(PDF here) Although the Glaser Progress Foundation was made possible by the great wealth its benefactor garnered from a mere decade’s work at Microsoft, it aims to change the…
(PDF here) The Joyce Foundation’s endowment came from David Joyce, a lumber magnate who believed in the American system of free enterprise. Today the foundation that lives off his…
(PDF here) New York’s Surdna Foundation used to focus on the usual left-wing causes: environmentalism and so-called smart growth, community development, and the arts. Sensing an opportunity when Barack…
(PDF here) The Nathan Cummings Foundation is yet another philanthropy whose original donor was able to live the American dream and create great wealth through the free market. But…
(PDF here) For seven decades, a foundation created with money from the Washington Post’s owners has been trying to help push America further to port. You have probably never…
(PDF available here) Summary: The Rockefeller Foundation was started by a pillar of the Protestant work ethic who knew that giving money away has tremendous potential to…
(PDF) Using a brilliantly effective YouTube video, a little-known American nonprofit has focused world attention on a murderous African warlord. Although various critics have complained about the…
With over $2.8 billion in assets the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation has become a major force in foundation philanthropy aimed at children and families. The Casey Foundation was established…
The Chesapeake Bay is the nation’s largest estuary, encompassing fresh water that flows from six states – Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New York and West Virginia – and mixes with…
(Foundation Watch, October 2011, PDF here) Few outside the world of philanthropy have heard of the nearly 60 year old Arca Foundation but that doesn’t mean it…