Private Funding

Ameritech - Higher education enriches the lives of hundreds of thousands of students each year and Ameritech provides resources to broaden its availability and extend its scope and quality. They support colleges and universities in activities such as research, innovative applications of communications technologies, and programs to help attract and retain qualified teachers and students. Over the past five years, they have committed nearly $40 million in contributions and matching gifts to colleges and universities.

American Diabetes Foundation - The ADF's mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. The ADF has chapters in every state and this page contains links to all of them.

American Heart Association - Preventing heart disease and stroke is now -- and has always been -- the first priority of the American Heart Association. To support this goal, the AHA has contributed more than $1 billion to cardiovascular research since 1949. More than 30 percent of AHA yearly revenues are used to sponsor research.

AT&T oundation - The AT&T Foundation is the principal instrument for AT&T philanthropy in the United States and throughout the world. It provides cash grants to nonprofit institutions in the following program areas: Education, Health & Human Services, Arts & Culture, and International. It is the AT&T ndation's intent that all institutions and projects it supports will advance AT&T's corporate goals of promoting a spirit of community, diversity, and equal opportunity, and that programs will be accessible to all segments of society.

American Psychological Association Funding Programs - APA science awards and funding programs.

Annenberg/CPB Projects - The Annenberg/CPB Project's goal is to make the benefits of higher education more accFessible to more people by: 1) creating one or more significant collections of new, innovative, high quality college-level course materials; 2) demonstrating the use of communication technologies for addressing unique higher education problems.

Arthritis Foundation - The mission of the Arthritis Foundation is to support research to find the cure for and prevention of arthritis and to improve the quality of life for those affected by arthritis.

Carnegie Foundation - Carnegie Corporation of New York is a general-purpose, grantmaking foundation established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie "for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States." Subsequent charter amendments have allowed the Corporation to use 7.4 percent of its income for the same purposes in countries that are or have been members of the British Commonwealth. Overseas grants are currently concentrated in Commonwealth Africa. Grants in "noncharter" countries are occasionally made when their substantial purpose is the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States. this link will take you to the Program Guidelines for 1998-1999.

The Ford Foundation - The Ford Foundation's purpose and activities are directed at advancing the public well-being by identifying and contributing to the solution of problems of national and international importance. Grants primarily to institutions for experimental, demonstration, and development efforts that are likely to produce significant advances within the foundation's fields of interest: Urban Poverty, Rural Poverty and Resources, Rights and Social Justice, Governance and Public Policy, Education and Culture, International Affairs, and Reproductive Health and Population.

Global Fund for Women - The Global Fund for Women is an international organization which focuses on female human rights. It supports issues as diverse as literacy, domestic violence, economic autonomy, and the international trafficking of women, among others. It supports women's groups based outside the U.S.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students. The Foundation only supports individuals. It does not make grants to institutions or organizations. The Foundation selects its Fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals to improve the human condition. The Foundation makes grants through Foundation-wide initiatives and through eight programs: The Community Initiatives Program, the Education Program, the General Program, the Health Program, the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Program on Peace and International Cooperation, the Population Program, the World Environment and Resources Program.

J. Paul Getty Trust - The J. Paul Getty Trust is a private operating foundation with six operating programs and a grant program dedicated to the visual arts and humanities. Through its activities and collaborative projects with institutions around the world, the Trust seeks to make a significant contribution to the vitality of the visual arts in the areas of conservation, scholarship, and education.

Mitsubishi Electronic America Foundation - The Foundation's mission is to assist young people with disabilities to lead fuller and more productive lives. Within that mission, the Foundation provides national grants for programs of national scope and impact, and matching grants for projects initiated by Mitsubishi Electric America companies in their local communities. Priority is given to organizations and projects that promote the independence, productivity and community inclusion of youth with disabilities.

National Academy of Sciences - The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare.

The New York Foundation for the Arts - The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is a nonprofit arts service organization, one of the largest providers of grants and services to individual artists and their organizations in all artistic disciplines in the United States. Through its fellowships, residencies, sponsorships, loans, telecommunications, information and advocacy services, the Foundation works with artists and arts organizations throughout New York State and other parts of the country to bring the work of contemporary artists to the public.

PhRMA - PhRMA membership represents approximately 100 U.S. companies that have a primary commitment to Pharmaceutical research. The PhRMA Foundation: The mission of the PhRMA Foundation is to support young scientists in disciplines important to the pharmaceutical industry by awarding them competitive research fellowships and grants at a critical decision point at the outset of their careers..

Private Foundations via the Foundation Center

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established as a national philanthropy in 1972 and today is the largest U.S. foundation devoted to health care. The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in four areas: 1) assuring access to basic health services; 2) improving the way services are organized and provided to people with chronic health conditions; 3) promoting health and preventing disease by reducing harm from substance abuse; 4) seeking opportunities to help the nation address the problem of escalating health care costs.

Sloan Foundation - The main interests and programs of the Foundation are concentrated primarily in four areas: 1) Science and Technology; 2) Standard of Living, Competitiveness, and Economics; 3) Education and Careers in Science and Technology; 4) Selected National Issues.

World Health Organization - Information on all major health concerns world wide.