Pud... How big do you think the Ford family trust would have to be worth to generate an income for four families? Pretty large, by my guess, especially if you reinvest part of the annual return so that principle doesn't devalue with inflation. Suppose the trust kicks off an average 7% annual return, which is pretty good. If you subtract two points to reinvest for inflation, you're left with 5% to distribute. If the fund is worth $10 million, that would give the Ford family $500,000 to distribute in pre-tax income (nice, but not extravagant). But does Deco make the kind of money that would allow Doug Sr. to have built up that kind of nest egg? Sounds like a bit of a stretch to me. At very least, it would have taken many years to build up that kind of wealth.
