Andrew Mellon Foundation - funds many projects in the fields of Research in IT, Scholarly Communications, and HE and Scholarship. Has funded JSTOR, ARTstor and Ithaka

[uncluttered homepage + section menu (including About the Foundation) and list of grant areas made this site v easy to use for research purposes]

The Hewlett Foundation works in many fields, and in education has technology as one of 5 priority areas.The Foundation has collaborated with the Mellon Foundation to develop the field of open courseware.

[too-busy and slightly confusing homepage, but LH nav listed all sections and made drilling down easy. Info on funded programmes not that easy to find - you have to dig around in reports, newsletters etc]

Open Education Resources (OER) a grant programme of the Hewlett Foundation supporting things like the Creative Commons licence, open source software and free online course resources. Works worldwide with an emphasis on urban and developing world ed communities.

JSTOR - an online library of scholarly journals. Grant aided by Mellon Foundation 

ARTstor - subscription based online digital library of art images. Grant aided by Mellon Foundation

Ithaka - NFP which grant-aids innovative projects in order to encourage use of ITs in HE.Supported projects include the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education and research on digital image use in HEIs, journal transition to digital format, and mass digitisation & the future of the book. Grant aided by Mellon Foundation

Educause is a US NFP which promotes technology enhanced learning projects in HE and runs the online journal Educause Quarterly.  Emphasis on supporting networks of elearning professionals

Information Society Technologies, an EU funding agency supporting eLearning research projects - eg, projects supporting lifelong learning, looking at collaborative learning, and researching the interplay between pedagogy, cognitive science, and computer science.

Electronic Journal of eLearning (EJEL) - since 2003 - downloadable papers describing wide range of eLearning projects in UK and Europe 

JISC eLearning Innovation programme supports a number of projects including ones on the use of mobile and wireless devices and transactional learning environments in professional and vocational courses. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) is an agency of the UK HEFCs.JISC eLearning Innovation programme supports a number of projects including ones on the use of mobile and wireless devices and transactional learning environments in professional and vocational courses. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) is an agency of the UK HEFCs. 
Good list of case studies at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_innovation/eli_casestudies.aspx

FutureLab - UK NFP which seedfunds Tech-enhanced education projects and researches new approaches to education (pre and post 16) List of projects on website

UltraLab is a UK NFP which "aims to make learning delightful thru the application of new technology". Ultralab researches and incubates new tech projects in education, including the eViva KS3 portfolio project and the Digital Teacher Network (www.digitalteachernetwork.org/portal/)

Curverider is a social networking platform business which developed the free, open source Elgg network/blog/portfolio application for educators ( http://elgg.org/ )
and the Elgg Spaces platform for institutions

The Teaching and Learning Research Programme of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) supports research projects, including in Technology Enhanced Learning - current projects include research on game authoring environment, personalised workpolace learning, and supporting sign language users via TEL

 e-Learning Centre - a library of workplace elearning projects

e-Learning Centre - a large library of articles, papers and reports on elearning projects (workplace and academic) and technologies