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Online Databases
Foundation Directory Online
The nation’s leading online resource for funding research – useful for finding new funders, target your proposals – advance your mission – over 98,000 US foundations and corporate donors and 1.6 million recent grants.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Database
Detailed descriptions of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers. The foundations listed in this subset are also included in the Foundation Directory Online database.
An interactive mapping tool designed for grantmakers, policymakers and researchers interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today. In/Sight combines the Foundation Center’s rich data on grantmakers and their grants with Google maps. Users can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships overlaying grant data with their choice of over 150 demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to show where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs. For More Information [PDF]
Visit the Central Library to access these Foundation Center databases. Use of all the Nonprofit Resource Center collection is free and open to the public all the hours that the Central Library is open.
Last updated: March 14, 2011