Keyword: Business Grants
All corporations make contributions of some sort to organizations of some sort. Some make more; some make less. But all do something. It looks nice in their annual report. And some corporations are nice.
Sometimes, too, a corporation may be simpatico with your line of business. When you can match your business with a corporation and its non-profit organization, you've really hit a hole in one. It doesn't happen all that often, but if you find yourself in that circumstance, you will know immediately how to position your grant raising efforts.
The catch: How do you find out what company is giving what to who? Here's the easy part: Go to Corporate Donations Database
URL: www.nptgrantsearch.com/default.asp
This is a searchable database with data on more than 5,500 corporate donations of $1 million or higher.
And it is totally FREE. You pay nothing at all to search this database.
The Corporate Donations Database is a creation of The NonProfit Times, a magazine on nonprofit management, and Noza, Inc., a search and retrieval technology firm. The site lists 1,200-plus different sources that it utilizes to compile its data.
We recommended this site for finding out what firms have made large donations and to whom. You can search by business name, by recipient cause, or by location (city/state). An advanced search also permits screening a search by postal code, donation category (e.g., endowment, memorial, scholarship), scope (local, national, international), and date (1994–present). The results show the name of the contributor (along with a link to a profile on ZoomInfo), donation range, recipient, and other directory-type data.
This is a "first stop site" if you want to find out about large corporate donations.
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