Foundation Center

Funded by the Mankato Area Foundation

These databases are only available for use at the library.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online contains a complete listing of foundations that give grants to individuals, nearly 8,000 entries in all. These records include detailed descriptions of approximately 2,000 programs which fund individual grant seekers.

Foundation Directory Online Professional

Foundation Directory Online Professional provides subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 100,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a database of over 2.4 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 700,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.

Philanthropy In/Sight

In/Sight combines the Foundation Center’s rich data on grantmakers and their grants with familiar Google maps to tell the story of philanthropy. Choosing from a wide range of customization options, users can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships as never before. Plus, users can overlay grant data with their choice of over 150 demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create compelling visual portraits showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs.

Additional hardcopy items are available at the library.