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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 submit your grants electronically, 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
New Report: Accelerating Change for Women and Girls: The Role of Women's Funds6/23/09
Foundation giving targeted to benefit women and girls has surpassed the rate of overall foundation giving in recent years, and women's funds are a rapidly growing and influential force in philanthropy, according to a new report released today by the Foundation Center and the Women's Funding Network. This study was made possible in part by support from The Wallace Foundation.
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- Download the Highlights Free
- Order the report
Foundation Center and Library of Congress Release New Funding Guide for Preserving Historical, Cultural Collections 6/08/09
Just released, the second edition of Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is designed to help the preservation community ensure that the nation’s at-risk historical and cultural artifacts in libraries, archives, and museums are saved for future generations.
- Read the press release
- Download the Guide
Focus on Funding for Education in June6/01/09
Throughout June, the Foundation Center is offering free events, classes, and online resources designed to help nonprofits and scholarship seekers become more effective grantseekers and find new funding prospects.
- Read the press release
- Visit Focus on Funding for Education
Community Foundation Giving Increased 6.7 Percent in 2008 Despite Economy,
New Foundation Center Report Finds
5/28/09
Community foundations raised their giving by an estimated 6.7 percent in 2008 to a record $4.6 billion, according to our new report, Key Facts on Community Foundations, 2009 ed. However, these foundations will undoubtedly have to reduce giving in 2009.
- Read the press release
- Download the report Free
Foundation Center Partners With Grantmakers for Effective Organizations to Offer Members New Philanthropy In/SightTM Mapping Tool5/18/09
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) will serve as the Center’s exclusive beta site for its new mapping tool, Philanthropy In/SightTM, leading up to the product's release later this spring. Philanthropy In/Sight is a next-generation mapping application that uses Google maps to plot the location of foundations and their grantees, providing grantmakers with tools to be more strategic and increase the impact of their grantmaking.
- Read the press release
New Report Shows Corporate Foundation Giving Remained Flat in 2008, Declines Expected in 2009
5/11/09
Charitable giving by the nation's nearly 2,500 corporate foundations totaled an estimated $4.4 billion in 2008, according to Key Facts on Corporate Foundations. Fifty-one percent of the foundations responding to the Center's survey said they expect to reduce giving in 2009.
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- Download the report Free
New Foundation Center Map Guides Nonprofits to Stimulus Dollars and Other Resources
5/5/09
 The Center's new MapShot: Best ARRA Funding Resources by State displays funding opportunities and other information on how nonprofits may be able to access stimulus package funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Read the press release
- View the map
Foundation Center Issues New Report, Perpetuity or Limited Lifespan: How Do Family Foundations Decide?
4/30/09
 While existing in perpetuity is the norm for the majority of family foundations, more than a third are either uncertain about lifespan or expect to limit their lifespan, according to the first large-scale study of family foundation lifespan plans, jointly released by the Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations.
- Read the press release
- Download the Highlights
- Download the report Free
Foundation Center Provides Research for Global Philanthropy Forum
4/28/09
At the recent Global Philanthropy Forum conference, the Foundation Center provided the information platform for its five key issues: poverty at home and abroad, access to health care, access to education, global climate change, and reconstruction and reconciliation in post-conflict countries.
- Learn about the issues
Foundation Center Expands Resources for Spanish-language Grantseeekers
4/23/09
At a time when nonprofit organizations are being hard hit by an economy in crisis, the Foundation Center is extending its reach to Spanish-speaking grantseekers and nonprofits serving Latino communities.
- Read the press release
Close to Two-thirds of Foundations Expect to Reduce Their Grants in 2009
4/20/09
A new Foundation Center research advisory, Foundations Address the Impact of the Economic Crisis, examines how U.S. foundations are coping with the crisis, based on recent survey responses of more than 1,200 U.S. foundations.
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- Read the research advisory
- Download a print version of the research advisory
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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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