As nonprofit organizations have taken on a larger role in America, the Foundation has increased its support of organizations and activities that strengthen the nonprofit sector's efficiency and accountability, improve its statistical and analytical data base, and extend its outreach to other parts of society.

Among organizations serving the nonprofit sector that received support this year were:

• the Foundation Center, the principal national repository of data on private philanthropy. The center collects information on the grant activities of private foundations and makes it publicly available through a regional system of libraries. It also publishes the Foundation Directory, which contains listings on the 4,000 foundations in the United States with assets of $1 million or more. The center received a grant of $420,000 for general support of its programs and to assist its relocation to larger and more efficient quarters in New York.

• Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organizations, the nation's leading source of research on the structure, behavior, and governance of philanthropic enterprises. The program conducts studies on such topics as the functioning and role of the nonprofit sector, the characteristics of the philanthropic labor force, trends in giving patterns of the