• Individuals, either through scholarships or other forms of financial support
• Programs promoting religious or ideological doctrine, such as those principally sectarian in nature
• Lobbying (beyond that allowed by law for charitable organizations)
• Film financing
• Endowments, cash reserves or deficit reductions
• Government agencies
• University-based projects
• Public schools and school districts
• Land, site acquisition, or facilities construction
• Institutions that discriminate on the basis of race, creed, age, gender or sexual orientation in policy or practice
• Grantmaking to other organizations or individuals
• Event sponsorship
• Political campaigns
• Organizations whose mission and work focus on a single municipality, province or state
• Local offices of parent organizations or specific programs within organizations
• Seed funding for a new organization with less than 3 years of operations