A. Foundation Sections
B. Foundations Information & Catalogues
Council on Foundations
COF is a nonprofit membership association of grantmaking foundations or corporations. It provides programs and services to assist grantmakers in achieving their charitable goals.
The Foundation Center
The Center collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates information on foundations to foster public understanding of the foundation field.
C. Broad Interest Foundations
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Provides fellowships for advance professionals in all fields, including natural science, social science, humanities, and creating arts, but excluding performing arts.
The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
Supports educational and research projects and programs which seek to improve the balance between the natural environment and technology.
James S. McDonnel Foundation
Funds work in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, research and innovation in education, and global understanding.
D. Scientific and Technical Foundations
Alzheimer's Association
The Alheimer'sAssociation focusses on the causes, prevention, pharmacological and behavioral treatment, and investigation of the impact of social, behavioral, economic, and environmental factors.
American Chemical Society
The petrolium Research fund supports advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petrolium field, including pure science with potential for future applicaiton to petrolium research.
American Diabetes Association
Funds research, publishes scientific findings, and provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health care professionals, and the public.
American Health Assistance Foundation
This foundation funds research, educates, and provides emergency financial assistance to those effected by age related degenerative diseases.
Electric Power Research Institute
Develops innovative solutions to the generation, delivery, and use of electricity that is affordable, efficient, and environmentally sound.
Gas Research Institute
Seeks to enhance the value of gas energy through the development and application of new technologies.
Research Corporation
Research Corporation supports research in astronomy, chemistry and physics at public and private, predominantly undergraduate colleges.
E. Arts and Humanities Foundations
American Council of Learned Societies: Supports the humanities through grants and fellowships.
J. Paul Getty Trust
Dedicated to the support of the visual arts and humanities through conservation, scholarship and education in the visual arts.
F. Communications
Benton Foundation
This foundation promotes communications tools, applications, and policies in the public interest through leadership, brokerage, and exploration in the realm of communications technologies and stratagies.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CPB develops public telecommunication services through the cultivation and funding of public broadcasting.
Freedom Forum
Provides support for journalism education and programs that enhance diversity and the advancement of women.
G. Education
Council for International Exchange of Scholars/Fulbright Program: Provide a wide variety of fellowships in all disciplines through the Fullbright Scholars Program.
H. Health and Human Services
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Provides grant programs in health education and operating programs of awards and public affairs.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Seeks to improve health and health care in the US by assuring health care for all, improving services, reducing the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicite drugs, and address health care expenditures.
I. Other Non-technical
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Makes grants to support efforts in the areas of sustainable resource use and world security in order to fulfill its objective of improving the well-being of all people.
Russell Sage Foundation
A research center, funding source, and publisher dedicated exclusivelly to research in the social sciences.
Surdna Foundation
Makes grants in the areas in the environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, and a small program in the arts.
United States-Japan Foundation
Focuses grantmaking in precollege education and policy studies in order to promote greater knowledge between the US and Japan and to contribute to the understanding of public policy issues of interest to both countries.
