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Featured Tools from the Foundation Center

Foundation Time Slider (Now with 2009 data)

The Foundation Time Slider (now with 2009 data) visualizes the growth of foundations, their number, assets and giving since 1975.

Metro Area Funding by Foundations

Which foundations are giving in your metropolitan area? The Metro Area Funding tool visualizes foundation giving based on grantee and grantmaker location for selected metropolitan areas.

Key Statistics

Only 29% of U.S. foundations
reported having a web site, issuing publications or annual reports.
  76% of U.S. foundations
have 4 or fewer staff members.
 
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Trends in Foundation Philanthropy

Explore the Foundations Today Series

Expand your knowledge about foundation philanthropy with the Foundations Today Series, a unique collection of facts and figures on private and community foundations and their giving.

  • Foundation Giving Trends
    June 2010
  • Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates
    April 2010
  • Foundation Yearbook
    December 2010

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Top Ten Foundations by Assets

  1. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  2. Ford Foundation
  3. J. Paul Getty Trust
  4. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  5. W. K. Kellogg Foundation
  6. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  7. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  8. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  9. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  10. Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Learn About Philanthropy

Webinar: Foundations and Their Role in Philanthropy

Learn about foundations, their giving, and their role in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. View a recording or register for a live webinar»

Additional Learning Opportunities

Foundation Surveys

Access the results of foundation surveys by searching keywords such as management, grantmaking, investments, wages, or diversity.

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Trend Tracker

Visit Trend Tracker to chart and graph the assets, giving, gifts received and expenditures of a single foundation or compare up to five foundations at once.


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