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Annual Register of Grant Support
Main Ref AS911 .A2 .A67
Contains the funding amounts given out by public and private foundations, corporations, unions, professional associations, and special interest organizations. Latest edition only.
Foundation Directory, 2 vols.
Main Ref AS911 .A2 F65
Contains information on the finances, governance, and giving interests of the largest grantmaking foundations in the U.S. Latest edition only.
Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors, 2 vols.
Main Ref HV97 .A3 G84 2000
Published by the Foundation Center, this is the most comprehensive list of active grantmaking (public, private, corporate) foundations in the U.S. including not only the very largest, but small regional foundations not found in other print sources.
Mission Statements: A Guide to the Corporate and Nonprofit Sectors
Main Ref HD30.28 .G697 1994
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations, 2 vols.
Main Ref AS29.5 .N38 1998
Contains information on nonprofit organizations with annual revenues of $100,000 or more.
Internet
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
Database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments; federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; and specialized groups and individuals.
FirstGov for Nonprofits
Contains information on grants, loans, management and operations, and tax information from the U.S. government for nonprofit organizations.
Foundation Center
Comprehensive information on private, corporate, and community foundations; public charities; the fund-raising process; and writing grant proposals. Click on the link to Gain Knowledge to search their Catalog of Nonprofit Literature and locate their research studies.
Guidestar
Searchable database of 1.5 million nonprofit organizations who are registered with the IRS and have filed an IRS 990 financial form. Although the basic database is free, you must register to search the database and agree to the site license agreement. You can also pay to obtain additional search options and obtain more detailed information in the GuideStar reports.
Independent Sector
Coalition of U. S. charitable and philanthropic foundations and corporate-giving organizations. Web site contains some free research publications, public policy statements, and accountability information for organizations and nonprofits.
Internet Resources for Nonprofits
Collection of web sites by topic from the Utica Public Library.
National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute
A national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States whose mission is to "develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit
organizations and their activities for use in research on the relationships
between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial sector, and the broader
civil society". You must register to obtain their data files.
Nonprofit Internet Funding Sources
Collection of general and government sites from the Libraries' Virtual Reference Collection.
Nonprofit Resources
Annotated list of web sites from Google's Directory.