Foundation Donors
16
1. Abelard Foundation-East
2. Allegany Franciscan Ministries
3. Allen Hilles Fund
4. American Red Cross
5. Andrus Family Fund
6. Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
7. Bingham Program
8. California Wellness Foundation
9. Catholic Charities Community Service
10. Chicago Community Trust
11. Chicago Foundation for Women
12. Common Counsel Foundation
13. Communities Creating Healthy Environments
14. Consortium for Worker Education
15. Crossroads Fund
16. Dade Community Foundation (Re-named The Miami Foundation)
17. Detroit Regional Workforce Fund
18. Diane Middleton Foundation
19. Discount Foundation
20. Eleanor Foundation
21. Elias Foundation
22. Ford Foundation
23. Foundation for the Mid South
24. General Service Foundation
25. Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
26. Haymarket People’s Fund
27. Hiles Fund
28. Hill-Snowdon Foundation
29. Ira DeCamp Foundation
30. John Merck Fund
31. Jovid Foundation
32. Kellogg Foundation
33. Kresge Foundation
34. Left Tilt Fund
35. Liberty Hill Foundation
36. Lily Auchincloss Foundation
37. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
38. Maine Community Foundation
39. Maine Health Access Foundation
40. Maurice Falk Fund
41. Mertz Gilmore Foundation
42. Michigan State Bar Foundation
43. Moriah Fund
44. MoveOn.org
45. Ms. Foundation
46. Nathan Cummings Foundation
47. New York Community Trust
48. New York Foundation
49. New York Women’s Foundation
50. North Star Fund
51. Noyes Foundation
52. Oxfam America
53. Polk Brothers Foundation
54. Public Interest Projects
55. Public Welfare Foundation
56. RESIST
57. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
58. Rockefeller Foundation
59. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
60. Small Planet Fund
61. Snyder Fund
62. Sociological Initiatives Foundation
63. Surdna Foundation
64. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (The Catholic Church)
65. The Funder’s Collaborative
66. Tides Foundation
67. Tiger Baron Foundation
68. Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA)
69. Twenty-First Century Foundation
70. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program
71. United States Conference of Bishops
72. United Way
73. Washington Women’s Foundation
74. Woods Fund
16
ROC’s Confirmed Foundational Donation Totals
Organization / Description / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / Total /Abelard Foundation East / “The Abelard Foundation is a family foundation, with offices on both the east and west coasts, which has been making grants in support of progressive social change since 1958. Abelard Foundation-East (Abelard East) focuses its grantmaking on projects operatingeast of the Mississippi River.” (Foundation Center Website, Accessed at http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/abelardeast/, 12/6/11) / $10,000 (Mich.) / $10,000
(Mich.) / $20,000
Allegany Franciscan Ministries / “This Catholic organization, guided by the mission and rooted in the tradition and vision of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, is a catalyst for systemic change by committing resources and working collaboratively with others to promote physical, mental, spiritual, societal, and cultural well-being in communities served.” (Allegany Franciscan Ministries Website, Accessed at http://www.afmfl.org/about.asp, 12/6/11) / $5,000 (NY) / $100,000
(Miami) / $105,000
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation / “Our interests are in furthering social justice,protecting the environment and supporting sustainable food systems. Our philanthropy is led by Ben & Jerry’s employees who serve on committees that review grants.” (Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.benandjerrysfoundation.org/home.html, 12/6/11) / $15,000 (DC) / $15,000
Bingham Program / The Bingham Program was established in 1932 to “promote health and advance medicine in Maine.” It is administered by Tufts Medical Center, with the guidance of an advisory committee comprised primarily of Maine residents A major focus of the program has been “to improve health service delivery in Maine, particularly in rural areas.” (The Bingham Program Website, Accessed at http://www.binghamprogram.org/Pages/about, 8/5/11) / $5,000 (NY) / $5,000
California Wellness Foundation / The California Wellness Foundation aims to “improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.” (California Wellness Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.calwellness.org/about_us/mission.htm, 8/5/11) / $200,000 (U) / $200,000
Catholic Campaign for Human Development / “The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) established the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the Catholic Church's domestic anti-poverty program, in 1969 … Each year CCHD distributes national grants to more than 300 projects based in local communities. In addition, hundreds of smaller projects are funded through the 25 percent share of the CCHD collection retained by dioceses.” (Catholic Campaign for Human Development Website, Accessed at http://old.usccb.org/cchd/inbrief.shtml, 12/6/11) / $15,000 (Chicago) / $15,000
Catholic Charities Community Service / Catholic Charities Community Services, Archdiocese of New York (CCCS) provides a “comprehensive range of professional human services” in the New York City and lower Hudson Valley areas. (Catholic Charities has many branches across the U.S., and it is unclear which diocese gave to ROC.) (Catholic Charities NY Website, Accessed at http://www.catholiccharitiesny.org/our-agencies/a-z-directory/index.cfm?i=10, 8/5/11) / $189,155 (NY) / $189,155
Chicago Community Trust / The Chicago Community Trust was “built by generations of Chicagoans to support a safe, healthy and productive future for every resident.” In 2010, the Trust and its donors “granted more than $136 million to sustain effective, innovative programs throughout metropolitan Chicago.” (Chicago Community Trust Website, Accessed at http://www.cct.org/about, 8/5/11) / $50,000 (U) / $50,000
Chicago Foundation for Women / “Chicago Foundation for Women is a grantmaking organization dedicated to increasing resources and opportunities for women and girls in the greater Chicago area. To support our philanthropy, the Foundation promotes increased investment in women and girls, raises awareness about their issues and potential, and develops them as leaders and philanthropists.” (Chicago Foundation for Women Website, Accessed at http://www.cfw.org/Page.aspx?pid=202, 12/6/11) / $15,000 (NY) / $15,000
Consortium for Worker Education / The Consortium for Worker Education (CWE) is the nonprofit workforce development arm of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. From 2001 to 2004, CWE managed a special $32 million federally funded Emergency Employment Clearinghouse (EEC) program, providing laid-off 9-11 workers and struggling small businesses with employment services and worker wage subsidies. (Consortium for Worker Education Website, Accessed at http://www.cwe.org/about.php, 8/5/11) / $330,000 (NY) / $330,000
Crossroads Fund / The Crossroads Fund supports “community organizations working on issues of racial, social and economic justice in the Chicago area.” The fund seeks to help people “most affected by and experienced at confronting racial, economic, and social injustice[.]” (Crossroads Fund Website, Accessed at http://www.crossroadsfund.org, 8/5/11) / $5,000 (Chicago) / $5,000
Dade Community Foundation (Re-named The Miami Foundation) / In its history, the Miami Foundation claims to have been entrusted by donors “with more than $220 million … allow[ing] [it] to invest over $10 Million in [the] community each year.” Since 1967, the foundation “has helped hundreds of individuals, families and businesses create personal, permanent and powerful legacies by establishing custom, charitable Funds.” (The Miami Foundation Website, Accessed at http://miamifoundation.org, 8/5/11) / $10,000 (NY) / $10,000 (U) / $10,000 (Mich.) / $30,000
Detroit Regional Workforce Fund / In 2011, the “Knight Foundation joined forces with local public and private funders to launch the Detroit and Southeast Michigan Fund for Innovative Workforce Solutions (The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund).The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund is a regional public/private collaborative that supports partnerships among employers and workforce development partners (workforce partnerships), effects change in the region’s strategic workforce vision, and aligns public and private resources in new ways around workforce development.In addition to the support it receives from the United Way and the collaborative’s funders, The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund also has access to the vast resources of The National Fund for Workforce Solutions and its network of similarly focused organizations.” (Detroit Regional Workforce Fund Website, Accessed at http://www.detroitregionalworkforcefund.org/about.htm, 12/6/11) / $30,000
(Colors -Detroit) / $30,000
Diane Middleton Foundation / “On September 15, 1999 San Pedro Attorney Diane Middleton announced the formation of the Diane Middleton Foundation.… Our focus is to support fundamental change through struggles for economic justice and projects that address community and worker organizing, civil rights including the struggles of undocumented workers, and training a new generation of leaders.” (Diane Middleton Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.dmfgrants.com/aboutdmf.htm, 12/6/11) / $3,000 (LA) / $3,000
Discount Foundation / Since 1996, Discount Foundation “has focused entirely upon alleviating poverty by supporting … programs that elevate wages and create job opportunities, primarily through community and workplace organizing efforts that include strong leadership development and campaigns to affect both public policy and private market forces.” (Discount Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.discountfoundation.org/, 8/5/11) / $20,000 (NY) / $20,000
Eleanor Foundation / The Eleanor Foundation claims more than a century of experience “help[ing] independent working women in Chicago to survive and thrive.” In 2002, the foundation was reconceived “to serve as a dynamic research-oriented and engaged grant-maker that would not only provide financial support to programs that helped our target population, but also would collaborate with those programs to ensure their success.” (Eleanor Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.eleanorfoundation.org/about.php, 8/5/11) / $50,000 (NY) / $50,000
Elias Foundation / The Elias Foundation was established in 1999 “to support progressive organizations whose advocacy and activism is designed to achieve systemic social, political and economic change.” Its grantmaking was initially directed nationally, but now focuses on Westchester County, New York. (Elias Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.eliasfoundation.org/aboutus/overview.htm, 8/5/11) / $8,000 (NY) / $8,000
Falk Foundation / The Falk Foundation seeks to “achieve a tolerant, just and inclusive society by reforming racially discriminatory policies and practices, promoting inclusion, increasing access to opportunity, and ensuring fair allocation of public resources.” The foundation focuses on “social policy related to mental health, minority affairs, civil rights, and health.” (Falk Foundation Website, Accessed at www.falkfund.org, 8/5/11) / $20,000 (NY) / $20,000
