Sentence examples for biggest foundation from inspiring English sources

The biggest foundation in the world, completely devoted to the well-being of people yet reluctant to engage on issues related to the environment.

The state cut its support by roughly 87percentto to $2,000, and one of the ballet's biggest foundation supporters, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, was forced to cut off the Oakland company completely as its endowment slipped to less than $5 billion from a high of $13 billion.

The Rockefeller Family Fund is by no means the biggest foundation in the country but it's a prestigious one, said Brulle.

The 121 biggest foundations had assets of $126 billion at the end of 1997.

Over all, the median decline of the biggest foundations' assets was only 0.3percentt.

Some of the biggest foundations base their grant-giving on a three-year average of their assets.

The nation's biggest foundations and richest people slowly roused themselves to action, and for three decades we haltingly applied a series of fixes and reforms.

He talked some of America's biggest foundations and the state of Michigan into rescuing the first-rate collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts DIAA) by pledging $816m to protect it from the city's creditors.

Over the past 40 years there have been several recessions, but just one year in which total giving has fallen in America: 1987, the year of the "Black Monday" stockmarket crash.So it was with great interest that your columnist listened to the views of two of the heads of America's biggest foundations, who spoke at New York's 92nd Street Y on January 4th.

She's the chair of the secretive Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (named after her late mother), which ranked among the five biggest foundations by giving in 2012, giving out $367 million.

The biggest foundations funding health research are generally confining their attention to long-neglected communicable diseases.