Compton Foundation

To transform the way we live.

Overview

Established in 1946 Compton Foundation fosters positive and sustainable models of change. Compton Foundation is a family foundation based in the U.S. and working with a global perspective. Compton Foundation's mission highlights a sense of urgency and a willingness to take risks in order to transform the way we live. Bringing forth a positive future requires innovative ways of understanding and naming the problems we face as well as new methods for collaborating to solve them. To accomplish the mission they provide financial resources to galvanize the movement for progressive and democratic social change and on July 28 2017 our grantmaking totaled 3.6 million.