Grants

Financial support of these databases comes from the United Way of Monroe County.

To learn more about nonprofit organization and development, contact the Non-profit Resource Center at the United Way: 812-334-8370.

The Foundation Center's database and the Library's Grant Collection can help grassroots groups, non-profit organzations, and individuals search for funding sources from companies and foundations. With these resources, researchers can also

track regional and national trends
improve grant proposals
find out about nonprofit management
increase knowledge of fundraising
learn about finance, endowments, and planned giving

To search the following databases, stop by the main library!

Foundation Center Online Professional

With an unprecedented level of detail on grantmakers and their grants, Foundation Center Online Professional will give you the competitive advantage in finding funders fast. Only Foundation Center Online Professional lets you text-search across their unique database of 990s. You'll have immediate access to exclusive funder portfolios filled with information that can help you work smarter, work faster. Foundation Center Online Professional also includes a database of nearly 100,000 grantmakers and half a million grants

Foundation Grants to Individuals

Quickly search through detailed descriptions of more than 6,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. This unique online database, the only one devoted exclusively to the needs of individuals, is convenient and easy to use! Within seconds you can generate your own list of prospective funder.

Foundation Center Philanthropy IN/Sight

Philanthropy In/Sight® is the Foundation Center's data visualization platform for global philanthropy. The Center developed this interactive mapping tool for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, academics, and others interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today. Philanthropy In/Sight combines the Center's rich data on grantmakers and their grants with familiar Google maps to tell the story of philanthropy through compelling visual portraits.

It reveals patterns of giving, funding relationships, areas where philanthropy has made an impact, and areas where opportunities exist to fill critical needs. With Philanthropy In/Sight, maps can be customized in various ways to: Plot the locations of grantmakers and grant recipients and view detailed information about their activities and grants awarded and received View aggregated grantmaker and grant data Overlay grantmaker and grant data with demographic, socio-economic, and other data Philanthropy In/Sight consists of two unique mapping tools, enabling users to map either grantmakers or grants.

When mapping grantmakers, Philanthropy In/Sight is fed by the Foundation Center's database of information on the full universe of over 103,000 U.S. foundations and grantmaking public charities and a growing number of non-U.S. grantmakers; when mapping grants, Philanthropy In/Sight is fed by the Foundation Center's database of details on more than 2.3 million grants awarded around the world by approximately 25,000 U.S. grantmakers and a growing number of non-U.S. grantmakers to over 188,000 recipients. These same databases power Foundation Directory Online, the Foundation Center's industry-leading prospect research tool for grantseekers.

For more information about grants and fundraising, follow these links:

Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County

The Foundation Center

Grants.gov

Grassroots Fundraising Journal

Indiana Office of Faith Based & Community Initiatives

Indiana Grantmakers Alliance

Indiana Grants HANDbook by The City of Bloomington

Indiana's One Stop Shop

United Way Nonprofit Resource Center

The Cooperating Collection from the Foundation Center is available on a walk-in basis at the Main Library only.
Appointments are encouraged, but not necessary.
Call the Indiana Room (812) 349-3080 to set up a tutorial.