Foundation Relations and the Cornell Community


Private Foundations List and Links

This is a list of private, independent foundations that are active with Cornell and/or for which Foundation Relations receives frequent requests for information.

Follow the links below. Many foundations make their interests and guidelines widely available on the Internet. This is now the best way to determine, prior to any conversation with us or with the funder, whether your project might be a match with the foundation’s interests.

Our office would be happy to provide advice and background for anyone interested in approaching the foundations on the list. We also welcome inquiries about other private foundations that are not listed.

*Foundations marked with asterisks specifically indicate that requests be coordinated through the Office of Foundation Relations.

  ANNENBERG, The Foundation
* ATLANTIC Philanthropies, The
  BECKMAN, Arnold and Mabel Foundation
* BRINSON Foundation
  BURROUGHS-WELLCOME Fund
  CARNEGIE Corporation of New York
  CASEY, Annie E. Foundation
* CLINTON, William J. Foundation
* COOKE, Jack Kent Foundation
* COORS, Dallas Morse Foundation
  COULTER, Wallace H. Foundation
* DEDMAN Foundation
  DREYFUS, Camille & Henry Foundation
  DUKE, Doris Charitable Foundation
  ELLISON Medical Foundation
* EMERSON, Fred L. Foundation
* ENERGY Foundation
  FORD Foundation
* FREEMAN Foundation
* GATES, Bill and Melinda Foundation
* GOLDSMITH, Horace W. Foundation
  GRANT, W.T. Foundation
* HARTWELL Foundation
* HEARST, William Randolph Foundation
* HECKSCHER, Foundation for Children
* HELMSLEY, The Leona M. and Harry B. Charitable Trust
  HEWLETT, William & Flora Foundation
* HILTON, Conrad Foundation
* HUGHES, Howard Medical Institute
  JOHNSON, Robert Wood Foundation
  JOYCE Foundation
* KAISER, George Family Foundation
  KAUFFMAN, Ewing Marion Foundation
* KAVLI, The Foundation
* KECK, W.M. Foundation
  KELLOGG, W.K. Foundation
* KNIGHT, John S. & James L. Foundation
* KRESGE Foundation
  LUCE, The Henry Foundation
* LUMINA Foundation for Education
  MacARTHUR, John and Catherine
* MADDIE'S Fund
  McDONNELL James S. Foundation
  McKNIGHT Foundation
* MELLON, The Andrew W. Foundation
* MOORE, Gordon and Betty Foundation
  MOTT, Charles Stewart Foundation
* ONASSIS, Alexander S. Foundation
  PACKARD, David and Lucile Foundation
* PARK Foundation, Inc.
* PEW, The Charitable Trusts
* RAMOS, Angel Foundation
  ROCKEFELLER Foundation
  ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS Fund
* S&G Foundation
* SLOAN, Alfred P. Foundation
  SMITH RICHARDSON Foundation
  SPENCER Foundation
* STARR, The Foundation
  SURDNA Foundation
* TEAGLE, Foundation Inc.
* TEMPLETON, John Foundation
* TRIAD Foundation


Office of Foundation Relations

Cornell University
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Ithaca, NY 14850-4353
Phone: (607) 254-6134
Fax: (607) 254-7166