Add New York to the list of states where education commissioners have accepted free travel from the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the testing company.

SInce 1979, the nonprofit arm of the organization has given over $1 million in grants to local schools, artists, and musicians.

The A.T.&T. Foundation, the company's nonprofit philanthropic arm, makes grants in many areas, including the arts.

The Children's Investment Fund, a London-based hedge fund, has its own $66 million nonprofit arm financed by a portion of the fund's fees.

In 1991 he set up the Odyssoe Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the business, to support environmental research.

In return, Ho-Chunk Inc.'s nonprofit arm and the housing authority gave her down payment grants totaling $20,000.

The nonprofit arm also organizes an American Indian Arts Festival every May and October at the reservation.

With $7.3 billion in revenues last year, the exchange service, a nonprofit arm of the Pentagon, is one of the nation's largest retailers.

Among the projects funded by this nonprofit arm are school construction, bridges, restoration of a monastery, seed distribution and solar heating projects.

Salen Lindblad, like other private operators, has its own nonprofit arm, called the Oceanites Foundation, an educational organization to foster marine preservation.