Scientific Research Expenditures by the Larger Private Foundations |
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$26 million 37 foundations reporting 77 larger foundations Agricultural sciences amount spent APPENDIX D-Continued TABLE Applied and develop applied and developmental applied research ASSETS AND INCOME basic and applied basic research biological sciences Carnegie Carnegie Corporation cent Chart Colleges data from table developmental research Dollar amount educational expenditures for scientific expenditures of 77 fields of science Figures in Thousands Ford Foundation Foundation ¹ foundation accounting foundations in 1953 foundations supported scientific funds for scientific Health agencies Income from assets Internal Revenue Service June 30 market value medical and biological medical sciences National Science Foundation percent of total Physical sciences Social professional schools programs Reporting foundation research and development research by 77 research from 77 research in 1953 Rockefeller Foundation Russell Sage Foundation schedules sciences Social sciences Scientific Research Expenditures smaller foundations Staff research Support of scientific supported scientific research survey tion total expenditures Trust U. S. Bureau
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Page 7 - Subpart 1-15.2, is that type of research which is directed toward increase of knowledge in science. In such research, the primary aim of the investigator is a fuller knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, rather than any practical application thereof.
Page 1 - For purposes of this directory a foundation may be defined as a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization having a principal fund of its own, managed by its own trustees or directors, and established to maintain or aid social, educational, charitable, religious, or other activities serving the common welfare.
Page 6 - Ford contribution is larger than here reported because substantial sums paid to such independent organizations as the Fund for the Advancement of Education and the Fund for the Republic were eventually channeled into scientific research.
Page 5 - Foundation studies are not yet available, but preliminary figures suggest that the national total for scientific research in 1953 was in the neighborhood of $5 billion, of which more than $2 billion was spent by Government agencies.
Page 11 - ... the less emotional but more rewarding fields of cure, prevention and basic research.
Page 4 - In this group of 77 foundations, several are so much larger than the others as to be in a class by themselves.
Page 3 - US Bureau of Internal Revenue. • From Form 990-A, 1950, US Bureau of Internal Revenue.