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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 “along”
Where the money went
National Legal Aid and DefenderWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $72,086 to 603 LEGAL AID — nlada received funding for the national telephone abuse prevention project (ntapp) from a cy pres award in krakauer (o/b/o a class of persons) v. dish network, llc. ntapp supports …
Largest: $35,000 to Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Inc — toward avian research and monitoring along the upper texas coast
Scranton Area FoundationScranton, PACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $338,272 to UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA — to support general purposes, along with food assistance and nepa rise
Largest: $60,000 to Friends of the White River — continued support of an education and advocacy program to encourage landowners along the white river to implement restoration plans and habitat enhancement practices and to target …
Ploughshares FoundationHighland Park, IL
14 matching grants · $535,000 · through 2025Largest: $100,000 to DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — $25,000 for earthquake relief in turkey and syria; $75,000 for aid to gaza, the west bank, and israel and for work along the us/mexico border
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2023Largest: $1.6M to ST BERNARD PARISH GOVERNMENT — restoring cypress & tupelo forests along bayou
Largest: $375,000 to TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY — core support for the harold simmons park project to transform the former jesse r. dawson state jail into a community-serving greenspace along the trinity river in dallas
West Harlem Development CorporationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to EVERY VOICE CHOIRS — to support community singing events in mcb9 along with the creation of an intergenerational choirbased at grant houses and scholarships for mcb9 youth during the school year.
Largest: $25,000 to GREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY — to study the use of e-bikes and charging stations along the great allegheny passage, creating an action plan for installation, maintenance, and implementation
Largest: $1.4M to FUNDACAO GETULIO VARGAS — to support the adoption of a territorial governance mechanism along the br-319 corridor in amazonas state, brazil.
Largest: $150,000 to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — to support revitalization work along the lake street corridor
Largest: $240,000 to FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC — to expand the high-speed internet connectivity along the entirety of the 10-mile linear park under miamis metrorail, the underline, by leveraging government support 1:4.
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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 →