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broad field of national social work, or
which conduct or support local re-
search likely to be of national signifl-
canoe, appear to be about so, or about
one-fourth Of the total. These founda-
tions may be roughly divided into five
groups:
Foundations which carry on or sup
port research, experimentation or
other activities il sveral fields:
Brooking Institution.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Commonwealth Fund.
General Education Board.
Harmon Foundation, Inc.
Julius Rosenwald Fund.
Nathan Hofheimer Foundation.
New York Foundation.
Rockefeller Foundation.
Russell Sage Foundation.
Spelman Fund of New York.
Foundations working primarily In
the health field, physical or mental, in
cluding public health and medical re-
search:
American Foundation for Mental
Hygiene.
Brush Foundation.
Cincinnati Children,s Hospital Re-
search Foundation.
Foundation for Positive Health.
Milbank Memorial Fund.
Surfis Fund for the Winifred Master
son Burke Relief Foundation.
Foundations primarily for child well
fare or the education Of children:
Behavior Research Fund.
Child Education Foundation.
Children's Foundation.
Children's Fund of Michigan.
Duke Endowment, Hospital and Or
phen Section.
Elizabeth Mccormick Memorial Fund.
Jpdge Baker Foundation.
Foundations for other special, spe-
cific purposes, including in some cases
both promotion and research:
American Foundation for the Blind.
Baron de Hirsch Fund.
Bureau Of Social Hygiene.
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching.
Economic Foundation.
Genetic Foundation.
Human Betterment Foundation.
John F. Slater Fund.
Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the
Blind.
Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation.
Negro Rural School Fund. Anna T.
Jeanes Foundation.
Payne Fund.
Planning Foundation of America.
Pollak Foundation for Economic Re-
search.
Race Betterment Foundation.
Railway Labor Research Foundation.
Scripps Foundation.
Twentieth Century Fund.
Foundations conducting local re-
search, not specialized, which Is OF
more than local significance:
Bemis- Taylor Foundation.
Buffalo Foundation.
Buhl Foundation.
Chicago Community Trust.
Cleveland Foundation.
Committee of the Permanent Charity
Fund.
Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation.
Helen s. Trounstine Foundation.
Wieboldt Foundation.
Because many foundstio carry on
varied types of work, the division titles
used In such q classification can be
only approximately correct In describ-
ing the fields covered. Nevertheless, the
list will give some indication Of the
lines of interest represented.
Operating Areas Vary.
While these foundations and trusts
have much in common, there Is con.
siderable diversity as to the geographic
cal area in which they operate, in their
methods Of work and, as has been seen,
in the fields chosen for special cultiva-
ton Some, for example, limit their
work to the city In which they are sit
uated; others to the State or Nation,
while the scope OF a few Is Worldwide.
Some are empowered to use only the
income from their principal fund. while
others may distribute both income and
capital: and in few instances time
CASUALLY IS or 80 years. has been set
within which the total amount must
be disbursed. Some engage in no work
as an operating agency, but pursue their
purposes by the making Of grants;
others maintain permanent STATS and
carry on work under their own auspices,
and a few do both. While practically
all are permitted wide latitude as to the
activities in which they may engage,
most of them have, for the time being,
selected broad but specific fields in
which to operate.
A very large proportion of the foun-
dations, 1t will be observed, devote their
funds to research and the support Of
ing among those responsible for founda-
ton programs that these are highly ap-
propriate functions for tax-exempt and
quasi-public institutions of this sort.
And the call for public service of this
type in an age of such kaleidoscope
change as the present, when new knowl-
edge essential to the understanding Of
new social situations lags behind, would
seem to offer ample opportunity for their
resources and powers
Demonstrations-which often include
certain types of research and educa-
tional work and which aim to test
methods and set example rather than
to establish institutions and programs
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also found some favor with the founda-
tions. The latter do not ordinarily en-
gage in relief work nor do they grant
charitable aid to individuals. Follow
ing the principle that ''the endowed
foundation should not relieve contem-
porary society OF its obligation to SIP
port its own day-by-day charitable
work, these foundations do not orci-
narily contribute to the budgets of well