Funding search · EIN 454025139 · Knoxville, TN
Issachar Fund
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 20
- grants reported
- $894,206
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $27,372
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Grant history
All 20 reported grants, largest first.
- $152,250
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Equipping FutureChristian Thought LeadersIn Academic Health Care Yr 3
- $122,558
Rutgers University · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022
Dean Zimmerman Project- How Can We Know God
- $105,456
Americans for Oxford · New York, NY · 2023
SimplicityBias
- $95,952
Americans for Oxford · New York, NY · 2022
SimplicityBias
- $61,550
Clal - National Jewish Center · New York, NY · 2022
Sinai and Synapses Fellowship Round 2
- $50,000
American Association Advancement Science · Washington, DC · 2023
Engaging FaithCommunities & Informal Science Learning
- $38,731
Barnabas Stewardship Organizatio · Wichita Falls, TX · 2022
Akrofi-Christaller MA Program
- $36,849
Jens Zimmerman · 2024
Mystery ofPersonhood
- $35,475
Barnabas Stewardship Organizatio · Wichita Falls, TX · 2023
Akrofi-Christaller MA Program
- $29,744
University of Texas Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
The Theology ofOpen QuantumSystems
- $25,000
Umbc · Baltimore, MD · 2022
A workshop to integrate three disciplines relevant to to goal directedness in abiogenesis.
- $24,765
Duke Divinity School · Durham, NC · 2022
Factors Reducing Bias in Religious People
- $22,327
Rutgers University · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
Dean Zimmerman Project- How Can We Know God
- $22,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Science of Life Worth Livingto goal directedness in abiogenesis.
- $16,676
University of Texas Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
The Theology ofOpen QuantumSystems
- $15,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
Transformation Ideas:Exploring Science & Religion
- $15,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Transformative Ideas: Exploring Science & Religion
- $14,248
Joel Carpenter · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022
Kwame Bediako and theChanging Center of World Christianity
- $8,233
Yale Divinity School · New Haven, CT · 2024
Recasting Creation
- $2,392
Joel Carpenter · Grand Rapids, MI · 2023
Kwame Bediako and theChanging Center of World Christianity
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