Ford Foundation Grants Database Apify Actor

What does Ford Foundation Grants Database Actor do?

This Actor exports the Ford Foundation's public awarded-grants database — over 5,600 grants totaling more than $3.3B awarded since 2006 — into clean, structured records. It reads grant amount, grantee organization, program area, topic, funding region, dates, and a direct source URL for every grant, straight from Ford's own public data (not a third-party aggregator). Run it on Apify with no login, scheduling, or proxy setup required.

Why use this Actor?

• Nonprofit prospect research — find which organizations a specific program area or region funds, and at what dollar amounts, to inform your own grant applications or partnership outreach.
• Philanthropy and market research — analyze Ford's giving patterns across program, topic, geography, and fiscal year without manually paging through the website.
• Journalism and accountability reporting — pull exact grant amounts, dates, and descriptions with a source URL for every record, ready to cite.
• Grant consultants — build a current, exportable reference of Ford's award history for client research, rather than re-scraping the site by hand for every engagement.

How to use Ford Foundation Grants Database Actor

1. Click Try for free (or Run) on this Actor's page.
2. Leave the default Start URL as-is — it points at Ford's full grants database and the Actor paginates through it automatically.
3. Set Max items to however many grant records you want (leave it high, e.g. 5000+, for a full export of the whole database).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Ford Foundation grants database URL(s). The default base URL is all you need — the Actor paginates internally.
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of grant records to scrape (default 100, max 10,000).

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/" }],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Output

Each item in the dataset looks like this:

{
  "grant_id": 149142,
  "grant_key": "149142-2",
  "grantee_id": 32023,
  "grantee_name": "Allied Media Projects, Inc.",
  "grantee_website_url": "www.alliedmedia.org",
  "grantee_url": "https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grantee/allied-media-projects-inc/",
  "grant_amount": 150000,
  "total_amount": 150000,
  "grant_description": "Core support for A People's Guide to Tech to produce materials and collaborative activities that support social justice movements in understanding how the internet and emerging technologies influence economies, relationships, and culture",
  "approval_date": "2026-01-21 00:00:00",
  "start_date": "2024-11-01 00:00:00",
  "end_date": "2026-10-31 00:00:00",
  "fiscal_year_of_approval": "2024",
  "grant_detail_url": "https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/allied-media-projects-inc-149142/",
  "benefiting_locations": "United States",
  "programs": "Technology and Society",
  "subjects": "Other, Technology",
  "regions": "United States",
  "grant_type": "Regular",
  "source_url": "https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/?page=1&per_page=100"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
grant_id	Ford Foundation internal grant ID
grant_key	Ford Foundation grant key (grant_id, sometimes with a renewal suffix)
grantee_id	Ford Foundation internal grantee/organization ID
grantee_name	Name of the grantee organization
grantee_website_url	Grantee's own external website, when published
grantee_url	Ford Foundation's profile page for the grantee
grant_amount	Dollar amount of this specific grant award
total_amount	Total cumulative amount across all installments of this grant
grant_description	Ford's description of what the grant funds
approval_date	Date the grant was approved
start_date / end_date	Grant period dates
fiscal_year_of_approval	Fiscal year the grant was approved in
grant_detail_url	Ford Foundation's page for this specific grant
benefiting_locations	Benefiting location name(s)
programs	Ford program area name(s)
subjects	Subject/topic name(s)
regions	Ford regional funding office name(s)
grant_type	Grant type (e.g. Regular, Social Bond)
source_url	The paginated database query URL this record was scraped from

Pricing / Cost estimation

Priced at $5.99 per 1,000 results. Each run is a lightweight paginated JSON fetch (up to 100 grants per page fetch), so cost scales predictably with maxItems:

Results	Estimated cost
100	$0.60
500	$3.00
1,000	$5.99
5,000	$29.95

A full database export (~5,662 grants) costs roughly $34.

Tips / Advanced options

• Leave maxItems at the default 100 for a quick sample; raise it to 10,000 for a full export.
• The Actor paginates at 100 results per page fetch internally — there's nothing to tune here for speed, since the database itself sets a 100/page cap.
• Ford's own facet filters (subject, program, region, amount range) are not usable via the startUrls query string — they're only applied by an authenticated route on Ford's own site. Filter or segment the exported dataset yourself after the run instead.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This Actor only scrapes publicly available grant records already published on Ford Foundation's own grants database page — no login, paywall, or private data is involved. Data reflects Ford's public grant history as of each run and may lag Ford's own site by the time between runs. Found an issue or want a related philanthropy dataset? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Store page.