Timeline of private foundations

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This is a timeline of private foundations.

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1913 May 14 The Rockefeller Foundation is founded.
1930 June The W. K. Kellogg Foundation is founded.
1936 January 15 The Ford Foundation is founded.
1937 The Lilly Endowment is founded.
1937 The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is founded as the Trebor Foundation.[1]
1948 The Pew Charitable Trusts is founded.
1955 The Starr Foundation is founded.
1964 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is founded.
1969 June 30 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is founded.
1970 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is founded.
1972 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is founded.
2000 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is founded.

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Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Foundation), Ford Foundation (Private foundation), The Pew Charitable Trusts (Non-profit), The Rockefeller Foundation (Foundation) and MacArthur Foundation (Private foundation), from January 2004 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[2]

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Rockefeller Foundation and MacArthur Foundation gt.png

Google Ngram Viewer

The comparative chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Novo Nordisk Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stichting INGKA Foundation and Wellcome Trust, from 1936 to 2019.[3]

Novo Nordisk Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stichting INGKA Foundation and Wellcome Trust ngram.png

Wikipedia Views

The comparative chart below shows pageviews on desktop of the English Wikipedia articles Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Stichting INGKA Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Novo Nordisk Foundation, from December 2007 to March 2021.[4]

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Stichting INGKA Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Novo Nordisk Foundation wv.png

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