August 10, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
Foundation Yearbook: Facts and Figures on Private and Community Foundations, 2000 Edition
edited by Steven Lawrence, Carlos Camposeco, and John Kendzior
In 1998, the nation’s 46,832 grant-making foundations distributed $3.8-billion more than they did the previous year — an increase
of 21.7 percent, according to this report. Those foundations also saw a $55.1-billion jump in their collective assets.
This book, one of four annual installments on grant making in the Foundation Center’s Foundations Today series, focuses primarily on numbers from 1998. The center culls the figures from informational tax returns and from the center’s own research on grant makers.
Though exact data from 1999 are not yet available, the center estimates that the amount of paid grants last year increased 17.2 percent from 1998. The center derives that figure from information provided by 1,300 large and mid-sized foundations.
Tables in the yearbook provide rankings of foundations and their grant recipients in several categories, such as largest grants given and largest grants received. Graphs track the effects of inflation and other influences on giving over the years.
Among the statistics from 1998: Gifts and bequests from donors to foundations climbed 42.6 percent, to $22.6-billion, led by Bill and Melinda Gates’s gift of $4.8-billion to their foundation.
Publisher: Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, Dept. NA7, New York, N.Y. 10003-3076; (212) 807-3690 or (800) 424-9836; fax (212) 807-3691; http://www.fdncenter.org; 98 pages; $95 for the series; I.S.B.N. 0-87954-898-3; I.S.S.N. 1528-1663.
