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Here is a list of some of our favorite foundation web sites. Please remember that this list is not comprehensive. Of course, we cannot vouch for the content on any site we do not maintain. At the time these sites were reviewed, they were functional and appeared useful and informative.
The Foundation Center's Foundation Finder
Use the Foundation Finder to search, by name, for basic information about foundations within the universe of more than 50,000 private and community foundations in the U.S. Or, you can browse the Grantmaker Info Directory, comprised of three broad categories:
- · links, both direct and annotated, to nearly 900 grantmaker web sites;
- · highlights and excerpts from the Center's research on foundation giving; and
- · a range of informational materials produced by individual foundations and hosted by the Center as part of its "Foundation Folder" program.
Foundations
The Aetna Foundation
The Aetna Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic organization funded by Aetna Inc.
Annenberg Foundation
The current grantmaking focus of this private foundation is on pre-collegiate education, specifically public school restructuring and reform, grades K through 12.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
In general, the grant making of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is limited to initiatives that have significant potential to demonstrate innovative policy, service delivery, and community supports for children and families. Most grantees have been invited by the Foundation to participate in these projects. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals, nor does it support capital projects that are not an integral part of a Foundation-supported initiative. Because its grant making seeks to benefit disadvantaged children and their families, the Foundation annually declines a very large number of otherwise worthy proposals that do not meet this objective.
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation is a national philanthropic organization. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide financial assistance to "certain educational, cultural, scientific and religious institutions" within the United States. The present practice of the Board of Trustees is to award primarily in the areas of private higher education, secondary education, graduate theological education, health care (caring attitudes) and public television.
Bank of America
Bank of America will invest $500 million in inner-city neighborhoods through the new Bank of America Catalyst Fund.
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
The goal of the national grant program is to develop and expand family literacy efforts nationwide, and to support the development of literacy programs that build families of readers. A total of $500,000 is awarded each year; no grant exceeds $50,000.
The Bradley Foundation
The Foundation's Board, on occasion, undertakes to define and redefine its current program interests. At present, the Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people.
The Coca-Cola Founation
The Coca-Cola Foundation is one way the company works to support education and advancement at the local level.
Compaq
Compaq is committed to being involved in the world in which it functions. This involvement is designed to achieve both business and social goals. Compaq believes these goals are compatible and that being a responsible corporate citizen makes good business sense.
The Danforth Foundation
The Danforth Foundation, established in 1927, is a national philanthropic organization, dedicated to enhancing the humane dimensions of life.
GE Fund
The GE Fund, the philanthropic foundation funded solely by the General Electric Company, is dedicatd to developing and supporting programs that are making a difference around the world.
Grater Kansas City Community Foundation
Nonprofit organziations to the Community Foundation for a wide range of services nad resources: including fuding for effective local projects thorugh competitive grand-making processes; manageing and administering endowments, project funds and scholarships; adn, providing the nonprofit database so interested donors become aware of investment opportunities.
IBM
IBM counts education as the top priority in its philanthropic efforts.
Jewish Heritage Foundation of Greater Kansas City
The Foundation's primary mission shall be to enhance health and human services within Greater Kansas City with a priority to serve the Jewish community.
The John Deere Foundation
The John Deere Foundation invests its resources in human services, community development, educational enterprises, and cultural opportunities.
Kansas Health Foundation
The Kansas Health Foundation’s grantmaking is based on a strategic plan and designed with input from the people of Kansas. The Foundation’s three primary funding categories are children's health, leadership, and public health.
Kauffman Foundation
The Kauffman Foundation strives to identify unfulfilled societal needs and to develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough solutions.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition.
MetLife
MetLife's longstanding commitment to strengthening the quality of education is underscored by its support of activities in precollege education, business, insurance and economic education, and higher education. Emphasis is placed on supporting programs that provide opportunities for minorities and youth, and on activities that include the classroom teacher in the school restructuring process.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the well-being of all people in the transition to global interdependence. On July 1, 1999, the RBF and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation merged. Under the name of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the major grantmaking programs of both foundations will be continued.
Sprint
The Sprint Foundation was established in 1989. It serves to extend the community leadership position of Sprint Corporation and the active participation of its employees in civic and charitable endeavors. The Sprint Foundation makes direct grants and also administers a matching gift program for Sprint employees and retirees. In 2000, Sprint Foundation grants totaled $8.2 million, including grants of more than $1.9 million to match employee contributions to education and cultural organizations.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's grants database is organized around the Foundation's programming interests -- Health; Food Systems and Rural Development; Youth and Education, and Higher Education; and Philanthropy and Volunteerism. Funding for Leadership; Information Systems/ Technology; Capitalizing on Diversity; and Social and Economic Community Development is woven throughout the above programming interests.
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