1.   Charles Schwab and Ariel Mutual Funds sponsored the survey.

2.   NPR sponsored the survey with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

3.   Schwab said it joined Ariel in sponsoring the survey because it wanted more information on what it saw as an underserved market.

4.   The individual state researchers then forwarded their findings to Equal Justice, a liberal public-interest group that sponsored the survey.

5.   The Kaiser Family Foundation is a California-based health care philanthropy that sponsored the survey as part of its program on entertainment media and public health.

6.   The group provides insurance and other financial services and operates charitable programs, and it often sponsors surveys on ethical and other issues.

7.   The survey was sponsored by two think tanks here, the Pew Research Center and the Brookings Institution.

8.   The survey was sponsored by Women of Silicon Valley, a joint project of the Community Foundation for Women and Collaborative Economics, two Silicon Valley organizations.

9.   The survey was sponsored, among others, by Toyota.

10.   The survey was sponsored by the Greater New York Savings Bank, which like many other New York area banks hopes to profit from the dislocations in the merger.