Foundation Directory
This alphabetical listing provides the names, locations and year of establishment for the 1,876 community foundations that have been identified to date. Use the filters to see the names of all the foundations in a geographic region or country of particular interest. Click on the column headlines to sort results, and click on the organization’s name to see its profile page.
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| Organization | Mission |
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| Organization | Mission |
| Abbotsford Community Foundation | To take a leadership role to enhance the quality of life in British Columbia, Canada |
| Adams County Community Foundation | To build partnerships between donors and community organizations to enrich and enhance the quality of life in Adams County, Indiana |
| Akron Community Foundation | The foundation embraces and enhances the work of charitable people and organizations, who make a permanent commitment for the good of the community. |
| Albion Community Foundation | To strengthen the greater Albion area by cultivating community assets to enhance the community’s quality of life |
| Albuquerque Community Foundation | To build, invest and manage endowment funds to enhance the quality of the community through informed strategic grantmaking |
| Allegany County Area Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for both present and future generations in the Allegany County area by providing scholarships and grants to organizations in support of educational, social, cultural... |
| Amador Community Foundation | To support organizations that enhance the quality of life for the people of Amador County by: encouraging private giving for the public good by providing a flexible, cost-effective and tax-exempt... |
| Armstrong County Community Foundation | To serve the people of Armstrong County and enhance the quality of life by: giving grants, scholarships and organizational support to address the changing needs of our community; building a... |
| Athens Area Community Foundation | To promote and facilitate strategic philanthropy by connecting donors with what they care about through charitable giving and by serving as a well-informed and effective grantmaker to meet needs and... |
| Athens Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the people of the Athens region through building endowments, awarding grants and providing leadership on key community issues now and for generations to... |
| Avila Beach Community Foundation | To promote the enhancement and betterment of the Avila Beach, California, community |
| Ballarat Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Ballarat and its surrounding communities in Victoria, Australia |
| Baraga County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Baraga County, Michigan. The foundation shall serve as a resource developer, building permanent endowments and providing services to donors, nonprofit... |
| Baton Rouge Area Foundation | Uniting human and financial resources to enhance the quality of life in Southern Louisiana |
| Belvedere Community Foundation | To preserve and enhance the quality of life in Belvedere, form an endowment fund with contributions from all Belvedere’s citizens and provide grants to support projects and volunteers working to... |
| Benton Community Foundation | To enhance the community through civic leadership, philanthropy and charitable development initiatives |
| Berkshire Community Foundation | We exist to inspire a strong generous community in Berkshire where people work in partnership to enhance the quality of local life. We inspire philanthopy and charitable giving, connecting people,... |
| Berrien Community Foundation | To promote philanthropy, to build a spirit of community, and to enhance the quality of life in Berrien County through stewardship of permanently endowed and other funds. The foundation shall... |
| Bexley Community Foundation | To sustain and enhance Bexley as a special place to live, learn, work and play |
| Black River Falls Area Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the Black River Falls area, working to realize that goal with the support of individuals, families, businesses and organizations that share this commitment |
| Blackford County Community Foundation | To enhance and improve the quality of life in Blackford County, Indiana, by continually increasing the foundation’s endowed assets so that it can better meet the needs of the community |
| Bowling Green Community Foundation | To accumulate the assets needed to fund creative community plans, and to meet the ever-changing needs of the citizens. The foundation enhances the health, welfare and vitality of the Bowling... |
| Bryan Area Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the Bryan, Ohio, area, now and for generations to come by building community endowment, addressing needs through grantmaking, and serving... |
| Bucheon Hope Foundation | Enhance the lives of Bucheon Comminity |
| Bucks County Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for residents of the county by stimulating philanthropic opportunity and developing long-term financial assets to meet a wide range of the community’s charitable needs |
| Buergerstiftung Wiesloch | To encourage civic engagement, strengthen the local community, activate innovative capacity within the community, enhance public participation for everyone, help people in acute situations of financial neediness, enhance cooperation among... |
| Bürgerstiftung Ahlen | To financially support specific projects that enhance the common good and quality of life within Ahlen, Germany |
| Bürgerstiftung Großenlüder | To support sustainable projects that enhance the quality of life for many people in our region |
| Bürgerstiftung Haltern | To help people in need and enhance the quality of life for everyone in the community by providing support for education, sports, culture, nature and land protection, maintenance of customs... |
| Cadillac Area Community Foundation | To develop a community-wide vehicle for permanent endowments to enhance the quality of life in the area and to establish and manage worthwhile endowed funds for the betterment of the... |