Ford Foundation / The Ford Foundation was established in 1936 with an initial gift of $25,000 from Edsel Ford, whose father Henry, founded the Ford Motor Company. During its early years, the foundation “operated in Michigan under the leadership of Ford family members.” After the deaths of Edsel Ford in 1943 and Henry Ford in 1947, nonvoting stock of the Ford Motor Company they bequeathed to the Ford Foundation allowed the foundation to emerge as the “largest philanthropy in the world.” In 2010, the foundation made $457 million in grants. The foundation currently focuses on the following issues: Democratic and Accountable Government; Economic Fairness; Educational Opportunity and Scholarship; Freedom of Expression; Human Rights; Metropolitan Opportunity; Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights; Social Justice Philanthropy; and Sustainable Development. (Ford Foundation Web Site, Accessed at http://www.fordfoundation.org/, Accessed 8/13/11) / $250,000 (NY) / $250,000 (NY) / $650,000 (NY) / $500,000 (U)
$28,571 (Mich.) / $1,678,571
Foundation for the Mid South / The Foundation for the Mid South strives to improve livesin Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The foundation “promote[s] physical and mental well-being in order tocomprehensively improve the health status in the region In order to break the cycle of generational poverty[.]” (Foundation for the Mid South Website, Accessed at http://www.fndmidsouth.org/about/, 8/5/11) / $40,000 (U) / $40,000
General Service Foundation / The General Service Foundation was “founded and endowed by Clifton R. Musser (1869 to 1956,) and his wife, Margaret Kulp Musser (1875 to 1967.) … General Service Foundation dedicates all of our resources to bringing about a more just and sustainable world. In the next five years, we will achieve our goals by nurturing and learning from strategic partnerships, embracing risk and possibility, and aligning every aspect of our organization with our deeply held values and beliefs.” (General Serice Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.generalservice.org/Mission.htm, 12/6/11) / $25,000 (U) / $25,000
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving / The Hartford Foundation claims to be “among the largest of the nearly 700 community foundations in the country.” The Foundation “provide[s]financial and other support that enables people and institutions to serve the community effectively; promote[s] informed charitable giving in order to expand the region's philanthropic resources; and participate[s] actively in efforts to identify important community needs and opportunities, as well as the means to address them.” (Hartford Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.hfpg.org, 8/5/11) / $25,000 (NY) / $15,000 (NY) / $40,000
Hill-Snowdon Foundation / The Hill-Snowdow Foundation aims “to help organizations achieve social justice for their constituents.” The foundation aims “to help organizations do their work, learn about a range of issues impacting low-income families, and build relationships with leaders across the country.” (Hill-Snowdon Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.hillsnowdon.org/ourapproach.asp, 8/5/11) / $10,000 (NY) / $15,000 (NY) / $25,000
Ira DeCamp Foundation / The DeCamp Foundation was established in 1970 by Elizabeth DeCamp McInery in memory of her late husband Ira W. DeCamp. During the last two decades, the foundation “has supported a wide array of organizations within three major program areas: health, social services and education. Grants have been concentrated in the New York metropolitan area.” (Foundation Center Website, Accessed at http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/decamp/, 8/5/11) / $75,000 (NY) / $75,000
John Merck Fund / Serena S. Merck founded The John Merck Fund, a New York charitable trust named for her son, in 1970. For the first sixteen years, the Fund “worked exclusively to support research into children’s developmental disabilities.” Currently, the Fund has four program areas: Developmental Disabilities, Climate and Clean Energy, Environmental Health and Rural New England. (John Merck Fund Website, Accessed at http://www.jmfund.org/about.history.php, 8/13/11) / $50,000 (NY) / $50,000
Jovid Foundation / “The Jovid Foundation's primary interest is in supporting District of Columbia nonprofit organizations that help District residents in or at risk of long-term poverty to become more self-sufficient.
Because the Foundation is small and seeks to make a positive difference, it is particularly interested in funding neighborhood-based efforts that provide programs and services to low-income DC adults that help them obtain and retain employment.“ (Foundation Center Website, Accessed at http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/jovid/, 12/6/11) / $10,000 (DC) / $10,000
Kellogg Foundation / In 1930, W.K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Company, established the W.K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation, focusing on “protecting, nurturing and supporting opportunities for children[.]” By 1980, the foundation was “among the world’s largest private philanthropic organizations,” having “expended nearly $500 million to improve health, agriculture, and education on four continents.” In 2007, the foundation adopted a new mission statement “aimed at refocusing its work on helping vulnerable children, and realigning itself with W.K. Kellogg’s original intent.” By 2008, the foundation’s assets had reached more than $8 billion. (Kellogg Foundation Website, Accessed at http://www.wkkf.org/who-we-are/our-history.aspx, 8/13/11) / $130,000 (NY) / $1,460 (NY) / $117,500 (NY) / $85,000 (NY) / $400,000+ (NY) / $200,000 (NY) / $933,960