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Trace Foundation

Name: Trace Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

13
grants reported: $531,879
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $35,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. 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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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 13 reported grants, largest first.

$123,000
Deep South Today · Ridgeland, MS · 2025
General operating grant
$103,625
Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education and Action · 2025
Trace foundation contribution to the joint national observer's corruption and climate reporting project
$50,000
Journalism Development Network · Washington, DC · 2025
Trace foundation grant for occrp work in 2025
$40,000
The Integrity Fellowship and Sanctuary · 2024
Operating grant to support a sanctuary program created by the ifs to enable whistleblowers to flee high risk countries and then help them get to safety in canada
$40,000
The Oo Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating grant for the outlaw ocean project
$40,000
Journalism Development Network · Washington, DC · 2022
Occrp - trace grants; fellowship, 2 grants x $20000
$35,000
Alfred Friendly Press Partners · Columbia, MO · 2022
2022 fellowship support
$25,000
American Foundation for the University of British Columbia · 2022
Donation for grc development and alumni engagement faculty of art
$25,000
The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Polic · 2022
Contribution to assist in the funding of an anti-corruption institute within the international centre for criminal law reform and criminal justice policy
$20,000
The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Polic · 2024
Contribution to assist in the funding of an anti-corruption institute within the international centre for criminal law reform and criminal justice policy.
$15,000
The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Polic · 2023
Contribution to assist in the funding of an anti-corruption institute within the international centre for criminal law reform and criminal justice policy. Sponsorship of the 2024 november conference.
$10,254
Stichting Bellingcat · 2022
Donation - future workshops for underserved areas
$5,000
Berkeley Law - University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Sponsorship - fraud fest 2022

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