Grumman helped organize the United Way fund on the island and led its corporate givers.

The foundation has been recognized as a top corporate giver in Massachusetts.

Pharmaceutical and technology companies are among the biggest corporate givers because of in-kind donations.

In 1995, with a $400,000 corporate contribution, the company remained the fund's biggest corporate giver.

What counts to modern corporate givers are "funding patterns."

But early responses from corporate givers made them more ambitious, he said.

The largest corporate giver in the states examined was the American Continental Corporation of Phoenix, a land development and building company.

Marketers are listening more closely to what their corporate givers have to say.

But a campaign to raise an equal amount for 140 inner-city schools, primarily from corporate givers, has fallen far short.

Wal-Mart was the largest corporate giver, channeling 1.02 percent of income to philanthropy.