Action Without Borders

Art Matters: One of the few private foundations in the country devoted to providing direct support to contemporary artists. Since 1985, it has awarded nearly $3 million in fellowships to some 3,000 individuals.

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation

The Benton Foundation: The foundation's Communications Policy Project promotes public interest values and noncommercial services for the National Information Infrastructure through research, policy analysis, print, video, online publishing, and outreach to nonprofits and foundations.

Benton Foundation Kid's Campaign

The Big Ben Foundation: Aims to provide other Non-profit community-based organizations with supplemental funding so they maintain existing programs and provide new and better services for their local communities.

The Careth Foundation: Seeks to promote a compassionate world of enduring peace, with justice, and with social, economic, and political equality for all.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Supports education and health development of children and youth; preventing deadly conflict; strengthening human resources in developing countries; and special projects (technology, voting rights, etc.)

The Charles Dana Foundation: A private philanthropic foundation with principal interests in health and education.

The Commonwealth Fund: A philanthropic foundation established in 1918 by Anna M. Harkness with the broad charge to enhance the common good. In 1986, the Fund was given the assets of the James Picker Foundation, in support of Picker programs to advance the Fund's mission. The Fund's current four national program areas are improving health care services, bettering the health of minority Americans, advancing the well-being of elderly people, and developing the capacities of children and young people. In all its national programs the Fund emphasizes prevention and promoting healthy behavior.

The Foundation Center: An independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established in 1956. The Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving and related subjects. The audiences that call on the Center's resources include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media and the general public.

J. Paul Getty Trust: offers people opportunities to more fully understand, experience, value and preserve the world's artistic and cultural heritage through a museum, five institutes and a grant program.

The Paul F. Glenn Foundation for Medical Research: Supports research on the mechanisms of biological aging. A good source for aging research links.

The Global SchoolNet Foundation: Links children around the world. Since 1985 Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) has been a leader in the instructional applications of telecommunications. Today the Global SchoolNet Foundation is a major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom.

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students.

Gunk Foundation

HEI Charitable Foundation

Heinz Endowments

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Humboldt Area Foundation

The Irvine Health Foundation: Provides sponsorship, promotion and support for educational, research and service activities related to health and health care in the Orange County, California community.

Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

W. Alton Jones Foundation: Funds work focusing on global environmental protection and the prevention of nuclear war or other massive release of radioactive material.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: Devoted exclusively to health, the now has assets of approximately $440 million. The Foundation's work is focuses on four main areas: health policy, reproductive health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. The Foundation also maintains a special interest in health policy and innovation in its home state of California. It is not associated with Kaiser hospitals or the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: Established in 1950, the Knight Foundation makes national grants in journalism, education, and the field of arts and culture. It also supports organizations in 27 communities where Knight-Ridder Inc. publishes newspapers but is wholly separate from and independent of those newspapers.

Edward Lowe Foundation

The George Lucas Educational Foundation: Established to facilitate the innovative uses of multimedia technologies to enhance teaching and learning.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Dedicated to helping groups and individuals to improve the human condition.

Make a Wish Foundation: Helps grant wishes to terminally-ill children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 18.

James S. McDonnell Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Naval War College Foundation

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is the oldest mid-career fellowship program for journalists in the world. They are awarded to working journalists of particular accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study.

Open Society Institute, one of the Soros organizations.

The Ottinger Foundation is a private family foundation that supports organizations promoting democratic participation, economic justice, environmental preservation, and energy conservation.

David and Lucille Packard Foundation

The Pew Charitable Trusts: Encourages individual development and personal achievement, cross-disciplinary problem solving and innovative, practical approaches to meeting the changing needs of a global community. Each year, the Trusts make grants of about $180 million to between 400 and 500 nonprofit organizations.

The Rotary Foundation: Rotary International provides humanitarian grants which improve the quality of life throughout the world; and sponsors international ambassadors of goodwill through educational awards to university students and teachers and through international exchanges of business and professional people. These programs are all directed toward furthering understanding and friendly relations among the world's people.

Sabre Foundation Inc.: Devoted to the philosophy and practice of free institutions. Its projects in recent years have focused on book donation, education, private sector development, and higher learning, primarily in Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Supports programs primarily in four areas: Science and Technology; Standard of Living, Competitiveness, and Economics; Education and Careers in Science and Technology; and Selected National Issues.

Twentieth Century Fund

United States--Japan Foundation

Weingart Foundation

Wellspring Foundation

Whitaker Foundation

Wilburforce Foundation

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation: Supports charitable works in the State of North Carolina. No other general purpose foundation in the country with a mandate to make grants within a single state is as large - approximately $300 million.

Regional Associations of Grant Makers

Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts