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<p>Moving <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Educational_foundations_in_the_United_States&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Educational foundations in the United States (page does not exist)">Category:Educational foundations in the United States</a> to <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Educational_foundations_based_in_the_United_States&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Educational foundations based in the United States (page does not exist)">Category:Educational foundations based in the United States</a> per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox organization<br /> | name = Danforth Foundation<br /> | formation = {{start date|1927|df=y}} <br /> | founder = William H. Danforth<br /> | founding_location = St. Louis<br /> | dissolved = {{end date and age|2011}} <br /> | type = Private nonprofit foundation<br /> | tax_id = &lt;!-- or | vat_id = (for European organizations) --&gt;<br /> | registration_id = &lt;!-- for non-profit org --&gt;<br /> | status = Defunct<br /> | purpose = Grants funds exclusively to the St. Louis region<br /> | headquarters = St. Louis<br /> | location = <br /> | coords = &lt;!-- {{coord|LAT|LON|display=inline,title}} --&gt;<br /> }}<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Danforth Foundation&#039;&#039;&#039; was one of the largest private nonprofit foundations in the [[St. Louis]] Metropolitan region. It closed its doors in 2011 after 84 years of operation and more than a billion dollars in grants distributed.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts-culture/2011-06-27/danforth-foundation-has-ended-its-giving-but-not-its-influence |access-date=2021-02-24 |title=Danforth Foundation has ended its giving but not its influence |first=Dale |last=Singer |publisher=[[KWMU|St. Louis Public Radio]] | work=[[St. Louis Beacon]] |date=June 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825033925/http://www.stlbeacon.org/arts-life/171-Giving_Back/111190-danforth-foundation-has-ended-its-giving |archive-date=2011-08-25}}<br /> &lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Established in 1927 by [[Ralston Purina]] founder [[William H. Danforth]] and his wife,&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.purina.com/company/Danforth.aspx |title=WILLIAM H. DANFORTH, FOUNDER |accessdate=2008-11-03 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612165623/http://www.purina.com/company/Danforth.aspx |archivedate=2008-06-12 |url-status=dead }}&lt;/ref&gt; the Danforth Foundation grants funded exclusively to the St. Louis region. In the 1950s and 1960s, it funded many projects involving religion and higher education. The Danforth Fellows Program, which supported graduate study in religion for scholars in other fields, was folded into the [[Society for Values in Higher Education]]. In 1973, [[Methodist]] minister and theologian [[Merrimon Cuninggim]] resigned as executive director because of a perceived conflict of interest from a $60 million grant to [[Washington University in St. Louis]] authorized by [[William Henry Danforth|William Henry Danforth Jr.]], who was then both chairman of the foundation and chancellor of the university.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E2DB1739F936A35752C1A963958260|title=Merrimon Cuninggim, 84, Minister and Educator|accessdate=2008-11-03 | work=The New York Times | date=1995-11-05}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Danforth Chapels]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=23400051 FoundationCenter.org: Danforth Foundation Shifts Focus, Cuts Staff]<br /> *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080503092012/http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/forumscp/Danfrth.html MuOhio.edu: About the Danforth Foundation]<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Educational foundations based in the United States]]<br /> [[Category:Defunct organizations based in Missouri]]<br /> [[Category:Non-profit organizations based in Missouri]]<br /> [[Category:Organizations based in St. Louis]]<br /> [[Category:Ralston Purina]]<br /> [[Category:Organizations established in 1927]]<br /> [[Category:Organizations disestablished in 2011]]<br /> [[Category:1927 establishments in Missouri]]<br /> [[Category:2011 disestablishments in Missouri]]</div>

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