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• - Pacific Northwest. Major emphases are education and scientific research. Includes grant guidelines, list of recent recipients, and financial information for the trust.
  
• - Devoted to helping disadvantaged children, their families, and their neighborhoods.
  
• - Gives to open spaces, sacred places and community greening projects that nurture the human spirit and foster a sense of community in greater Washington, D.C., Annapolis, Maryland, and Baltimore, Maryland.
  
• - Education, health, human services, and the arts, in Texas. Provides foundation history, information on application process, and reports on education in the state.
  
• - Funds private higher education institutions and social service and health related nonprofits. Includes previous recipients, application guidelines, and foundation history.
  
• - Various programs including prevention of cruelty to animals. Provides program information, grant application on-line, and evaluation tools. Giving limited to Bandera, Bexar, Comal, and Kendall counties in Texas.
  
• - Educating the national community to the dangers of family violence, and funding support groups.
  
• - Focuses on Baltimore, Maryland, in the areas of Jewish community services, fragile families, and nonprofit infrastructure. Describes history and grant application process.
  
• - Dedicated to funding community organizations that serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied communities of the upper midwest.
  
• - Funds efforts to assist parents, caregivers and youth be active, engaged, and empowered members of society. Describes priorities and approach, lists current grantees, and offers research and evaluation resources.
  
• - Established to serve the needy, the less fortunate, and those requiring assistance; to take care of their immediate needs; and then to help them get back on their feet and become productive members of society. Its main focus is in San Francisco Bay Area,
  
• - Nonprofit organization that provides financial support grants to civic and community organizations, schools and volunteer groups for Chesapeake Bay restoration and education projects in Maryland.
  
• - Illinois. Describes grant programs focused on Elgin and on the state, with history of the organization.
  
• - Baltimore, Maryland. About the endowment, programs funded, publications and research, special programs, news and contact information.
  
• - makes grants "to build the capacity of communities, organizations, and individuals" throughout the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
  
• - For issues related to older people in the US. Contains information about types of projects funded, news and publications.
  
• - The mission of the foundation is to be an accessible and responsible financial resource to aid in the development and cohesion of communities within the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Montana, with preference given to those communities
  
• - Gives small awards to girls and to organizations which support them in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
• - Equips high-risk women and children with life skills. Gives list of board members, current grantees, and application guidelines.
  
• - Mission is to facilitate networks of people and organizations that work towards economic, environmental, educational, cultural, and social equality and justice.
  
• - Supports programs that meet social and community needs for tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations in the towns of Seymour, Oxford, Beacon Falls, Ansonia and Derby. Presents previous recipients, application guidlines, submission requirements, and geographic f
  
• - The foundation's grantmaking is focused primarily on the areas of medical research, science, and engineering. The foundation also maintains a program for liberal arts colleges and a Southern California Grant Program that provides support in the areas of c
  
• - Funds projects that accomplish systemic reform and have North Carolina-wide impact. Features history, focus areas, awards information, application guidelines.
  
• - US. Annual Report with grant application guidelines and procedures.
  
• - Founded with the proceeds from the sale of Chicago's Ridgeway Hospital, a nonprofit psychiatric facility focusing on low-income adolescents. One of its primary funding areas is the support of nonprofit agencies which provide medical, psychiatric and psych
  
• - Adresses basic human needs, the environment, and cultural enrichment, primarily in Texas. Describe current programs and funding priorities, with financial and staff information.
  
• - The foundation furthers the charitable purposes of its founder, Elizabeth Bingham Blossom, in the fields of education, health and human services, science, and the arts; seeks to strengthen civil society and its institutions; works for a world that is envi
  
• - Supports education, community service and the arts, primarily in Houston and Texas. Provides annual report and funding criteria.
  
• - The foundation's programs and interests fall into the following areas: science and technology, standard of living and economic performance, education and careers in science and technology, and selected national issues and civic programs.
  
• - Funds education, medical and scientific research, and youth programs, primarily in Iowa and Illinois. Describes history, specific funding interests, and application process.
  
• - Minnesota foundation working to strengthen communities, families and individuals. Provides news items, application details, entities funded, and current issues.
  
• - Describes program goals and grant application process. Focus areas are youth, education, environment, and stewardship.
  
• - Purpose is to provide for the intellectual, moral and physical welfare of the people of this country by establishing and supporting non-profit libraries, educational institutions, hospitals and clinics.
  
