Founder: Sir John Templeton
Established in: 1987
Size of endowment: $1.6 billion
Location: West Conshohocken, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA
Number of employees: 60
First year Templeton Prize was given: 1973
Templeton Prize value: £1,000,000 sterling (approximately $1.42 million)
Number of living Templeton Prize Laureates: 16
Total grant payout and charitable activities: $483 million (1987-2008)
Total grant payments: $71 million (2008)
Number of grant requests: 1,486 (2008)
Number of grants: 130 (2008)
Average grant size: $550,000 (2008), with two-thirds under $250,000
Geographical range of grants: International
Year Templeton Press was established: 1997
Number of books published by the Templeton Press: 145 (to date)

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