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This category contains all pages on charitable or philanthropic foundations, meaning those organsiations which exist to fund other organisations. The category should not be used to label organisations which just have the word 'foundation' in their title but are actually think tanks or institutes or other action oriented organsiations which do not mainly exist for the purpose of giving money away to 'good' causes.

One of the key interests of this site is in the right wing foundations which do so much to distort public debate and policy making. their role is outlined in a report published by People for the American Way:

Each year, conservative foundations pour millions of dollars into a broad range of conservative political organizations. These foundation gifts are remarkable for two principal reasons: first, their sheer size and concentration; second, the willingness of the foundations to promote a highly politicized agenda by funding a broad range of organizations.

The report examines the funding patterns of a number of significant conservative foundations and their grantees. It argues that:

• Right-wing foundations have developed a truly comprehensive funding strategy, providing grants to a broad range of groups, each promoting right-wing positions to their specific audiences. The grants have created and nurtured an enormous range of organizations all bent on promoting a far-right-wing agenda. Recipients of foundation largesse include the right-wing media; national "think tanks" and advocacy groups; a budding network of regional and state-based think tanks; conservative university programs; conservative college newspapers; conservative scholars and more. In many of these funding areas, progressive and mainstream foundation giving lags far behind.
• Five foundations stand out from the rest: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Koch Family foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Scaife Family foundations and the Adolph Coors Foundation. Each has helped fund a range of far-right programs, including some of the most politically charged work of the last several years. For example, the American Spectator magazine, which led the charge on President Bill Clinton's state trooper contretemps and launched a slash-and-burn strategy targeting Anita Hill, is a prime recipient of foundation support.
• Public debate on a number of issues has been transformed by foundation largesse. For example, the Wisconsin-based Bradley Foundation has supported a range of pro-voucher efforts in its home state, sowing the seeds for that state's first-in-the-nation school vouchers program in Milwaukee. Other such case studies are presented in the report.^[1]

Foundations

Examples of foundations which would be included are:

A-C

| Robert Bosch Foundation | The California Endowment | Carlsberg Foundation | The Church Commissioners for England | City Bridge Trust

D-F

| Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt | Ford Foundation | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

G-I

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | J. Paul Getty Trust | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |

J-L

W.K. Kellogg Foundation | The Kresge Foundation | Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg | Lilly Endowment | The Leverhulme Trust

M-O

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation | The MasterCard Foundation | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | The National Trust | Nuffield Foundation | Nobel Foundation | | John M. Olin Foundation | Onassis Foundation

P-R

| David and Lucile Packard Foundation | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Realdania | Rockefeller Foundation | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

S-U

Li Ka Shing Foundation | The Henry Smith Charity | Smith Richardson Foundation | The Starr Foundation

V-Z

| Volkswagen Foundation | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation | Wellcome Trust | Garfield Weston Foundation | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Wolfson Foundation | Whitgift Foundation

Others can be found on the Wikipedia page List of wealthiest charitable foundations

Not Foundations

The following organsiations have the word 'foundation' in their title and may legally be a 'foundation'. For our purpose, however, they are not a philanthropic or charitable foundation.

• British Nutrition Foundation and education and lobby group for the Food industry
• Scottish Council Foundation - a think tank
• Scottish Leadership Foundation - a policy and training organisation

Notes