Search Grants: Greater than $10 million

The J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation, Inc does not award financial gifts to individuals, educational institutes that do not provide higher learning, tax-supported institutions or for individual projects or scholarships.

The Maclellan Foundation, Inc. does not award financial gifts to individuals or for causes that do not directly serve communities.

The Thomas H. Maren Foundation does not award grants to individuals.

The foundation does not provide support for programs that already receive substantial support from the government.  The Ford Foundation does not award grants for routine operation costs, building construction or maintenance, educational scholarships (undergraduate), graduate fellowships, nor personal or local needs.

The foundation also does not award grants to organizations that emphasize religious sectarian programs or activities.

The foundation seeks to award grants to community development projects such as those promoting the arts, capital building, and social services. Individual grants are not generally given except in cases for : 1) fellowships that are awarded under special programs 2) endowments (except for Indiana-based community foundations)

The foundation does not support healthcare programs, mass media projects, libraries or for individual schools (elementary and secondary).

For more detailed information, please visit the foundation website.

The Pew Charitable Trusts does not allow award grants to individuals or to organizations looking to use the funds for construction, government, scholarship or other purposes defined by the organization.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation does not give to international actives, going grants for operation needs, political organizations and biomedical research.  For other limitations visit the above listed website and/or contact the foundation's office of proposal management.

The Marin Community Foundation does not award grants to individuals, unless they are scholarship recipients. For more limitations, please refer to the foundation's website.

The J. Bulow Campbell Foundation does not award grants to support local church congragations, or to individuals. No support for local church congregations.

The F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. does not award grants to individuals and rarely gives to churches, hospitals and educational institutes not attended by or uses by members of the family.

The Duke Endowment does not award grants to individuals or loan money to organizations.

The Meadows Foundation, Inc. does not award grants to individuals.

Pre-selected organizations are generally funded/given preference

Board meetings generally held in December or as required

No grants given to individuals

Gives on a national basis, with emphasis to the Chicago, IL area

Applications generally not accepted

Grants can not be granted to individuals

Private sector organizations are favored over those financed via taxation

Generally funds larger geographic areas, not grass root, neighborhood, or local community based organizations

If a proposal is submitted by an organization, it will be viewed within  one calander  year

Must submit proposals via postage mail (no faxes or emailed proposals allowed)

One site visit is required prior to the Board's review of proposal; visits to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Offices are generally discouraged

Grantee organizations must wait a minimum of three years from the date they were granted an award before another request for funding is considered

The organization will not grant funding for start up and seed funding, publishing projects, loans and program related investments, conferences, workshops, seminars, public policy research, special events (tickets, tables, or advertising for fund raisers), any kind of equipment (i.e. computers, telephones, etc.), nor any type of radio, film, or other media related projects.

Will not fund individual requests for grant funding

Will provide challenge grants, specifically if there is an expectation that there support will be matched by other funding sources

The Foundation will not fund direct-service programs

The Foundation does not provide scholarships, fellowships, nor dissertation support

The Foundation does not provide funding for building renovation, nor for capital campaigns

It will not provide General Operating support to organizations

The Foundation does not provide funding for disaster relief

Visiting the foundation is heavily discouraged

There is an Online Funding Inquiry form that should be used for funding request; this form is reviewed by the foundation

All proposal submissions are done based on an invitation only basis; if the foundation becomes interested in a tentative project, they will send an invitation to submit a Full Proposal via email.  Along with this invite, they will also provide the Foundation's Proposal Application form