Information for and About Nonprofit Organizations

A comprehensive source for news and information on U.S.-based foundations. Resources include: searchable archives of Philanthropy News Digest, Foundation Finder, Philanthropy Search Engine for the web (Sector Search), 990-PF forms, a virtual classroom with online tutorials for proposal writing, budgeting and more.

Profiles over 105,000 U.S.-based foundations, describing programs, areas of funding, types of support, geographic emphasis, trustees & officers, application process, deadlines, high, low & average grants, and lists of recent grants made. Also provides access to recent tax returns for private foundations as submitted to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (Form 990-PF's).

Pivot is a directory of researchers, funding opportunities, and publishing opportunities that combines three editorially maintained databases: the Funding Opportunities database of over 400,000 funding opportunities worth over $40 billion, the Scholar Universe database of over 3.5 million profiles of scholars worldwide, and the Papers Invited database from over 150 professional disciplines worldwide.

Grant Space is a free service provided by the Foundation Center which offers a number of training tools and help for finding and writing grants.