| Campbellford/Seymour Community Foundation | To act as good stewards of the funds realized from the sale of the public utility and further bequests that may follow; to provide leadership in identifying community needs and... |
| Canton Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Canton, Michigan, and surrounding areas by identifying and directing resources that address current and evolving community needs through grants from permanent endowments entrusted... |
| Capital Region Community Foundation | To serve the charitable needs and enhance the quality of life in Michigan’s Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties by helping people and organizations establish permanent, charitable endowment funds that serve... |
| Cass County Community Foundation | To honor the spirit of giving and assist donors in building enduring sources of charitable assets to promote education, enhance humanity and advance community development throughout Cass County. |
| Central New York Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for those who live and work within the community by: encouraging the growth of a permanent charitable endowment to meet the community’s changing opportunities... |
| Charlevoix County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Charlevoix County, Michigan, now and for generations to come, by building a permanent charitable endowment from a wide range of donors, addressing needs... |
| Charlotte Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Charlotte County, Florida, advancing the common good by nurturing a giving community and connecting people who care with causes that matter |
| Cleveland Foundation | To enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking,... |
| Coastal Bend Community Foundation | To help meet the charitable and educational needs and enhance and improve the quality of life in the Coastal Bend area of Texas through grants to charitable organizations; serve a... |
| Columbia Valley Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the communities in the Columbia Valley in British Columbia, Canada, from Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, including Fairmont, Windermere, Invermere, Radium, Edgewater, and Brisco |
| Community Foundation for Crawford County | As a catalyst, the foundation works to enhance the quality of life for all residents of this community by: offering a flexible mechanism that assures that donors’ charitable interests are... |
| Community Foundation for Muskegon County | To build community endowment, effect positive change through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues, all to serve donors’ desires to enhance the quality of life for the people... |
| Community Foundation for Shropshire and Telford | To enhance the quality of life for people in the communities of Shropshire and Telford, England |
| Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan | To enhance the quality of life in southeast Michigan and beyond |
| Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County | To champion enduring and effective philanthropy that enhances the local quality of life. The foundation accomplishes this through: partnering with donors to build and steward permanent endowments; addressing community needs... |
| Community Foundation of Brazoria County, Texas | To significantly enhance the quality of life of the local community by providing outstanding service to donors, producing significant asset growth, strengthening community collaboration and managing an exemplary grants program |
| Community Foundation of Carroll County | To maintain and enhance the quality of life in the community of Carroll County through philanthropic means by receiving, investing and distributing funds for charitable, cultural and educational purposes for... |
| Community Foundation of Carroll County | To improve the quality of life in Carroll County and the surrounding area by initiating programs, coordinating resources and supporting organizations that enhance and advance the civic, social, cultural, recreational... |
| Community Foundation of East Central Florida | To enhance the quality of life in our community by increasing perpetual giving, building community leadership and connecting donors with the causes they care about |
| Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes | The foundation exists in perpetuity to enhance the quality of life in the community. Guided by a board of civic leaders, the foundation provides a continuing source of funding to... |
| Community Foundation of Gaston County | To serve as the primary steward of philanthropic giving by connecting donors with community needs to enhance the lives of present and future generations |
| Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville | To enhance the quality of life in the Greater Huntsville community through philanthropy. |
| Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough | To serve as the vital link between caring community members and local causes that matter. We foster philanthropy by pooling endowed and special funds, while our grants to registered charities... |
| Community Foundation of Greater Rochester | To enhance the quality of life, the foundation is committed to act as the center for philanthropy and serve as the community’s endowment builder and grant maker by: attracting charitable... |
| Community Foundation of Greenville | To enhance the quality of life of citizens of Greater Greenville, South Carolina, by linking philanthropic leadership, charitable resources and civic influence with needs and opportunities in the community |
| Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties | To provide support for programs and projects that: offer the greatest opportunity for positive and significant change in the community; identify and enhance local strengths to address and provide creative... |
| Community Foundation of Jackson County | To promote philanthropy in Jackson County. The foundation is a community-focused organization dedicated to: building visionary partnerships with donors and local service organizations; trustworthy stewardship of gifts; providing funds to... |
