Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-066425
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Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 8, 2025</div>

Registration No. 333-

<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FIRST FOUNDATION INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Delaware                                  |     |            20-8639702 |
| (State or other jurisdiction of           
 incorporation or organization)            |     |      -I.R.S. Employer 
 Identification Number |
| 5221 North O’Connor Boulevard, Suite 1375 
 Irving, Texas                             |     |                 75039 |
| (Address of principal executive offices)  |     |             -Zip Code |

<div align='center'>First Foundation Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of plan)

Erica Dorsett

Executive Vice President, General Counsel

First Foundation Inc.

5221 North O’Connor Boulevard, Suite 1375

Irving, Texas

(469) 638-9636

(Name, address, including
zip code, and telephone number, including area code of agent for service)

With copies to:

Joshua A. Dean, Esq.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

650 Town Center Drive, Tenth Floor

Costa Mesa, California 92626

(714) 513-5100</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company.
See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,”
and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer | ¨ | Accelerated filer         | x |
| Non-accelerated filer   | ¨ | Smaller reporting company | ¨ |
|                         |   | Emerging growth company   | ¨ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the