Size Of Median Grants at Big Foundations
March 4, 2004 | Read Time: 5 minutes
| 2003 | 2002 | |
| Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation (San Francisco) | $2,000,000 | $4,000,000 |
| Robert W. Woodruff Foundation (Atlanta) | $1,000,000 | $200,000 |
| Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) | $837,000 | $750,000 |
| Kresge Foundation (Troy, Mich.) | $750,000 | n/a |
| Wallace Foundation (New York)1 | $495,500 | n/a |
| J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation (Tulsa, Okla.)2 | $450,700 | $413,600 |
| John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami) | $369,198 | $176,305 |
| Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation (Fort Worth) | $300,000 | n/a |
| John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) | $300,000 | $467,132 |
| Longwood Foundation (Wilmington, Del.)3 | $300,000 | $219,000 |
| Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York)3 | $250,000 | n/a |
| Henry Luce Foundation (New York) | $250,000 | $250,000 |
| Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia)4, 5 | $250,000 | $130,000 |
| Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) | $214,863 | $100,000 |
| Colorado Trust (Denver) | $200,000 | $300,000 |
| William T. Grant Foundation (New York) | $198,000 | n/a |
| Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (Jacksonville, Fla.)6 | $175,000 | $175,000 |
| Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.)7 | $174,111 | $132,032 |
| M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (Vancouver, Wash.) | $164,488 | $102,000 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) | $160,660 | $157,344 |
| Baptist Community Ministries (New Orleans)3 | $160,000 | $290,000 |
| Bush Foundation (St. Paul)8 | $160,000 | $194,954 |
| Commonwealth Fund (New York)9 | $151,268 | $146,565 |
| Atlantic Foundation of New York10 | $150,000 | n/a |
| Barr Foundation (Boston)11 | $150,000 | $150,000 |
| H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation (Palm Desert, Calif.)12 | $150,000 | $70,000 |
| Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York) | $150,000 | n/a |
| Irene Diamond Fund (New York) | $150,000 | $150,000 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) | $150,000 | $175,000 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) | $150,000 | $100,000 |
| Sid W. Richardson Foundation (Fort Worth) | $150,000 | $150,000 |
| Wallace H. Coulter Foundation (Miami)3 | $134,608 | $198,775 |
| James S. McDonnell Foundation (St. Louis) | $124,463 | $104,405 |
| California Endowment (Woodland Hills)13 | $120,808 | $150,000 |
| Ford Foundation (New York)3 | $120,000 | $123,000 |
| Beldon Fund (New York) | $112,000 | $100,000 |
| Grainger Foundation (Lake Forest, Ill.) | $111,349 | n/a |
| Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Reno, Nev.)14 | $107,000 | $145,000 |
| Booth Ferris Foundation (New York) | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York3 | $100,000 | $145,000 |
| Ellison Medical Foundation (Bethesda, Md.) | $100,000 | $162,500 |
| James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco) | $100,000 | $130,000 |
| Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis) | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Skillman Foundation (Detroit) | $100,000 | $90,000 |
| John Templeton Foundation (Radnor, Pa.) | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Danforth Foundation (St. Louis)15 | $90,000 | $92,000 |
| Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.) | $90,000 | $125,000 |
| Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa)16 | $80,000 | $60,000 |
| Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) | $80,000 | $100,000 |
| Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.)9 | $77,407 | $50,000 |
| Meadows Foundation (Dallas) | $76,000 | $76,500 |
| Hearst Foundation (New York) | $75,000 | $75,000 |
| William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York) | $75,000 | $100,000 |
| California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills) | $73,000 | $74,000 |
| Surdna Foundation (New York)9 | $72,000 | $75,000 |
| Ahmanson Foundation (Beverly Hills, Calif.)17 | $70,532 | $61,605 |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.)2 | $70,404 | $110,240 |
| McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) | $70,000 | $70,000 |
| Rockefeller Foundation (New York) | $65,000 | $75,000 |
| Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.)2 | $60,424 | $84,273 |
| Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.)18 | $60,000 | $50,000 |
| McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh)3 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis) | $60,000 | n/a |
| Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, Conn.) | $60,000 | $75,000 |
| Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) | $60,000 | $50,554 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) | $59,050 | $54,280 |
| Irving S. Gilmore Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.) | $55,600 | n/a |
| Ralph M. Parsons Foundation (Los Angeles) | $55,000 | $55,172 |
| Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta) | $53,000 | n/a |
| Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh) | $50,000 | $45,000 |
| Cannon Foundation (Concord, N.C.)3 | $50,000 | $45,000 |
| Amon G. Carter Foundation (Fort Worth) | $50,000 | $35,000 |
| Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) | $50,000 | n/a |
| Energy Foundation (San Francisco) | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (San Francisco) | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| Charles Hayden Foundation (New York)9 | $50,000 | n/a |
| Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh)19 | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| Picower Foundation (Palm Beach, Fla.) | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) | $50,000 | $51,522 |
| Robert A. Welch Foundation (Houston)2 | $50,000 | n/a |
| Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, Ore.)20 | $49,600 | $58,400 |
| F.B. Heron Foundation (New York) | $45,000 | $50,000 |
| Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.) | $40,000 | $45,000 |
| Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) | $40,000 | n/a |
| Retirement Research Foundation (Chicago) | $35,015 | $27,862 |
| Polk Bros. Foundation (Chicago)2 | $35,000 | $50,000 |
| Public Welfare Foundation (Washington)17 | $35,000 | $35,000 |
| Howard Gilman Foundation (New York) | $33,000 | $10,000 |
| Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundations (Seattle)21 | $30,000 | $25,000 |
| Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul) | $26,821 | $25,112 |
| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) | $25,000 | $40,000 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)2 | $25,000 | $20,000 |
| Charles Engelhard Foundation (New York) | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund (San Francisco)22 | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund (San Francisco) | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| John R. McCune Charitable Trust (Pittsburgh)8 | $25,000 | n/a |
| John R. Oishei Foundation (Buffalo, N.Y.) | $25,000 | n/a |
| Wortham Foundation (Houston)3 | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Burton D. Morgan Foundation (Akron, Ohio) | $24,000 | n/a |
| William T. Kemper Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.)17 | $20,270 | $21,163 |
| Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Washington)16 | $20,000 | $40,000 |
| Peter Kiewit Foundation (Omaha)9 | $20,000 | n/a |
| Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.)23 | $20,000 | $25,000 |
| Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage) | $20,000 | $20,950 |
| Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.) | $18,675 | n/a |
| Callaway Foundation (La Grange, Ga.)3 | $17,627 | $39,873 |
| Martha Holden Jennings Foundation (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | $16,069 | $17,576 |
| Annenberg Foundation (St. Davids, Pa.)9 | $15,000 | $10,000 |
| Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.) | $15,000 | $22,400 |
| Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation (New York)24 | $15,000 | $10,000 |
| Helen Bader Foundation (Milwaukee)2 | $14,000 | $15,000 |
| Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita) | $9,980 | n/a |
| El Pomar Foundation (Colorado Springs) | $7,500 | n/a |
| Joukowsky Family Foundation (New York)17 | $6,500 | $10,000 |
| Connelly Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.) | $5,000 | $7,850 |
| Wege Foundation (Grand Rapids, Mich.) | $5,000 | n/a |
| Frist Foundation (Nashville) | $3,900 | $12,500 |
| Clara Abbott Foundation (Abbott Park, Ill.) | $2,000 | n/a |
| Note: Foundations listed in this table provided specific figures for the median size of their grants; the other 30 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal years ending December 31. n/a Not available. |
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| 1 Figures for 2002 are for the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund and the DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Fund. The foundations merged in 2003. 2 Fiscal year ends August 31. 3 Fiscal year ends September 30. 4 Figures are for the J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, the Medical Trust, the J.N. Pew Jr. Charitable Trust, the Mabel Pew Myrin Trust, the Knollbrook Trust, the Pew Memorial Trust, and the Mary Anderson Trust. 5 Organization has gained IRS approval to convert to charity status. 6 Figures are for two separate foundations. 7 Foundation plans to distribute all its assets by 2006. 8 Fiscal year ends November 30. 9 Fiscal year ends June 30. 10 Foundation is organized under New York law and is one of several charities that make up the Atlantic Philanthropies. The remaining charities are organized under the laws of jurisdictions outside the United States. 11 Figures cover a 13-month period to reflect a change in the fiscal year. 12 2002 figures represent credits and carry-forward cash payments for the following year. 13 Figures are for the fiscal years ending February 28, 2003, and February 29, 2004. Figures for the 2004 fiscal year are estimates. 14 Fiscal year ends February 28. 15 Fiscal year ends May 31. 16 Fiscal year ends April 30. 17 Fiscal year ends October 31. 18 Figures are for three separate foundations. 19 Figures are for the Howard Heinz and the Vira I. Heinz Endowments. 20 Fiscal year ends March 31. 21 Figures are for the Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation, the Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research, the Allen Foundation for the Arts, the Allen Foundation for Music, the Paul G. Allen Forest Protection Foundation, and the Paul G. Allen Virtual Education Foundation. 22 Figures include grants from the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties. 23 2002 figures are for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2002. 2003 figures are for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2003, to reflect a change in the fiscal year. 24 Fiscal year ends July 31. |
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