Foundation Giving: Yearbook of Facts and Figures on Private, Corporate, and Community Foundations 1997

The 1997 Edition of Foundation Giving provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in foundation grantmaking. The book also summarizes the broader history of the foundation world, documenting the growth and change of grantmaking from 1975 to the present. Over 100 easy-to-read tables and figures cover such topics as: foundation grants, assets and gifts received; the growth of foundation assets and grants and the number of foundations; subject focus of foundation grants; and geographic distribution of foundations and grants awarded.Foundation Giving provides a wealth of summary data and trend information -- important information for anyone interested in the scope and scale of foundation grantmaking.