Private Sponsors

Multiple Sponsor Sources
Search this list if you want to identify potential sponsors for grant opportunities.

• The Foundation Center - provides links to several thousand foundations that have web sites. Look under "Finding Funders" for their grant maker web sites.
• GuideStar - provides access to the tax records of nonprofit organizations.

Contact the office of grant development for more information about access to subscription databases.

• The Foundation Directory Online - provides information on 20,000 of the nation's largest private foundation.
• Foundations in Wisconsin - provides information on the 1000+ foundations in the state.

Specific Sponsors
Here is a sample list of the 65,000 foundations that exist; Note that only 10-20% of all private foundations have web sites.

Be sure to also explore public sponsors for potential funding.

Community and Social Justice Issues	Education
Allstate Foundation American Association of University Women The Bradley Foundation Ford Foundation Greater Green Bay Community Foundation The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation Charles Stuart Mott Foundation OMNOVA Solutions Foundation Inc. David and Lucile Packard Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Soros Foundation Target Community Giving U.S. Bancorp Foundation, Inc. Wal-Mart Foundation	American Honda Foundation The Coca-Cola Foundation The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Greater Green Bay Community Foundation W. M. Keck Foundation W. K. Kellogg Foundation Henry Luce Foundation Lumina Foundation for Education Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Charles Stuart Mott Foundation The National Geographic Society OMNOVA Solutions Foundation Inc. The Spencer Foundation Target Community Giving Toyota USA Foundation U.S. Bancorp Foundation, Inc. UTeach Institute Wal-Mart Foundation
Health	Humanities and Fine Arts
American Psychological Foundation The Coleman Foundation, Inc. Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Robert Wood Johnson Foundation W. K. Kellogg Foundation James S. McDonnell Foundation OMNOVA Solutions Foundation Inc. The Retirement Research Foundation Rockefeller Foundation	American Council of Learned Societies American Philosophical Society Blakemore Foundation The Bradley Foundation The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Ford Foundation J. Paul Getty Trust John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation W. M. Keck Foundation The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Lannan Foundation The Louisville Institute Henry Luce Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Mockingbird Foundation OMNOVA Solutions Foundation Inc. Target Community Giving John Templeton Foundation U.S. Bancorp Foundation, Inc.
International Studies and Exchanges	Natural Sciences
ASIANetwork Association for Asian Studies Blakemore Foundation The Carthage Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation The Korea Society Henry Luce Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Christopher Reynolds Foundation The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc. Tinker Foundation, Inc. United States-Japan Foundation	American Chemical Society American Honda Foundation The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation W. M. Keck Foundation Kresge Foundation Henry Luce Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation James S. McDonnell Foundation The National Geographic Society David and Lucile Packard Foundation Research Corporation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation John Templeton Foundation Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc. Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
Social Sciences	Student Life, Campus Concerns and Interdisciplinary Issues
American Psychological Foundation The Bradley Foundation The Coleman Foundation, Inc. The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation FINRA Investor Education Foundation Ford Foundation William T. Grant Foundation The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation W. M. Keck Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation James S. McDonnell Foundation The Retirement Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Social Science Research Council The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.	Kresge Foundation Henry Luce Foundation James S. McDonnell Foundation NCAA John Templeton Foundation