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How do I find out about grants for my area of interest?
There are several types of resources that can help you learn about grants or locate potential donors in your subject field.
Electronic Resources:
FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM, which profiles more than 75,000 grantmakers, combines directory-type information with recent grant information in a convenient, fully searchable CD-ROM format. The Grantmaker file can be searched by field of interest, geographic focus, types of support, and many other categories. The Grants file can be searched by subject, recipient type, year authorized, types of support, and many other points of entry. Both files permit free-text searching as well.
FC Search is available for free use at all five Center libraries and at our more than 200 Cooperating Collections. FC Search and other resources published by the Foundation Center are also available for purchase through our online Marketplace.
You may wish to subscribe to The Foundation Directory Online (available at a variety of subscription levels), where you can search Foundation Center records on more than 75,000 grantmakers and a grants file of nearly 400,000 grants awarded by the nation’s top funders. The Foundation Directory Online has four subscription plans. The Foundation Directory Online Basic provides detailed information on the largest 10,000 foundations. The Foundation Directory Online Plus, also available by subscription, offers the top 10,000 grantmaker records plus nearly 400,000 grant records from the largest foundations in the country. The Foundation Directory Online Premium contains records of the country's top 20,000 foundations in addition to the grants file. And The Foundation Directory Online Platinum offers our complete universe of grantmakers and our file of nearly 400,000 grant records.
To compare FC Search with The Foundation Directory Online Basic, The Foundation Directory Online Plus, The Foundation Directory Online Premium, and The Foundation Directory Online Platinum, see this comparison chart. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the chart.
Foundation Finder is a free look-up tool that provides you with contact information, including Web site addresses (URL's), and basic fiscal profiles on more than 70,000 private and community foundations with a link to their most recent Form 990-PF tax return. You must have all or part of a foundation's name in order to use Foundation Finder. Please see our "Tips for Using Foundation Finder" for hints on how to conduct the most efficient search.
The Foundation Center's Sector Search lets you enter keyword(s) to search the Web sites of U.S. nonprofit organizations by type (private foundations, corporate foundations, community foundations, grantmaking public charities, nonprofit organizations, or government sources), or all at once.
You might also want to try Grantmaker Web Sites, which lets you search abstracts (created by Center staff) of private foundations, corporate grantmakers, and grantmaking public charities on the Internet. Community foundations are listed geographically by state. You might also check the Community Foundation Locator, maintained by the Council on Foundations, to see if there is a community foundation serving your local area.
The Foundation Center offers online access to more than 150,000 Forms 990-PF (private foundation tax returns) from approximately 80,000 foundations in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat reader in order to view the returns. The most recent returns can be found using the Foundation Finder, 990-PF Search, The Foundation Directory Online Subscription Services, and FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM.
The Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin provides listings of Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Each listing provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grantmaking organization, along with the date the RFP was posted and the deadline. New RFPs are posted first, while those posted seven days previously are organized by subject categories. You can sign up to receive the RFP Bulletin as a free weekly e-mail newsletter.
You might also try reading Philanthropy News Digest (PND), an online compendium of weekly news abstracts on foundations and grants. There are two searchable PND archives, one dating back to January 2001 and the other from January of 1995 through 2000.
The Links to Nonprofit Resources section of our Researching Philanthropy directory has dozens of additional nonprofit Web sites that may be of interest to you.
The Center's database of grants and grantmakers is also available through DIALOG (Files 26 and 27). To search these files yourself, you need to first establish an account with DIALOG, and it is best to have some knowledge of the DIALOG command language.
Print Resources:
Directories of foundations. This type of reference tool concentrates on information about the funders themselves rather than their grants. Each entry in The Foundation Directory, for example, includes the foundation's stated funding interests, when available. An extensive subject index to foundation fields of interest is also included, as are selected grants for the larger foundations.
Specialized funding directories. Foundations are also listed in directories that cover a particular subject field, population group, or type of support. The Foundation Center's National Guide to Funding in Arts and Culture, Corporate Resource Consultants' National Directory of Foundation Grants for Native Americans, and Oryx Press' Directory of Research Grants are all examples of specialized funding directories. The Foundation Center publishes a number of directories that focus on the major funders in specific subject areas, like education, health, religion, and the arts. Known collectively as the National Guide series, these directories combine descriptive information about each foundation with grant records.
Indexes of recent grants. If you prefer to scan grants in a specific subject area, this information is available in the Center's Grants Guide series. These guides contain grants of $10,000 or more awarded by more than 1,000 of the largest foundations. These funders account for more than half of all foundation grant dollars awarded. The Grants Guides are organized by subject; entries list the year, amount, and purpose of each grant, and back-of-the-book indexes enable you to access grants information by subject, recipient, and geographic focus.
These and other books are available for free public use at all five Foundation Center libraries and at more than 200 Cooperating Collections nationwide. Check our listing for the library or collection nearest you.
To learn more about FC Search, see our basic, advanced, and interactive FC Search Guided Tours in the Virtual Classroom or take our free one-hour course, Getting Started with FC Search or our full day, fee-based Funding Research with FC Search. To learn more about The Foundation Directory Online, attend our free one-hour course, Introduction to The Foundation Directory Online or our full day, fee-based Finding Funding Prospects with The Foundation Directory Online.
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