The Institute's annual funding comes from a combination of private donors, grant-making foundations, government science agencies, and companies affiliated with its business network.

As an operating, rather than a grant-making foundation, the Council supports programs that it initiates and also works with partner organizations.

Starting next week, working in an operating and grant-making foundation, I will have to retrain parts of my brain.

The material difference is between "operating" foundations and "grant-making" foundations.

Today it is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

The council is an association of more than 1,400 grant-making foundations and corporations.

The center, which follows more than 44,000 grant-making foundations, based its 1998 estimates on survey responses from about 1,000 foundations.

The proceeds from that sale were applied to fund an endowment and create a new grant-making foundation.

They act as grant-making foundations, giving grants to support development projects.

"We will be a grant-making foundation, which will support a variety of artistic endeavors."