Founded in 1994, the Center for Arts and Culture is an independent think thank that "aims to broaden and deepen the national conversation on culture and cultural policies." One of the Center's core missions is to function as a place for public discussions of cultural issues and policies throughout the United States. To this end, the Center commissions research, facilitates public roundtables, and...

GrantCraft was originally started in October 2001 as a small collection of case studies and examples, and it was designed to be used as orientation material for new program officers at the Ford Foundation. Over the past decade, the site has grown significantly, and it offers videos, workshops, guides, and other tools to help grantmakers across the spectrum. On the homepage, visitors can start by...

Consisting of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by the children of Sun Oil company founder Joseph N. Pew, the Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Each of these programmatic areas is managed by a director responsible for coordinating the grant...

The Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Web site describes itself as the most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 23,000 records that represent over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion. Users can search the database, which is updated daily, by simple keywords, sponsors, locations, requirements, citizenship, funding type,...

Founded in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation is one of the largest private philanthropic entities in the United States. In the past year, it awarded over $140 million in grants to numerous organizations working and researching topics of interest to the Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation currently has five primary program themes: creativity and culture, food security, health equity, working...