| Community Foundation of Jackson Hole | To enhance philanthropy and strengthen the sense of community in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, area by providing a permanent source of funding and other support for nonprofit organizations and scholarship... |
| Community Foundation of Monroe County | To enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Monroe County through permanent endowments |
| Community Foundation of Morgan County | The mission of the Community Foundation of Morgan County is to connect donors and their charitable giving with our evolving community needs in order to enhance the quality of life... |
| Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County | To encourage philanthropy, assist donors in building an enduring source of charitable assets, and exercise leadership in directing resources to enhance the quality of life of the residents of Muncie... |
| Community Foundation of North Florida | To enhance the quality of life in north Florida through the promotion of philanthropy and the support of charitable organizations |
| Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia | To enhance the quality of life in the northwest Georgia region for both present and future generations by: promoting philanthropy; building and maintaining permanent endowment funds to be used for... |
| Community Foundation of Orange County | The foundation, through effective use of its endowment, seeks to enhance the quality of life for those who live and work within Orange County by encouraging the growth of a... |
| Community Foundation of Orillia and Area | To work with private donors, service clubs, businesses and charitable organizations to stimulate charitable giving, establish permanent endowment funds and support initiatives which make an ongoing difference and enhance the... |
| Community Foundation of Portage and District | To enhance and enrich the quality of life in Portage la Prairie and District by supporting and promoting philanthropy through endowment building, donor services, grantmaking and community leadership |
| Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island | To provide individuals, organizations and groups with opportunities to enhance the quality of life in Canada’s Prince Edward Island communities through the creation of endowment funds |
| Community Foundation of South Lake County | To provide leadership to enhance the quality of life in South Lake County by identifying community needs and seeking philanthropic support as permanent funding to meet those needs |
| Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana | To enhance the quality of life in Southwest Louisiana by becoming a strong and effective catalyst for building philanthropy for present and future generations |
| Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge | To enhance the quality of life by meeting needs and inspiring philanthropy in the community |
| Community Foundation of the Great River Bend | To enhance the quality of life in the communities served by encouraging permanent charitable giving to meet the needs of present and future generations. Giving is primarily for cultural activities,... |
| Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula | To enhance the quality of life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The foundation provides its own UP-wide philanthropy and that of its geographic affiliate members through growth of permanent... |
| Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands | To serve both donors and nonprofit organizations of the Virgin Islands that want to ensure the highest quality of life for both present and future generations. The foundation’s primary goal... |
| Community Foundation of Union County | To enhance the quality of life for all the citizens of Union County, and to provide a vehicle whereby gifts of any size might be invested and used in perpetuity... |
| Community Foundation of West Alabama | To connect people and resources to the real needs of the community. The foundation strives to help build partnerships between donors, nonprofit organizations and the community at large in order... |
| Community Foundation of West Georgia | To enhance the quality of life for the people of the West Georgia area |
| Community Foundation Partnership | To enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Lawrence and Martin Counties, Indiana, in the areas of education, health and human services, civic and historical affairs, the arts... |
| Community Trust of Wellington | To enhance the Wellington region by funding projects related to the arts, health care, environment and recreation in New Zealand |
| Coral Gables Community Foundation | To promote programs and initiatives that enhance the quality of life for people living and working in Coral Gables, Florida |
| Corte Madera Community Foundation | To promote events, facilities, programs and services that build community spirit and enhance Corte Madera’s small-town character |
| Cumberland Community Foundation | Giving together to enhance the quality and spirit of community life. |
| Dallas Foundation | To serve as a resource, leader and catalyst for philanthropy by providing donors with flexible means of making gifts to charitable causes that enhance the community |
| DeKalb County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in DeKalb County by proactively addressing community needs and expanding, managing and distributing philanthropic resources |
| Dickinson Area Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in local communities by meeting the changing needs with endowments for good and forever. To that end, the foundation makes grants in broad program... |
| Fondation communautaire de Hearst Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life and sustainability of the Hearst community in Canada by distributing the revenue generated by the fund’s management to a wide range of community organizations,... |
| Fort Atkinson Community Foundation | To receive donations for educational, cultural, charitable or benevolent purposes and use them to benefit residents and enhance the quality of life in the Fort Atkinson area |
| Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky | To support collaborative work in the local community around a common vision that enhances the lives of all citizens and to create a permanent endowment to serve as a catalyst... |
