New Financial Data on Grant Makers and Rankings of Foundations
April 22, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Foundation Center has issued the 1999 edition of The Foundation Directory,
ALSO SEE:
Financial Data by Type of Foundation and by Region
100 Largest Foundations by Assets
which provides information on 10,445 foundations. In most cases, data are for fiscal years ending in 1997.
Sixty-nine of the 2,181 foundations that are new to the list hold assets of $20-million or more. The biggest of those is the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in New York. With more than $1.3-billion in assets in 1997, it placed No. 29 on the list of the wealthiest grant makers.
Together, the foundations in the directory have more than $304-billion in assets and give away more than $14.3-billion in grants each year.
Copies are available from the Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York 10003; (212) 807-3690 or (800) 424-9836. An order form is also available on the center’s Web site, http://fdncenter.org. The price is $185 in paperback and $215 in hardcover, plus $4.50 for shipping and orders must be prepaid.
