Research and Economic Development

This database from the Foundation Center provides an interactive mapping tool for grant-makers, policymakers, researchers, and academics. With Google maps users can create maps identifying patterns of giving and funding relationships. Users can overlay grant data with their choice of over 150 demographic, socioeconomic, and other data sets to create visual portraits showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs. This database is available only from computers located in Kemp Library.

Provides subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grant-makers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 98,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grant-making public charities in the U.S.; a database of nearly 3,500 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a database of over 1.7 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 584,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-P. Foundation Directory Online Professional also provides exclusive funder-specific functionality: the ability to search across a funder’s grants with customized search indexes; the ability to map a funder’s grants for any given year by recipient type or primary subject and drill down to view disbursements by county, city, ZIP code, or congressional district; the ability to chart a funder’s grants for any given year by recipient type or primary subject and drill down to view disbursements by secondary and tertiary category; and the ability to sign up to receive funder-specific e-mail alerts. The database is available only from computers located in Kemp Library.

Provides information on close to 8,300 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant-seekers. Foundation Grants to Individuals Online provides online access to accurate, up-to-date information on foundations that fund and support the following: educational endeavors in the form of scholarships, fellowships loans and internships; students and graduates at specific schools; art and cultural programs and activities; awards, prizes and grants by nomination; international applicants; employees/families of employees at specific companies; research and professional support; general welfare and special needs. This database is available only from computers located in Kemp Library.

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