The Funding Research Center (FRC) is located in the Business and Government Information Center on the north mezzanine level of the library. Specialized assistance may be provided while closed in the evenings and weekends by reference staff during these times.

The Washington County Free Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center, the nation's leading authority on philanthropy. WCFL provides free access to grantmaker directories, guides and books on nonprofit management from the Foundation Center and other materials relating to grants.

The library provides in-house access to two databases from the Foundation Center:

• Foundation Directory Online Professional
  updated weekly, this database contains more than 92,000 foundations, corporate donors and grantmaking public charities with complete profiles of the top 20,000 US foundations.
• Grants to Individuals Online
  contains more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers.

• Foundation Center
  www.foundationcenter.org
• Board Source
  www.boardsource.org

• Grants.gov
  http://grants.gov
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
  http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html

• Maryland Nonprofits
  www.marylandnonprofits.org
• Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
  www.abagmd.org
• Enoch Pratt Free Library Grants Collection
  www.prattlibrary.org/locations/grants/index.aspx