Name: The Grainger Foundation Inc.
Address: 100 Grainger Parkway, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Foundation status: Family foundation; independent foundation
Phone: 847-535-2030
URL: www.grainger.com
Email: gjs@grainger.com
EIN: 366192971
Asset Amount: $128,592,354
Total Giving: N/A
Gifts Received: N/A
Expenditures: N/A
Qualifying Distributions: N/A
Giving Activities Include: $128,592,354 for grants
ABOUT
The Grainger Foundation, an independent private foundation based in Lake Forest, Illinois, provides substantive support to a broad range of organizations including educational, medical, cultural, and human services institutions. Incorporated in 1967 in IL as successor to the Grainger Charitable Trust established in 1949.
FUNDING INTERESTS
SUBJECTS: Aquariums, Arts and culture, Basic and emergency aid, Disaster relief, Diseases and conditions, Domesticated animals, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Engineering, Family services, Food banks, Health care clinics, Higher education, Hospital care, Human services, In-patient medical care, Museums, Planetariums, Shelter and residential care, Special population support, Sports, Technology, Youth development,
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: National, California, Canada, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, India, Paraguay, Texas , Illinois
POPULATION GROUPS: Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Low-income people
SUPPORT STRATEGIES: Capital and infrastructure, Capital campaigns , Continuing support, Endowments, Equipment, General support, Professorships, Program support, Research, Scholarships
ORGANIZATION TYPES: Family foundation, Independent foundation
APPLICATIONS/RFPs
The foundation contributes only to pre-selected charitable organizations as determined by its directors and officers. For this reason, and due to staffing constraints, grant requests received from organizations other than those first contacted by The Grainger Foundation cannot be acknowledged.
Application form not required.
Board meeting date(s): Periodically
GIVING LIMITATIONS
Giving on a national basis. No grants to individuals, or for seed money, emergency funds, deficit financing, publications, conferences, or matching gifts; no loans .