A Foundation Library...On Your Desk The 1974-75 edition of WHERE AMERICA’S LARGE FOUNDATIONS MAKE THEIR GRANTS is the most complete record ever published giving the specifics of grant making by large foundations in this country. The first edition of this book (1971-72) represented a giant information breakthrough in providing vital, accurate facts about who was receiving grants from America’s large foundations and how much. This new edition is bigger, more comprehensive and more detailed. The information it provides is remarkably up-to-date. e@ It includes over 750 foundations — all with assets of more than $1 million — with the address of each foundation given. These foundations control 90% of foundation assets and make over 80% of all foundation grants. e@ The book gives you no mere sampling of foundation grants. In many cases it includes all of the grants made by the foundation, as well as the names of all of the grantees. Generally, it lists about 65% of the grantees and about 80% of the monies granted. Even grants as low as $1,000 are included when they help provide a better understanding of a foundation’s pattern of giving. e The book provides a new dimension by telling you in many cases the purpose for which the grants were made. This information is exceedingly valuable in directing you to a large foundation’s precise interests. It is a wholly new feature that was not included in the 197172 edition. @ The book gives you remarkably current information... as current, in many cases, as if you had the foundation’s just published Annual Report in front of you. e And because foundations are more likely to make grants within their state than out of it, we have alphabetized the foundations according to state. You can tell, now, which organizations in your state and in your city are receiving grants from foundations. Now you don’t have to wonder whether a large foundation gives to institutions like yours, or whether you’re asking for too much or too little, or even whether you should try for a special project as opposed to a general purpose grant. All this information reveals itself when you see to whom a foundation is making its grants — and how much it is giving to these institutions. And why. Look At The Examples Just look at the two actual examples from the book on the following pages. Better than any words of ours they tell you why WHERE AMERICA’S LARGE FOUNDATIONS MAKE THEIR GRANTS will be so valuable to you. Here is the Frueauff Foundation in New York City making grants to colleges, hospitals and social service agencies in every part of the country. Certainly a foundation worth your consideration. But, look again! With the exception of just three grants, every one is $25,000 or below. Obviously, when you approach this foundation, you will be smart enough to do so not with your giant projects — but with your moderate cost ones. Because, obviously again, this is the kind of project that Frueauff prefers to fund. Now, for a wholly different picture, take a look at the report of 1973 grants from the huge Max C. Fleischmann Foundation of Nevada. It makes far more grants than Frueauff and usually for much larger amounts. It is also truly a national foundation, with as many grants outside the state of Nevada as in it. Hospitals and educational in- stitutions appear favored, but also a goodly number of social, civic, interracial and cultural organizations receive grants. Obviously, if yours is an agency of this kind, this is a foundation worth approaching. In the words of the Editor, Joseph Dermer, who is also President of his own New York City financial development and public relations firm: “This book developed out of my organization’s experience Over many years in raising funds from foundations. We found that the Foundation Directory, indispensable as it is as a reference, was not enough. Once we had determined, with the help of the Directory, that a foundation might be interested in giving to an organization we represented, we found that there still was a lot more information we required. Specifically, we needed a record of current giving by the foundation. And we had to know the purpose for which the grants were made.” And this is the kind of information this book gives you, not for one or two large foundations, but for more than 750.