• - Nonprofit, independent national research institute committed to basic empirical research on law and legal institutions.
  
• - Makes grants to nonprofit agencies serving Southern California, particularly the San Gabriel Valley and East Los Angeles, in the areas of arts and culture, civic and community services, education, community-based health programs, and the advancement of kn
  
• - Supports community based organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Includes grant resources, application, and contact information.
  
• - Concentrates its grant program in New York City with occasional grants directed to northern New Jersey in memory of the Bodmans.
  
• - Established in 1996 through a provision of the artist's Last Will and Testament to give grants to individual artists.
  
• - Promotes and enhances the health and wellness of Howard County, Maryland. Includes foundation information, mission, grants, news, initiatives, and publications.
  
• - Charitable foundation supporting arts, children, youth, rural and intercultural issues.
  
• - Private non-profit federation of sixty-one national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its constitution, is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the Humanities and the related social sciences and
  
• - The foundation supports programs that encourage youth to dream big dreams, engage the community in helping youngsters pursue their goals, and ensure young people's access to developmental opportunities in society.
  
• - Preservation information, features, events and activism for America's historic places.
  
• - Supports public education programs in Massachusetts related to design and the built environment; includes grant application and list of past recipients.
  
• - The foundation's general purpose is to provide support for projects that reflect or are intended to strengthen the economic, political and cultural institutions upon which the American heritage of constitutional government and private enterprise is based.
  
• - Supports various needy charitable, educational, health services and cultural organizations, mainly in Florida.
  
• - Offers grant programs for social justice organizations located in Northern California or the Central Valley. Downloadable guidelines, applications, and reporting forms.
  
• - Concentrates on assisting people in the southern United States to build communities - just and caring communities - that nurture people, spur enterprise, bridge differences, foster fairness and promote civility.
  
• - Promotes change by funding and supporting small and/or emerging community-led grassroots organizations working for social, economic and environmental justice in San Diego County and the Tijuana, Mexico border region.
  
• - National grants in the areas of journalism, aging care, and cardiovascular research, as well as special regional initiatives. Provides application guidelines, current financial report and list of grantees, and history of founder.
  
• - Supporting programs that help children develop by improving educational opportunities, supporting community efforts, and strengthening families.
  
• - Considers grant applications from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and allied organizations in non-urban areas, as well as HIV/AIDS organizations and Colorado cultural groups.
  
• - Pet industry body: to help promote public understanding regarding the value of and right to enjoy companion animals, and to enhance knowledge about companion animals through research and education.
  
• - Committed to the same fundamental values that guided the founders' lives: encouraging individual growth and potential; improving the quality of people's lives; maintaining and nurturing our democratic traditions; ensuring an educated and engaged citizenry
  
• - Funds Baltimore-area nonprofits, including capital campaigns and operating expenses. Describes application process, and lists previous recipients.
  
• - Environmental and economic development issues in the Great Lakes area, as well as campaign finance reform. Provides information about each program area.
  
• - For more than 30 years, Resist has funded progressive organizations in the United States that are actively part of a movement for social change.
  
• - Areas of support have focused on education and mentorship, but have also been awarded in entrepreneurship, healthcare and the arts, predominantly in Massachusetts. Provides information on history and recent years' grantees.
  
• - Supports African American community revitalization, education, and leadership development. Gives application guidelines and list of former grantees.
  
• - Focuses on unique medical/dental health issues. Includes how to give, and self evaluations of nonprofit boards of directors.
  
• - Promotes projects and services that enhance the lives of marginalized and at-risk women and girls in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Describes their grant process, and offers examples of fundable programs.
  
• - The Foundation allocates its resources to two primary projects: the Bonner Scholars Program, a community service scholarship program supporting 1500 students at 24 colleges and universities; and the Crisis Ministry Program, which supports faith-based anti
  
• - San Diego. Presents guiding principles, funding and submission guidelines, and general information regarding the foundation.
  
• - Located near Washington, D.C. Purpose is to restore, maintain, and extend our heritage of people making peoples' lives more meaningful. "We have the resources and industry experience to give you a sustainable advantage in setting up your foundation.&
  
• - Private family foundation which supports corporations, trusts, community chests (united ways), funds or foundations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruel
  
• - A partnership of donors and activitists committed to supporting social change in the Delaware Valley.