See Council on Foundations under Associations.

Foundation Center maintains the most extensive database (other than the IRS) of foundations of all types in the United States. It maintains a comprehensive search engine on this website, in addition to its Foundation Directory, the Corporate 500, the Corporate Giving Directory, and the Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors, and Philanthropy News Digest.

National Center for Family Philanthropy is a three-year-old nonprofit providing resources and an impressive range of publications to families engaged in philanthropy.

Providence Public Library maintains a short wall of resources for the grantseeker, which may be of interest to the philanthropically inclined as well. Virtually all the Foundation Center publications mentioned elsewhere in Resources are there (and are much too expensive to own yourself). The collection is less geared toward the philosophy of philanthropy (although it does have a 1993 copy of "Tax Law of Charitable Giving", but an essential place to begin a search if in the capital city.

The Rhode Island Foundation. Where else? The Foundation maintains an extensive though not complete collection of annual reports from community and private foundations across the nation, and copies of annual reports and newsletters from Rhode Island nonprofits.