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How Much Foundations Plan to Give in 2000

February 24, 2000 | Read Time: 3 minutes

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From the issue dated Thursday, February 24, 2000

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2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Annenberg Foundation (St. Davids, Pa.)1 $150,000,000 (P) +27.0%
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) $41,000,000 (A) +15.7%
James Graham Brown Foundation (Louisville, Ky.) $21,000,000 (A) +13.3%
Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) $13,600,000 (A) +50.7%
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)2 $38,504,000 (A) -0.4%
California Endowment (Woodland Hills)3 $200,000,000 (A) 0.0%
California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland)3 $36,000,000 (P) +12.5%
Carnegie Corporation of New York4 $65,000,000 (A) +16.6%
Amon G. Carter Foundation (Fort Worth) $10,750,000 (A) +19.8%
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa)5 $12,479,246 (A) -20.2%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) $127,537,000 (A) +19.0%
Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.) $23,000,000 (A) +0.9%
China Medical Board of New York1 $10,000,000 (A) +19.4%
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York)4 $27,000,000 (A) +18.8%
Commonwealth Fund (New York)1 $20,921,273 (A) +29.1%
Connelly Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.) $17,000,000 (P) 0.0%
Cullen Foundation (Houston) $7,000,000 (A) +4.2%
Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York) $19,516,700 (A) -8.5%
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.) $18,900,000 (A) -3.0%
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) $56,290,000 (A) +9.9%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.)6 $17,500,000 (A) +11.4%
Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.) $14,500,000 (P) +25.1%
Ford Foundation (New York)4 $635,000,000 (A) +18.9%
France-Merrick Foundation (Baltimore)7 $8,000,000 (A) +6.7%
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) $1,000,000,000 (A) -58.3%
William T. Grant Foundation (New York) $11,021,618 (A) +16.0%
Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (San Francisco) $11,016,000 (A) +6.9%
Walter and Elise Haas Fund (San Francisco) $9,000,000 (A) +16.8%
Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) $31,000,000 (P) +51.8%
John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) $43,869,000 (A) +145.7%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Charles Hayden Foundation (New York)1 $15,000,000 (A) +7.1%
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) $121,700,000 (A) +34.3%
Houston Endowment $62,600,000 (A) +22.3%
James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco) $54,000,000 (A) +9.6%
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) $425,000,000 (A) +1.0%
Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita) $21,150,000 (P) +4.1%
Koret Foundation (San Francisco) $12,000,000 (A) -62.7%
Kresge Foundation (Troy, Mich.) $119,000,000 (A) +8.1%
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) $13,000,000 (A) -36.9%
Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.) $12,000,000 (A) -19.3%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) $177,200,000 (A) +2.4%
McConnell Foundation (Redding, Calif.) $7,500,000 (A) -19.9%
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago) $107,200,000 (A) -9.9%
McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh)4 $28,000,000 (A) -21.5%
James S. McDonnell Foundation (St. Louis) $17,284,216 (P) -5.7%
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York) $170,000,000 (A) +8.9%
Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation (New York) $3,500,000 (A) -75.1%
Moody Foundation (Galveston, Tex.) $5,000,000 (A) +156.7%
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) $115,000,000 (A) +0.9%
Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.) $7,000,000 (A) +40.0%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.)6 $15,000,000 (P) -26.3%
John M. Olin Foundation (New York) $19,000,000 (P) -1.9%
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) $500,000,000 (A) +8.4%
Park Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.) $27,000,000 (A) -31.1%
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation (Los Angeles) $17,350,000 (P) +10.0%
William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) $56,000,000 (P) +12.0%
Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia) $250,000,000 (A) -0.1%
Public Welfare Foundation (Washington)6 $18,500,000 (A) -5.2%
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis) $16,200,000 (A) +22.1%
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) $10,000,000 (A) -62.3%
2000 budget Percentage change
from 1999
Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, Conn.) $21,620,000 (A) +9.1%
Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York) $26,025,000 (P) +28.9%
Dr. Scholl Foundation (Chicago) $11,500,000 (A) -0.3%
Spencer Foundation (Chicago)8 $34,000,000 (A) +13.3%
Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) $17,000,000 (A) +21.4%
Surdna Foundation (New York) $30,830,000 (A) +6.6%
T.L.L. Temple Foundation (Lufkin, Tex.)9 $16,000,000 (P) +36.6%
Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.) $100,000,000 (A) +68.7%
Note: Foundations listed in this table provided specific figures for their grants budgets; the other 78 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal year ending December 31.
n/a Not available.

(A) Budget for grants to be approved.

(P) Budget for grants to be paid.

1 Fiscal year ends June 30.
2 Fiscal year ends August 31.
3 Fiscal year ends last day of February in the subsequent calendar year.
4 Fiscal year ends September 30.
5 Fiscal year ends April 30.
6 Fiscal year ends October 31.
7 Fiscal year ends May 31.
8 Fiscal year ends March 31 in the subsequent calendar year.
9 Fiscal year ends November 30.


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