Corporate Grantmakers

Companies choose a variety of ways to accomplish their goals for corporate citizenship and strategic giving:

A corporate foundation is a private foundation that derives its grantmaking funds primarily from the contributions of a profit-making business. The company-sponsored foundation often maintains close ties with the donor company, but it is a separate, legal organization, sometimes with its own endowment, and is subject to the same rules and regulations as other private foundations.

A corporate giving program is a grantmaking program established and administered within a profit-making company. Gifts or grants go directly to charitable organizations from the corporation. Corporate giving programs do not have a separate endowment; their expense is part of the company’s annual budget and usually is funded with pre-tax income.

SECF has more than 30 corporate members representing some of the Southeast's largest companies.  Current SECF corporate members include:

AGL Resources Private Foundation
Alabama Power Foundation
The Blue Foundation For A Healthy Florida
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation
The Caring Foundation of Alabama
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Cox Enterprises
Delta Air Lines Foundation
Equifax Foundation
The Fluor Foundation
Georgia Power Foundation
North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
The HCA Foundation
IBM Corporation
Keeneland Foundation
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Mississippi Power Foundation
The Nordson Corporation Foundation
Regions Financial Corporation Foundation
Scientific Atlanta Foundation
SunTrust Bank, Atlanta Foundation
Synovus Foundation
Wachovia Bank