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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 “aerial”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.1M to PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC — to conduct a six-month pilot test of the aerial investigative research program to assist the baltimore city police department.
Largest: $750,000 to WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — to support the kaza-tfca aerial wildlife survey
Largest: $8,500 to AERIAL DANCE CHICAGO — general operations
George Kaiser Family FoundationTulsa, OKCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $8.8M · through 2023Largest: $6.7M to Oklahoma State Unviersity — center for advanced aerial mobility: launchpad research&tech center(build back better)
Largest: $1.7M to HAITIAN FOUNDATION — all grants made by haiti air to the haitian foundation are for full support of the haitian foundation's mission (providing emergency aerial medical transportation in haiti) coverin…
Largest: $160,000 to US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST — aerial survelliance program
Largest: $25,000 to Empowered Movement Aerial — scholarship and outreach programming
Largest: $5,500 to EMPOWERED MOVEMENT AERIAL — one year of operating support for youth aerial arts classes and performances
Largest: $50,850 to NH AUDUBON — 10,000 toward aerial insectivore study and 6,000 for cliff swallow study
Mechanical Contractors Assn ofBettendorf, IACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $36,200 · through 2025Largest: $13,200 to AERIAL PROMOTIONS INC — support air show event and mission
Liberty and LightProvidence, UTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $103,068 · through 2024Largest: $51,534 to AERIAL RECOVERY — grant to support operations at aerial recovery
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $135,174 · through 2023Largest: $53,755 to KEYSTONE AERIAL SURVEYS INC — san juan river aerial surveys
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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 →