The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation makes grants in our interest areas of education and entrepreneurship as well as other support. Beginning in 2008, the Foundation's fiscal year will run from January 1 - December 31 (CY2008); to adjust to this calendar, there was a short fiscal year (SY07), which ran from July 1 - December 31, 2007. Previous fiscal years followed a July 1 - June 30 schedule.