• Thursday, May 24, 2012
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The Nation's 10 Wealthiest Foundations

  2010 assets
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) $36,700,000,000
Ford Foundation (New York) 10,881,598,073
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) 8,850,000,000
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.) 1 7,309,516,689
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) 7,090,000,000
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) 5,900,000,000
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) 5,600,000,000
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.) 5,500,000,000
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York) 5,200,000,000
Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis) 2 4,753,904,972
   
Note: Figures are for the year ending December 31, 2010 and are estimated.  
1 Figures are for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust.  
2 Asset figure for 2010 is based on holdings of Eli Lilly and Company stock, as listed in the foundation's federal Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and represents approximately 95 percent of the foundation's assets.