The present study examined the 1977, 1978, and 1979 IRS 990 tax returns of 227 Florida-based philanthropic foundations in an effort to describe their grant-awarding activity toward institutions of higher education and to ascertain the strength of selected foundation variables in predicting such grant-awarding activity. / Significant descriptive findings were as follows: (1) For each year examined, institutions of higher education received higher average grant awards than other segments of the grant-seeking population. They also increased each year in their percentage share of total grant dollars awarded. (2) Fully 50 percent of Florida foundation grants and grant dollars were awarded out of state. (3) Each year, at least 50 percent of Florida foundation grants and grant dollars were awarded to institutions which had received grants from the same foundations the previous year. (4) Corporate foundations made more grants to higher education per foundation than did independent foundations, but for lesser average amounts. (5) In general, there seemed to be a direct relationship between a foundation's asset size and its number of higher education grant awards. / Following the descriptive analysis, chi-square tests for theoretical proportions and independence were utilized to ascertain whether certain kinds of institutions received disproportionate numbers of grants and whether there was a relationship between the type of institution and the variables of foundation type, asset size, geographical grant-awarding orientation, total annual grants awarded, and the purpose for which the grant was made. It was discovered that institutions did not receive grant awards in proportion to their representation in the population and that there was a relationship between the type of institution and the indentified foundation variables. Such relationship, however, did not prove useful in predicting foundation grant-awarding practices when the question was investigated by means of a discriminant analysis. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3826. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74993 |
| Contributors | WALDRON, EDWARD CLARE, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 154 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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