| Foundation for MetroWest | To connect philanthropic opportunity with demonstrated need in Metrowest. The foundation promotes philanthropy in the region, helps donors maximize the impact of their local giving, serves as a resource for... |
| Gorge Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the Columbia River Gorge by building permanent charitable endowments to help fund the long-term needs and opportunities in our communities |
| Grand Island Community Foundation | Established to accept charitable contributions in order to preserve and enhance the quality of life in Central Nebraska and to assist donors in realizing their charitable goals |
| Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life and facilitate philanthropy in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska and Leelanau counties, Michigan |
| Gratiot County Community Foundation | To enhance the lives of Gratiot County citizens by identifying and addressing needs within the county, building permanent endowments, and distributing grants in the fields of the arts, education, environment,... |
| Greater Edwardsville Area Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the Greater Edwardsville area by: leading the development of collaboration and understanding among all members of the community; ascertaining community needs and opportunities;... |
| Greater Greenbrier Valley Community Foundation | To create a tradition of charitable giving and enhance the quality of life of the people of the Greenbrier Valley by accepting contributions, managing funds and making charitable distributions |
| Greater Lynchburg Community Trust | To enhance the quality of life in the communities served by establishment of permanent endowments for the cities of Lynchburg and Bedford and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and... |
| Greater Salina Community Foundation | To enhance quality of life, both today and in the future, by enabling donors to fulfill their charitable desires, building a permanent endowment, facilitating prudent management and care of funds,... |
| Greene County Community Foundation | To promote philanthropy and provide stewardship and leadership to enhance the use of regional resources to meet charitable needs |
| Greenville Area Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the Greenville area. To do this the foundation will attract and hold permanent endowment funds from a wide range of donors; it will... |
| Haida Gwaii Community Foundation | To enhance environmentally sustainable social and economic benefits to Haida Gwaii, Canada, and to advocate and support an Islands community characterized by respect for cultural diversity, the environment and a... |
| Hancock County Community Foundation | To provide philanthropic leadership to effectively manage and direct the resources of donors in ways which enrich and enhance the quality of life in Hancock County |
| Hillingdon Community Trust | To enhance the quality of life and opportunities available to communities in the six southern wards of the London Borough of Hillingdon, by strengthening the voluntary sector and contributing to... |
| Homer Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the residents of the greater Homer area by promoting philanthropic and charitable activities |
| Howard County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Howard County, Missouri, through grants supporting human services, education and humanities |
| Hudson Community Foundation | To preserve and enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Hudson, Ohio, now and for generations to come |
| Kenosha Community Foundation | To provide philanthropic leadership to address the changing needs of the people of Kenosha County in order to enhance their quality of life. The foundation is structured to receive charitable... |
| Keweenaw Community Foundation | To promote philanthropy, develop and manage permanent endowments from a broad range of donors, and award charitable grants that enhance quality of life in the Keweenaw area |
| Key Biscayne Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for all members of the Key Biscayne, Florida, community |
| Kimberley and District Community Foundation | To enhance the social welfare, health, education, the environment, the arts, culture and recreation in the community of Kimberley, Canada |
| Lafayette Community Foundation | To invest in programs and projects that promote and enhance the civic, cultural, educational and environmental health of Lafayette and beyond |
| Lapeer County Community Foundation | The foundation builds and manages permanent endowment funds from a wide variety of donors to provide grants that enhance the quality of life in Lapeer County, now and for future... |
| Legacy Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Lake County, Indiana, now and for generations to come. The mission is achieved by building a community endowment, addressing needs... |
| Lenawee Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Lenawee County, Michigan by: identifying and addressing current and anticipated community needs; and raising, managing and distributing funds for charitable... |
| Lincoln Community Foundation | To enrich the quality of life in the greater Lincoln, Nebraska, area by responding to emerging and changing needs and sustaining existing organizations and institutions through grants for education, arts... |
| Long Island Community Foundation | To enhance the well-being of the people and communities of Long Island |
| Madison County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Madison County, Indiana, by attracting charitable gifts, making philanthropic grants, and providing responsible financial stewardship and community leadership |
| Madison Foundation | To preserve and enhance a special quality of life for all Madison residents by promoting and enabling local philanthropy |
| Main Street Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for both present and future generations in Bristol, Burlington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington and Wolcott. We accomplish our mission by encouraging and promoting: Gift Planning;... |
