Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants Outside the U.S., circa 2005
Posted on August 1st, 2007
Foundation Name - State - Foundation Type* - Dollar Amount - No. of Grants
* IN = Independent Foundation; CM = Community Foundation; CS = Corporate Foundation; OP = Operating Foundation.
1. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA IN $1,163,101,341 508
2. Lilly Endowment Inc. IN IN 432,239,295 513
3. The Ford Foundation NY IN 354,745,869 933
4. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation NJ IN 314,026,241 806
5. The Annenberg Foundation PA IN 238,331,023 456
6. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation CA IN 215,317,609 173
7. The Starr Foundation NY IN 197,645,210 419
8. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation NY IN 193,665,969 403
9. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation CA IN 149,709,428 532
10. The California Endowment CA IN 147,893,509 792
11. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation CA IN 147,247,974 468
12. W. K. Kellogg Foundation MI IN 131,062,121 348
13. The Duke Endowment NC IN 119,836,721 683
14. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation IL IN 118,834,442 284
15. The Kresge Foundation MI IN 117,600,026 155
16. The Annie E. Casey Foundation MD IN 104,724,278 1,076
17. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation MI IN 101,488,701 356
18. Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc. GA IN 101,030,268 94
19. The New York Community Trust NY CM 99,711,276 2,275
20. Walton Family Foundation, Inc. AR IN 98,140,900 341
21. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. MD IN 94,971,452 449
22. The Ave Maria Foundation MI IN 91,922,306 18
23. Donald W. Reynolds Foundation NV IN 84,781,273 89
24. Richard King Mellon Foundation PA IN 81,074,925 184
25. The McKnight Foundation MN IN 80,639,090 411
26. Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc. IN IN 80,551,634 178
27. Peninsula Community Foundation CA CM 79,412,398 1,072
28. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation FL IN 73,388,087 240
29. Carnegie Corporation of New York NY IN 71,577,200 673
30. Ford Motor Company Fund MI CS 71,060,278 646
31. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation NY IN 69,823,690 78
32. Houston Endowment Inc. TX IN 69,137,350 350
33. The William Penn Foundation PA IN 67,824,515 236
34. The Wallace Foundation NY IN 66,411,000 93
35. Community Foundation Silicon Valley CA CM 64,428,171 1,144
36. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation NY IN 62,777,976 302
37. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. NC CS 62,564,294 1,253
38. Citigroup Foundation NY CS 62,123,050 711
39. Open Society Institute NY OP 59,402,449 434
40. The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust NY IN 58,752,198 41
41. The Rockefeller Foundation NY IN 58,719,266 203
42. Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc. TX CM 58,117,521 405
43. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation NE IN 57,125,467 93
44. The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region DC CM 56,573,211 945
45. The James Irvine Foundation CA IN 54,538,935 275
46. The Brown Foundation, Inc. TX IN 52,109,991 300
47. The Jonas Foundation NJ IN 52,045,700 48
48. Wal-Mart Foundation AR CS 50,980,431 344
49. AT&T Foundation TX CS 49,326,418 712
50. The San Francisco Foundation CA CM 48,885,735 1,527
Source: The Foundation Center, 2007. Due to rounding, figures may not add up. Based on grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a national sample of 1,154 larger U.S. foundations (including 800 of the 1,000 largest ranked by total giving). For community foundations, only discretionary grants are included. Grants to individuals are not included in the file.
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