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Grantmakers are an important audience for us, and the Foundation Center provides resources and services tailored to your special needs.
How Can We Help You?
We have answers to your questions about the services of the Foundation Center and how we can help your organization. Peruse our FAQs, submit a question to our Online Librarian, or consult one of our topical resource lists.
Help us to ensure that grantseekers are finding current information about your programs. We make it easy for you to update your record, create a web site, and inform the public about news, jobs, and grant opportunities.
Refer your grantees and applicants to us! We can help them improve their funding research and proposal writing skills, and identify alternate funding sources.
Are you new to the foundation world? Let us help you understand the basics of foundations, grants, and the 990-PF.
We have the latest research on U.S. foundations and their giving, white papers on best practices for grantmakers, and a catalog of online reports sponsored by foundations.
What's New
Scholarships Available for Foundation Center Training in More U.S. Cities
12/17/08
The Foundation Center is offering more scholarships to help under-resourced nonprofits build capacity and seek funding from foundations, corporations, and other institutional grantmakers. The scholarships will cover $100 of the fee for the Center’s full-day courses in nine U.S cities.
- Read the press release
Foundation Center Maps Philanthropy's Response to the Economic Crisis
12/04/08
The Center is collecting the most recent data available on U.S. foundation support in response to the economic crisis. Updated regularly, this information is publicly available in an interactive map launched today on the Center’s web site, displayed by state, county, city, ZIP code, or congressional district.
- Read the press release
- View the map
U.S. Foundation Giving for International Purposes Reaches Record Level
12/04/08
International Grantmaking IV: An Update on U.S. Foundation Trends, a new report prepared by the Foundation Center in cooperation with the Council on Foundations, finds that estimated U.S. foundation giving for international purposes reached a record $5.4 billion in 2007, and 2008 giving is likely to top that record.
- Read the press release
- View the highlights
- Order the report
Electronic Grants Initiative Boosts Transparency
11/17/08
Grantmakers nationwide are sending us their grants electronically, making the most current grants information available to anyone researching the field.
- Read the press release
- View a list of our electronic grant reporters»
Foundation Giving Priorities Remain Consistent During Economic Slowdowns, New Advisory Shows
11/11/08
A new Foundation Center research advisory suggests that grantmaking priorities in most areas do not shift suddenly in the face of reduced resources and are remarkably consistent over the long term.
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- Read the research advisory
Focus on the Economic Crisis
10/31/08
The Center's new Focus on the Economic Crisis feature provides online maps, news, and other resources to help nonprofits and foundations alike as they face the challenges of an unstable economy.
- Read the press release
- View Focus on the Economic Crisis
Foundation Center Releases Local Mission–Global Vision: Community Foundations in the 21st Century
10/20/08
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- Order the book
Past Economic Downturns and the Outlook
for Foundation Giving
10/14/08
The Center's senior director of research Steven Lawrence provides historical context by examining foundation giving trends in prior recessionary periods and times of economic distress.
- Read the press release
- Read the research advisory
Welcome to Our New President
10/01/08
The Foundation Center welcomes Bradford K. Smith as our new president, effective October 1. Most recently president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Smith brings decades of experience in the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world.
- View Bradford K. Smith's bio
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Use 990 Finder to look up the IRS returns of your applicants and grantees.
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It's a simple process to send us electronic grants lists, to make sure your most current grant information is readily available.
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Foundation Directory Online Updater
Help ensure that grantseekers are finding the most current information about your programs — and you'll receive a free subscription to Foundation Directory Online!
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Free Web Sites
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Our "Foundation Folders" program provides free web sites to foundations, to make information about their foundations more widely available.
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Best Practices for Grantmakers
Gain fresh perspectives and useful advice on core areas of foundation practice with Practice Matters: The Improving Philanthropy Project.
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