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Foundation Directory

For your convenience website links to private foundations are provided below. Please note that before faculty members or academic units may approach the foundations delineated with an asterisk (*) they must notify the Office of Foundation Relations. These foundations require the involvement of the Office of the President.

Allen Foundations, Paul G.
* Alsdorf Foundation
American Federation on Aging Research
American Foundation for Urologic Disease
* Annenberg Foundation
* ARCS Foundation
Arthritis Foundation
* Atlantic Philanthropies

Bader Foundation, Helen
Beckman Foundation, Arnold and Mabel
Berlex Foundation
Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
Bradley Foundation, Lynde and Harry
Brinson Foundation
Brookdale Foundation
* Buehler Family Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund

* Crown Memorial, Arie and Ida
Cancer of the Prostate, Associate for the Cure of (CapCURE)
Cancer Research Foundation
* Carnegie Corporation of New York
Casey Foundation, Annie E.
Cheney Foundation, Elizabeth F.
* Chicago Community Trust
Coleman Foundation
Commonwealth Fund
Cudahy Fund, Patrick and Anna
Cummings Foundation, Nathan
* Coon Foundation, Owen L.

* Dana Foundation, Charles A.
* Davee Foundation
* Davis Foundation, Arthur Vining
Dermatology Foundation
* Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
* Dreyfus Foundation, Camille and Henry

* Endeavor Foundaton, Christian Johnson
Ellison Medical Foundation

Field Foundation of Illinois
Field Neurosciences Institute
* Ford Foundation
Francis Families Foundation
Fry Foundation, Lloyd A.
* Feinberg Foundation, Joseph and Bessie

* Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda
* George Gund Foundation
Gollob Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, Carol
* Gordon and Llura Gund Foundatoin
Grant Foundation, William T.
Guggenheim Foundation, Harry Frank
Guggenheim Foundation, John Simon

Howard Foundation, George and Eliza
Hartford Foundation, John A.
* Hearst Foundation, William Randolph
* Hewlett Foundation, William and Flora
* Hoellen Family Foundation
* Howard Hughes Medical Institute

* Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood
* Joyce Foundation

Kaplan Fund, J.M.
Kauffman Foundation, Ewing Marion
* Keck Foundation, W.M.
* Kellogg Foundation, W.K.
* Kemper Foundation, James S.
* Knight Foundation, John S. and James L.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Susan G.
* Kresge Foundation

Lalor Foundation
Leakey Foundation
* Leon Lowenstein
Leukemia Research Foundation
Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Link Foundation
* Luce Foundation, Henry

* McCormick Foundation, Chauncey and Marion Deering
* Moore Foundation, Gordon and Betty
* MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T.
Macy, Jr. Foundation, Josiah
Markle Foundation
McConnell Clark Foundation, Edna
* McCormick Tribune Foundation, Robert R.
McDonnell Foundation, James S.
McGowan Fund
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Mellinger Educational Foundation, Edward Arthur
* Mellon Foundation, Andrew W.
Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
Milken Family Trust
Morse Charitable Trust, Elizabeth
Mott Foundation, Charles Stewart

National Kidney Foundation
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois
New York Community Trust

Open Society Institute

* Packard Foundation, David and Lucile
Pardee Foundation, Elsa U.
Parsons Foundation, Ralph M.
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser
* Pew Charitable Trusts
Pfeiffer Research Foundation, Gustavus and Louise
Pick, Jr. Fund, Albert
* Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
* Pritzker Foundation
Public Welfare Foundation

* Rice Foundation, Daniel F. and Ada L.
* Regenstein Foundation
Research to Prevent Blindness
Retirement Research Foundation
Reynolds Foundation, Christopher
Richardson Foundation, Smith
Rockefeller Bros. Fund
Rockefeller Family Fund
* Rockefeller Foundation
Rubinstein Foundation, Helena
Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Damon

Sage Foundation, Russell
* Scholl Foundation, Dr.
* Sherman Fairchild Foundation
* Siragusa Foundation
* Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.
Soros Foundation
Speh Family Foundation
* Spencer Foundation
Sprague Memorial Institute, Ortho A.
* Starr Foundation
Stuart Foundation
* Surdna Foundation

Turner ALS Foundation, Les
* Terra Foundation for the Arts
Tinker Foundation

Wallace Genetic Foundation
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Andy
Washington Square Health Foundation
Wasserman Foundation
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Whitaker Foundation
Whitehall Foundation
Whitney Foundation, Helen Hay
Wieboldt Foundation
Woods Charitable Fund
Woods Fund of Chicago

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