How Much Foundations Plan to Give in 2003
March 6, 2003 | Read Time: 3 minutes
| 2003 budget | Percentage change from 2002 | |
| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) | $30,000,000 (A) | + 16.0% |
| James Graham Brown Foundation (Louisville, Ky.) | $17,000,000 (A) | + 13.8% |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) 1 | $31,669,364 (P) | + 0.6% |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York 2 | $84,600,000 (A) | – 44.0% |
| Amon G. Carter Foundation (Fort Worth) | $15,000,000 (A) | – 0.6% |
| Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa) 3 | $11,500,000 (P) | – 15.0% |
| Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) | $196,583,934 (A) | + 2.9% |
| Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.) 4 | $18,000,000 (A) | – 2.3% |
| Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York) 2 | $30,000,000 (A) | + 79.1% |
| Colorado Trust (Denver) | $14,799,677 (P) | + 5.6% |
| 2003 budget | Percentage change from 2002 | |
| Connelly Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.) | $10,000,000 (A) | – 9.1% |
| Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York) | $17,600,000 (A) | + 16.5% |
| Danforth Foundation (St. Louis) 5 | $40,000,000 (P) | – 1.0% |
| Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.) | $19,000,000 (A) | – 11.0% |
| Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.) | $13,600,000 (P) | + 10.7% |
| Educational Foundation of America (Westport, Conn.) | $11,000,000 (A) | + 0.8% |
| Ellison Medical Foundation (Bethesda, Md.) | $10,000,000 (A) | – 69.8% |
| Lettie Pate Evans Foundation (Atlanta) 6 | $5,900,000 (P) | + 1.2% |
| Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, Ore.) 7 | $10,000,000 (A) | – 24.8% |
| Frist Foundation (Nashville) | $8,000,000 (P) | – 30.4 |
| 2003 budget | Percentage change from 2002 | |
| Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (San Francisco) | $11,500,000 (A) | – 0.8% |
| John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) | $22,750,000 (P) | – 12.5% |
| Houston Endowment | $55,600,000 (A) | – 18.3% |
| Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita) | $15,145,000 (P) | + 10.0% |
| F.M. Kirby Foundation (Morristown, N.J.) | $19,000,000 (A) | – 3.9% |
| Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) | $5,000,000 (A) | – 70.2% |
| Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago) 8 | $95,200,000 (A) | – 0.1% |
| McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh) 2 | $22,500,000 (A) | – 17.8% |
| John Merck Fund (Boston) | $11,250,000 (P) | + 9.6% |
| Meyer Memorial Trust (Portland, Ore.) 7 | $21,000,000 (P) | + 10.5% |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) | $100,000,000 (A) | – 9.1% |
| 2003 budget | Percentage change from 2002 | |
| William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) | $69,000,000 (P) | + 6.7% |
| Public Welfare Foundation (Washington) 9 | $18,000,000 (A) | – 4.8% |
| Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) | $15,000,000 (A) | – 35.7% |
| Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, Conn.) | $14,870,000 (A) | – 26.2% |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York) | $20,600,000 (A) | + 12.0% |
| Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation (New York) 10 | $9,544,000 (A) | + 20.4% |
| Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.) 11/SUP> | $8,500,000 (A) | + 13.3% |
| Skillman Foundation (Detroit) | $18,000,000 (P) | – 6.1% |
| Soros foundations (New York) 12 | $450,000,000 (P) | 0.0 |
| Spencer Foundation (Chicago) 7 | $13,468,000 (A) | + 8.4% |
| 2003 budget | Percentage change from 2002 | |
| Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) | $15,000,000 (A) | – 6.7% |
| Surdna Foundation (New York)13 | $30,000,000 (A) | – 7.0% |
| DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund (New York) | $26,000,000 (P) | + 57.3% |
| Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund (New York) | $21,000,000 (P) | + 150.7% |
| Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, Md.) 14 | $100,000,000 (P) | 0.0 |
| Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation (Atlanta) 8 | $19,000,000 (P) | + 4.1% |
| Robert W. Woodruff Foundation (Atlanta) | $103,000,000 (P) | – 16.1% |
| Note: Foundations listed in this table provided specific figures for their grants budgets; the other 90 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal years ending December 31. (A) Budget for grants to be approved. (P) Budget for grants to be paid. 1. Fiscal year ends August 31. 2. Fiscal year ends September 30. 3. Fiscal year ends April 30. 4. Figures are for three separate foundations. 5. Fiscal year ends May 31. 6. Organization has applied to the Internal Revenue Service to change its tax status from a private foundation to a charity. 7. Figures are for the fiscal years ending March 31, 2002, and March 31, 2003. 8. Organization has applied to the Internal Revenue Service to change its tax status from a private foundation to a charity. 9. Fiscal year ends October 31. 10. Fiscal year ends July 31. 11. In 2001 the Charles and Helen Schwab Family Foundation merged with the Schwab Foundation for Learning to form the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. Fiscal year ends June 30. 2002 figures are for a 10-month period ending June 30, 2002. 12. Figures are for the philanthropic institutions financed by George Soros in more than 40 countries and include operating programs and administrative expenses. 13. Fiscal year ends June 30. 14. Figures are for the fiscal years ending February 28, 2002, and February 28, 2003. |
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