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How Much Foundations Plan to Give in 2001

February 22, 2001 | Read Time: 2 minutes

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

From the issue dated Thursday, February 22, 2001

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Big Funds See a Dip in Assets

How The Chronicle Conducted Its Survey on Foundations


2001 budget Percentage change from 2000
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Irvine, Calif.)1 $22,500,000 (A) + 10.4%
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) $41,000,000 (A) – 2.3%
Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) $14,875,000 (P) – 21.0%
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)1 $42,191,700 (A) + 8.8%
California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.)2 $45,000,000 (P) 0.0
Carnegie Corporation of New York3 $76,300,000 (A) + 26.9%
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa)4 $14,000,000 (A) + 5.6%
Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) $185,266,600 (A) + 45.3%
Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.) $24,000,000 (A) + 1.2%
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York)3 $25,000,000 (A) – 43.2%
Clark Foundation (New York)2 $14,900,000 (A) + 14.3%
Commonwealth Fund (New York)2 $17,884,656 (A) + 5.5%
Cullen Foundation (Houston) $8,000,000 (A) + 3.5%
2001 budget Percentage change from 2000
Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York) $22,000,000 (A) – 1.0%
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) $63,226,000 (A) – 45.7%
Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.)5 $17,000,000 (A) – 5.1%
Educational Foundation of America (Westport, Conn.) $15,000,000 (P) + 3.5%
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation (Atlanta) $5,500,000 (P) + 2.7%
John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) $25,960,000 (P) + 4.8%
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) $150,000,000 (A) + 11.2%
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Reno, Nev.)6 $30,900,000 (P) + 1.0%
James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco) $74,000,000 (A) + 5.3%
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami) $85,000,000 (P) + 27.2%
Koret Foundation (San Francisco) $15,000,000 (A) – 40.1%
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) $17,000,000 (A) + 11.8%
2001 budget Percentage change from 2000
Henry Luce Foundation (New York) $55,000,000 (A) – 19.7%
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) $193,100,000 (A) + 10.5%
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago) $111,000,000 (A) + 9.9%
McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh)3 $30,000,000 (A) + 3.1%
Meadows Foundation (Dallas) $32,640,000 (A) + 18.2%
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) $150,000,000 (A) – 2.4%
Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.) $10,000,000 (A) + 42.9%
John M. Olin Foundation (New York) $18,000,000 (P) – 13.5%
Park Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.) $25,000,000 (A) + 8.3%
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation (Los Angeles) $18,300,000 (A) + 0.9%
William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) $61,000,000 (P) + 0.4%
Public Welfare Foundation (Washington)5 $20,000,000 (A) + 0.2%
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis) $17,700,000 (P) + 5.8%
2001 budget Percentage change from 2000
Sid W. Richardson Foundation (Fort Worth) $12,000,000 (A) – 67.3%
Rockefeller Foundation (New York) $158,000,000 (A) + 12.1%
Dr. Scholl Foundation (Chicago) $11,000,000 (A) – 22.4%
Skillman Foundation (Detroit) $25,000,000 (P) – 2.7%
Spencer Foundation (Chicago)7 $21,650,000 (A) – 55.8%
Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) $22,000,000 (A) + 20.0%
Surdna Foundation (New York)2 $34,000,000 (A) – 4.2%
DeWitt Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund (New York) $36,000,000 (A) + 37.3%
Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund (New York) $19,000,000 (A) – 15.2%
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, Md.)6 $102,000,000 (P) + 41.7%
Robert A. Welch Foundation (Houston)1 $24,000,000 (P) – 16.6%
Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation (Atlanta) $17,200,000 (P) + 2.9%
Note: Foundations listed in this table provided specific figures for their grants budgets; the other 92 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal year 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 June 30.
3. Fiscal year ends September 30.
4. Fiscal year ends April 30.
5. Fiscal year ends October 31.
6. 2001 data are for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2002. Percentage changes are based on the fiscal year ending February 28, 2001.
7. 2001 data are for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2002. Percentage changes are based on the fiscal year ending March 31, 2001.


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