Adobe Philanthropy Council: Supports nonprofit health and human service organizations which service disadvantaged youth, the homeless, minorities and victims of abuse; provide disaster relief, medical & hospice care, meal services; and organizations which support human rights. Also support the arts, environmental organizations, educational programs and animal rights.
Alliant Energy: Formerly Wisconsin Power and Light
The Alpha Charitable Foundation: A registered charity in Canada and the United States. Dedicated to helping the handicapped, the poor, the elderly, the children and the destitute.
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles: A private nonprofit institution endowed with Southern California's share of the surplus funds generated by 1984 Olympic Games. The AAF was established to manage that endowment for the benefit of youth sports throughout Southern California. The AAF has committed more than $60 million in behalf of its mission.
American Express: Through philanthropic activities worldwide, American Express seeks to be a good citizen in the communities in which we do business and where the Company's employees and advisors live and work. The company makes grants in three program areas: Community Service, Cultural Heritage, and Economic Independence.
BP Foundation (formerly BP Amoco Foundation)
AT&T Foundation
Autodesk Foundation
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation
Bank of America Corporation
Banker's Trust Foundation
BellSouth 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 Ben & Jerry's Foundation Offers competitive grants to not-for-profit organizations which facilitate progressive social change, by addressing the root causes of societal or environmental problems.
Burroughs Welcome Fund
The California Community Foundation: Administers charitable funds for individuals and others and makes grants to Los Angeles-area nonprofit organizations.
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.
Novartis Foundation for Cooperation with Developing Countries: Established in order to consolidate and reinforce the company contributions in the field of humanitarian assistance made independently of business activities.
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 Flinn Foundation:Formed to Improve the Quality of Life in Arizona. The Foundation support projects in health care and medical research, education, and the arts.
Foundation for Flagstaff Medical Center
The Foundation Center The Foundation Center is 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.
Freedom Forum International
J. Paul Getty Trust
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 Schoolhouse Foundation: Links children around the world. Since 1985 Global Schoolhouse Foundation, formerly Global SchoolNet (GSN), has been a leader in the instructional applications of telecommunications. Today the Global Schoolhouse Foundation is a major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom.
Verizon Foundation
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
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
HEI Charitable Foundation
Heinz Endowments
Hewlett Packard Company
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IBM Corporation
Intel Corporation
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.
The International Foundation for Science: Supports the research efforts of young scientists in developing countries.
Unites States--Japan Foundation
W. Alton Jones Foundation: Funds work focusing on global environmental protection and the prevention of nuclear war or other massive release of radioactive material.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation: Provides funds for direct care services and prevention education projects on a national basis.
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
Charles F. Kettering 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 the communications company founded by the Knight brothers publishes newspapers but is wholly separate from and independent of those newspapers.
Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
Edward Lowe Foundation "Championing the entreprenurial spirit"
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. Manitou Foundation
James S. McDonnell Foundation
The Medtronic Foundation
The Medina Foundation: Aids in improving the human condition in the greater Puget Sound community by fostering positive change, growth and the improvement of people. The Foundation operates by making grants to selected qualified charitable organizations rather than to public institutions.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation: Established in 1990 for the improvement of quality of life and the empowerment of disabled youth.
The National Organization for Rare Disorders
Naval War College Foundation
The New York Foundation for the Arts: A nonprofit arts service organization, one of the largest providers of grants and services to individual artists and their organizations in all artistic disciplines in the United States. Through its fellowships, residencies, sponsored projects, management services, loans, information and advocacy services, the Foundation works with artists and arts organizations throughout New York State and other parts of the country to bring the work of contemporary artists to the public.
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
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.
Rex Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A British Quaker trust, funds work on social justice and peace issues in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
Russell Sage Foundation
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.
Scholarship America : Awards merit-based scholarships to academically and creatively gifted college students.
Sierra Club Foundation Offers its services in receiving, administering, and disbursing funds for tax-exempt charitable, scientific, artistic, and educational purposes both to the Sierra Club and to other environmental endeavors.
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.
Sprint Corporation
Stern Family Fund
Sun Microsystems Community Development Grants Program
Texaco
The Century Foundation (formerly known as the Twentieth Century Fund)
United States Foundations and Fundraising Coalitions
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Weingart Foundation
Wellspring Foundation
Westinghouse Electric Company - Charitable Giving Program
The Windermere Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless families.
Whitaker Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation
Wray Charitable Trust
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation: Supports charitable works in the State of North Carolina. No other general purpose foundation in the country as large - approximately $300 million - has a mandate to make grants within a single state.

Regional Associations of Grant Makers

Council of Michigan Foundations
Delaware Valley Grantmakers
Donors Forum of Chicago
Indiana Grantmakers Alliance