The phrase "a handful of foundations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of organizations or institutions that provide support or funding, typically in a philanthropic context.
Example: "The project was made possible by a handful of foundations that believe in our mission to improve education."
Alternatives: "a few foundations" or "several foundations".
There were a handful of foundations, like the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, and lots of family trusts.
Only a handful of foundations and wealthy individuals have the money required to endow, and thereby preserve, our nation's premier news-gathering organizations.
Their findings echo the experiences of a handful of foundations at the vanguard of the movement to provide more operating support to charities over the last 10 years.
At the radical top, however, are a handful of foundations that have begun to approach philanthropy the way a money manager might, considering not only whether a theory of change for a particular program is correct but also whether a grant can result in a good "return" on investment.
Meanwhile, to conduct lab studies of the compound and then formal human safety trials, NCATS was orchestrating a collaboration between several extramural investigators, six NIH institutes, and a handful of foundations launched by parents of children with NPC.
Only a handful of foundations have supported the New Faculty Majority, a new national association that is trying to improve the working conditions of contingent, mostly part-time, faculty.
DATA is supported by donations of $10 million or so from a handful of American foundations formed by celebrity billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros and Ted Turner.
A handful of other foundations, meanwhile, seem to be testing just how porous the divide between private and public investment may be.
To counter what they considered the liberal dominance of the major universities and news organizations, a handful of conservative foundations has helped build a network of organizations to train young members of the movement, most prominently the 51-year-old Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Mr. Lemay would not discuss the value of Mana Contemporary, which is privately held and is part of the Moishe's empire, nor would he say how much the company is spending on the center, which includes a handful of nonprofit foundations but is mostly, as Mr. Lemay puts it, "a business," meant to turn a profit.
A handful of Sackler foundations in the United States have given away tens of millions over the past two decades, and the family's giving goes back even farther, long before OxyContin was created, a point some institutions have raised in defending decisions not to strip the Sackler name from wings or buildings.
