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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 “agenda”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to Pacific Community Ventures — to further the agenda of the organization.
Largest: $1.3M to NEW VENTURE FUND — for the public interest technology university network challenge fund for subgranting for curricula development, research agendas, and experiential learning programs to create a pip…
Largest: $500,000 to BLACK DIRECTORS HEALTH EQUITY AGENDA — 81461 supporting the 2024 black directors health equity agenda national summit -- health equity 2024: charting our course
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
39 matching grants · $22.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS INC — to support a research agenda to identify effective programs and policies focused on ending homelessness
Largest: $335,000 to Chapin Hall Center for Children — support 21st century community-based prevention research agenda
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
26 matching grants · $9.0M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS — enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of protecting sovereignty through development/dissemination of educational materials and tribally driven research that promote…
Largest: $497,769 to Urban Institute — to create a learning agenda and grants program designed to support research that addresses critical gaps in what is known about the relationship between k-12 education and long-ter…
Largest: $50,487 to TRYING TOGETHER — infant toddler early intervention policy and research agenda
Largest: $550,000 to USAWA AGENDA — general operating support
Largest: $299,833 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — to evaluate the existing home and community based services evidence base and develop a research agenda aimed at decreasing nursing home utilization and spending.
Largest: $1.5M to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — to support the grantee's project, digital id initiative and fund, working on identity management systems that set an affirmative agenda at a global scale, enforcing accountability …
Largest: $489,400 to Digital Promise Global — for development of the inclusive innovation center and openscied research agenda
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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 →