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Foundation Giving

Size Of Median Grants at Big Foundations

February 22, 2001 | Read Time: 4 minutes

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From the issue dated Thursday, February 22, 2001

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2000 1999
Abell Foundation (Baltimore) $250,000 $250,000
Ahmanson Foundation (Beverly Hills, Calif.) 1 $93,791 $97,671
The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundations (Bellevue, Wash.) $20,000 $122,000
Altman Foundation (New York) $55,632 n/a
Annenberg Foundation (St. Davids, Pa.) 2 $5,000 $5,000
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Irvine, Calif.) 3 n/a $200,000
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh) $50,000 n/a
H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation (Palm Desert, Calif.) $70,000 $60,000
Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.) $31,500 n/a
Booth Ferris Foundation (New York) $100,000 $100,000
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) $30,000 $30,000
Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul) $20,486 n/a
James Graham Brown Foundation (Louisville, Ky.) n/a $430,000
Buffett Foundation (Omaha) 2 n/a $200,000
Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) $30,000 $30,000
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) 3 $19,275 $13,679
2000 1999
Bush Foundation (St. Paul) 4 $100,000 $75,000
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Washington) 5 $25,000 $25,000
California Endowment (Woodland Hills, Calif.) 6 n/a $212,000
California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) 2 $50,000 $35,000
Carnegie Corporation of New York 7 $250,000 $200,000
Amon G. Carter Foundation (Fort Worth) $34,570 $34,298
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa) 5 $40,000 $40,000
Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) n/a $80,000
Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.) $50,000 $50,000
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York) 7 $115,000 $148,000
Colorado Trust (Denver) n/a $100,000
Commonwealth Fund (New York) 2 $25,000 $25,000
Connelly Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.) $7,775 $10,000
Cullen Foundation (Houston) $250,000 $250,000
Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York) $60,000 n/a
Danforth Foundation (St. Louis) 8 $175,000 $270,000
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (Jacksonville, Fla.) $175,000 $175,000
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.) $50,000 n/a
2000 1999
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) $750,000 $600,000
Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1 $140,000 $125,000
Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.) $24,000 n/a
Educational Foundation of America (Westport, Conn.) $80,000 $70,000
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation (Atlanta) $500,000 n/a
Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, Ore.) 9 $60,000 $75,000
Ford Foundation (New York) 7 $120,000 $100,000
France-Merrick Foundation (Baltimore) 8 $100,000 $100,000
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund (San Francisco), $10,000 $10,000
Grable Foundation (Pittsburgh) $20,000 n/a
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund (San Francisco) $25,000 $20,000
Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (San Francisco) $48,383 $42,594
Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) n/a $150,000
John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) $546,446 $415,200
William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York) $100,000 $75,000
Hearst Foundation (New York) $50,000 $50,000
Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh) $75,000 $140,000
F.B. Heron Foundation (New York) $50,000 $50,000
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) $266,623 $215,000
2000 1999
James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco) $200,000 $175,000
J. Seward Johnson, Sr. Charitable Trust (Princeton, N.J.) n/a $25,000
W. Alton Jones Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.) $50,000 $75,000
Joyce Foundation (Chicago) $150,000 $150,965
Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita) n/a $15,000
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) 2 $20,000 $20,000
W.M. Keck Foundation (Los Angeles) $784,000 $1,000,000
William T. Kemper Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) 1 $59,369 n/a
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami) $100,000 $75,000
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) $150,000 $40,000
Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.) $10,000 $25,000
Libra Foundation (Portland, Me.) $15,000 $12,000
Longwood Foundation (Wilmington, Del.) 7 $338,752 $306,000
Henry Luce Foundation (New York) $300,000 $250,000
J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation (Tulsa, Okla.) 3 $444,000 $381,000
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) $75,000 $50,000
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago) $62,000 $60,000
McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh) 7 $125,000 $100,000
2000 1999
James S. McDonnell Foundation (St. Louis) $149,908 $99,790
McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) $70,000 $60,000
Meadows Foundation (Dallas) $81,000 $69,163
Meyer Memorial Trust (Portland, Ore.) 9 $141,000 n/a
Moody Foundation (Galveston, Tex.) $25,000 $25,000
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) $100,000 $100,000
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (Vancouver, Wash.) $100,000 $100,000
Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.) $39,000 $45,000
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.) 1 $20,000 $40,000
Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul) 9 $35,000 $57,925
John M. Olin Foundation (New York) $100,000 $100,000
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) $80,000 $75,000
Park Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.) $15,000 $15,000
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation (Los Angeles) $86,000 $88,000
William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) $82,500 $82,500
Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia) $200,000 $400,000
Polk Brothers Foundation (Chicago) 3 $50,000 $35,000
Public Welfare Foundation (Washington) 1 $30,000 $30,000
2000 1999
Publix Super Markets Charities (Lakeland, Fla.) $7,500 $7,500
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis) $112,000 $124,000
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation (Las Vegas)10 n/a $20,000
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 3 $64,390 $100,000
Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, Conn.) $75,000 $91,000
Sid W. Richardson Foundation (Fort Worth) $150,000 $150,000
Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York) n/a $100,000
Skillman Foundation (Detroit) $100,000 $100,000
Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) $84,761 $75,000
Surdna Foundation (New York) 2 $82,000 $79,000
John Templeton Foundation (Radnor, Pa.) $85,000 $100,000
Turner Foundation (Atlanta) $45,000 $43,000
Wayne & Gladys Valley Foundation (Oakland, Calif.) 7 $25,000 $25,000
Robert A. Welch Foundation (Houston) 3 $45,000 $45,000
Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.) n/a $324,628
Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation (Atlanta) $250,000 n/a
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation (Atlanta) $300,000 n/a
Note: Foundations listed in this table provided figures for median grants for the 2000 and 1999 fiscal years; the other 36 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. The median figure shows the middle point in grant making, at which half the foundation’s awards were larger and half smaller. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal years ending December 31.
n/a Not available.
1. Fiscal year ends October 31.
2. Fiscal year ends June 30.
3. Fiscal year ends August 31.
4. Fiscal year ends November 30.
5. Fiscal year ends April 30.
6. Figures are for the fiscal years ending February 29, 2000, and February 28, 2001.
7. Fiscal year ends September 30.
8. Fiscal year ends May 31.
9. Figures are for the fiscal years ending March 31, 2000, and March 31, 2001.
10. Changed end of fiscal year in 1999 from June 30 to December 31. Figures for 1999 are for the fiscal year July 1, 1998, to June 30, 1999.

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