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The California Community Foundation (CCF) is a philanthropic organization located in Los Angeles, California. Foundation Center, an independent nonprofit organization, ranks it among the top 100 foundations in the nation by asset size and total giving. Among all community foundations, CCF is 5th by total giving and 7th by asset size, as of the ...
The James Irvine Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit organization that provides grants to other organizations in California. [1]The foundation was created in 1937 by James Harvey Irvine Sr. (1867–1947), as a charitable organization to hold controlling stock in the Irvine Company, because his intended successor, James Harvey Irvine Jr. (1894–1935) died of tuberculosis in 1935. [2]
Based in Oakland, California, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that focuses on improving the health care system for the people of California, especially low-income Californians. The organization has three main goals: improving access to coverage and care, promoting high-value care, and ...
The Golden Globe Foundation is a nonprofit successor organization to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and is responsible for administering philanthropic activities and grants connected with the Golden Globe Awards. The awards themselves are now owned and operated by Dick Clark Productions following the dissolution of the HFPA on June 12 ...
In 2002 the Osher Foundation began making program development grants of $100,000 a year for up to three years to launch new OLLI programs. The initial focus was on California, which now has OLLI programs at seven University of California and 16 California State University campuses. In 2004 Osher established a National Resource Center (NRC) at ...
The Getty Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California at the Getty Center, awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts". [1] In the past, it funded the Getty Leadership Institute for "current and future museum leaders", which is now at Claremont Graduate University. [2] Its budget for 2006–07 was $27.8 million.
Foundation founder and technology entrepreneur, David Bohnett The David Bohnett Foundation is a private foundation that gives grants to organizations that focus on its core giving areas – primarily Los Angeles area programs and LGBT rights in the United States, as well as leadership initiatives and voter education, gun violence prevention, and animal language research.
The foundation's goals, through the use of grants, are to "improve the lives of children, enable creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems. [3]" As of 2016, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation was the 20th wealthiest foundation in the United States. [2]