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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “acceptance”
Where the money went
Largest: $400,000 to PROTEUS FUND INC — support for the rights, faith, and democracy collaborative fund to combat religious exemptions and enact positive protections and acceptance.
Largest: $50,000 to GG — support of increasing gender diversity from non us universities in the areas of science and engineering by supplementing the post-doctoral research stipend offered at the universit…
Rural Advancement Foundation InternationPittsboro, NCCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $225,930 · through 2023Largest: $66,854 to CARRBORO FARMERS MARKET — support farmers markets to be able to accept and double the value of snap and other benefits used at farmers markets.
Largest: $90,000 to Alliance for Full Acceptance — small grants & creating change scholarship program
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $490,000 · through 2022Largest: $70,000 to WE THE PEOPLE MI — will implement the advancing detroit's "right relationship aesthetic project as detailed in the accepted grant proposal, and will support a network of cultural organizers to develo…
Albert B Sabin Vaccine InstituteWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $501,316 · through 2023Largest: $142,297 to Johns Hopkins University — vaccine acceptance research site
Largest: $2.5M to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — toward the costs of launching a research consortium to drive acceptance and uptake of covid-19 vaccination efforts and provide insights to counter health mis- and dis- information
Largest: $1,800 to CARTER SHED — graduating high school senior at governor livingston high school in berkeley heights, nj accepted to higher education institution and pursuing a career in education or the sciences…
Largest: $7,500 to THE RELATIVES INC — our vision: we aim to be a relative to the vulnerable youth and young adults in our community, by enabling them to achieve independence youth and young adults in our community, by …
Largest: $978,000 to AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BISEXUALITY — research, education and community-building to reduce discrimination and increase acceptance of bisexual people.
Stupski FoundationSan Francisco, CA
6 matching grants · $146,000 · through 2023Largest: $65,000 to WISE Health — to support work to increase engagement, awareness, and acceptance of serious illness care services in the black community in san francisco.
Association of Public HealthBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $699,499 · through 2024Largest: $395,310 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA — leveraging the administrative infrastructure of the university of south florida, the subrecipient, will establish and implement a scholarship program uniquely targeted to drph cand…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →