Grantmakers created the Foundation Center more than 50 years ago to advance knowledge about U.S. philanthropy.  Some 600 foundations and corporations support our work in recognition of its value to them and to the organizations they care about.  We hope that you will join them.  Gift support makes possible a variety of free resources and services for the nonprofit community. 

Nonprofit organizations rely on the Foundation Center’s funding research tools and training to help them find support for their work.  Grantmakers, journalists, policymakers, and others who are interested in philanthropy also look to us for facts and analysis to shed light on topics of interest.  Some of our most important resources and services include our online and print directories of grantmakers and their grants; classroom and online training in fundraising; Philanthropy News Digest, which provides news stories, commentary, and interviews with leaders in the field; and research studies and online data tables that track giving trends. 

People get free access to the Foundation Center’s growing array of information resources, tools, and training when they visit our library/learning centers in New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as hundreds of Cooperating Collections nationwide.  Our web site receives over 46,000 visits daily and provides people around the world with 24/7 access to our information, research, news coverage, and e-learning programs, most of it for free.  Some Foundation Center donors make designated gifts to support the free resources and services we provide online.

To learn more, download flyers (PDF) about our services for grantmakers and grantseekers.

For information on becoming a Foundation Center donor, contact Alyson Tufts, vice president for development, at (212) 807-3624.

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