As the Foundation Center's top-tier grantseeking research tool, the Foundation includes a wealth of information and features in addition, a comprehensive database of over 100,000 grantmakers and 3 million grants.

As a Cooperating Collection member of the Foundation Center, the Library has access (in-house (on-site) only) to two major Foundation Center databases:

Foundation Directory Online Professional
As the Foundation Center's top-tier grantseeking research tool, the Directory includes a wealth of information and features in addition, a comprehensive database of over 100,000 grantmakers and 2.4 million grants. Search 990s allows you to search across the text of the entire database of over 441,000 IRS 990s for private foundations, community foundations and grantmaking public charities.  Updated weekly.  Are you in the Library?   Click here to use this database.   

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
An online database of more than 10,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers.  Are you in the Library?  Click here to use this database.   

Learn about grants and philanthropy by clicking on "Philanthropy In/Sight" a new online source to search for grants and grantmakers.

The Library also has access (in-house (on-site) only) to:

Foundations in Wisconsin
Marquette University's Raynor Library annually publishes Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory.  It is the only directory of its kind which covers every active grant making foundation in the state of Wisconsin.  The foundation profiles include contact information, total assets, grants paid and areas of interest.  It is available in both print and online formats and the Library has both formats.   Are you in the Library?  Click here to use this database.