Sentence examples for the 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.

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.

The City College of New York has received $3.7 million from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, which the college described as the largest foundation grant in its 156-year history.

Knight Foundation funding represents one of the largest foundation investments Guardian News & Media has received and reinforces the organization's commitment to integrating transparent foundation support as part of its overall business model.

Starr remains one of the largest foundations in the country.

The largest foundations may be able to accomplish goals on a scale not seen since the Carnegies and Rockefellers created their foundations earlier in the last century, she said.

By contrast, some of the largest foundations, like the Gates fund and the $13 billion Ford Foundation, invested in these stocks, according to the latest tax returns.

In philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where Mr Gates now works day-to-day, immediately became one of the largest foundations in the world.

These were big deals each now ranks among the largest foundations in the world.