| Marin Community Foundation | The foundation’s mission is to encourage and apply philanthropic contributions to help improve the human condition, embrace diversity, promote a humane and democratic society, and enhance the community’s quality of... |
| Marquette County Community Foundation | To support organizations involved with the arts, education, health, human services and other projects and programs that enhance life |
| Marshall County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Marshall County by providing funds through a grantmaking process for humanitarian, cultural, educational, recreational and environmental activities. The general policy of the foundation... |
| Mercer County Civic Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in Mercer County, Ohio, by cultivating, managing, and disbursing charitable resources |
| Mid-Shore Community Foundation | To connect private resources with public needs to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties, Maryland |
| Mirboo North and District Community Foundation | To advance charitable giving and business, and enhance the socail & ecinimic strength of our community,encourage philanthropy & grow our legacy through good stewardship and effective partnerships, for the... |
| Morris Community Foundation | To provide vision for Morris County and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance quality of life |
| Mount Angel Community Foundation | Giving to supplement and enhance community support and involvement in Mt. Angel, Oregon. Scholarship awards are based on community service, academic achievement and citizenship. |
| Mt. Lebanon Community Endowment | To build, promote and manage a permanent fund that sustains and enhances the quality of life in Mt. Lebanon |
| Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Isabella County, both current and future generations, by holding and attracting permanent, endowed funds from a wide range of donors,... |
| North Georgia Community Foundation | To support nonprofit organizations and donors by building, distributing and preserving philanthropic assets to enhance the spirit of community and the quality of life of the region |
| North Suburban Community Foundation | To raise and distribute charitable gifts for the benefit of the northern suburbs of Ramsey County to enhance their quality of life |
| Northern Piedmont Community Foundation | To build philanthropic capital to enhance and preserve the quality of life in Culpepper, Fauquier, Rappahannock and Madison counties, and to strengthen the region’s nonprofit organizations |
| Northville Community Foundation | To enhance and enrich life in the Northville community. The foundation supports nonprofit organizations, educational programs, health-related issues for youth and seniors, historic preservation and the arts. |
| Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the citizens of its service area by: identifying community needs and opportunities with a focus on the arts, education, the environment, health and... |
| Ocean Reef Foundation | To enhance responsible and effective philanthropy throughout the community |
| Orcas Island Community Foundation | To foster philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on Orcas Island |
| Osprey Community Foundation | To distribute grants to charitable organizations in the Nelson area of Canada, which help feed the hungry, support the arts, improve the health and safety of citizens, and enhance youth... |
| Otsego County Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the Otsego County, Michigan, area now and for future generations by building community endowment, awarding grants to address community needs,... |
| Outer Banks Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the Outer Banks community by providing leadership and opportunities through the development and utilization of donor funds |
| Pella Community Foundation | To preserve the heritage and enhance the quality of life for the people of Pella by facilitating the transfer of funds from the hands of people who wish to help... |
| Phelps County Community Foundation | To encourage and provide opportunities for charitable giving, to manage and distribute the funds in a responsible manner and to enhance the quality of life for the people of Phelps... |
| Pickaway County Community Foundation | To enhance the Pickaway County, Ohio, community through philanthropy |
| Portland Foundation | To enhance the quality of life for the people of Jay County, Indiana, now and for generations to come, by building community endowment, effecting significant impact through grantmaking, and providing... |
| Prince George Community Foundation | To provide the opportunity to make a lasting charitable donation to enhance our community, forever |
| Racine Community Foundation | The mission of the Racine Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for the people of Racine County by encouraging and providing opportunities for charitable giving and by... |
| Richland County Foundation | To improve and enhance the quality of life in Richland County through strategic philanthropy and community leadership |
| Richmond Community Foundation | To enable others to enhance the quality of life in Richmond, in all its cultural and ethnic diversity, by the attraction and prudent stewardship of donated capital, distributing the income... |
| Rose Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life in the greater Denver community through leadership, resources, tradition and values |
| Rush County Community Foundation | To enrich and enhance the quality of life in Rush County, Indiana |
| San Juan Island Community Foundation | To enhance the quality of life on San Juan Island, Washington, by encouraging philanthropy, growing an endowment for purposeful grants to community charitable organizations, and building partnerships that effectively connect... |
| San Marcos Community Foundation | To assist San Marcos, California, charities and public service organizations enhance their service to meet the social needs of the community |
| Santa Barbara Foundation | To enrich the lives of the people of Santa Barbara County through philanthropy. To achieve this mission, the foundation will: serve as a leader, catalyst and resource for philanthropy; strive... |