Sentence examples for largest foundation from inspiring English sources

When I became president of Carnegie Corporation in 1997, it was far from the largest foundation; the Foundation Directory put it in sixteenth place.

"We will be the largest foundation in the world devoted to poetry.

For instance, the 5th largest foundation in the country, the Mott Foundation, distributes 16 million dollars a year.

With $37 billion in assets, it is nearly four times the size of the next largest foundation.

In 1924, James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment in Charlotte, one of the largest private foundations in the country and the largest foundation in the Southeast.

A Microsoft executive has been named the new chief executive of the largest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Starr remains one of the largest foundations in the country.

The Rockefeller Foundation, founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1913, ranks among the 20 largest foundations in the country, and later generations have established other large foundations.

Nearly one-third of the 17,000 largest foundations were formed in the past decade, Ms. Renz said.

In addition, the endowments of 9 of the nation's 10 largest foundations fell last year.

Some of our largest foundations were created by individuals who have been described as robber barons.