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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 “altar”
Where the money went
Largest: $20,000 to ALTAR FLY FISHING — staff support
Largest: $35,000 to ALTAR FLY FISHING — general & unrestricted
Largest: $7,661 to FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — altar flowers & foreign &
Joe & Anna Schmitz and Pat & Anna BurkeMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $213,278 · through 2024Largest: $112,500 to Roman Catholic Bishop of Great Falls — altar society at charley creek
The Community Foundation forJacksonville, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $44,451 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — please designate $275 for altar flowers and the balance for general operating support. this grant is made in memory of jerry chappell and george gibbs.
Largest: $10,000 to ALTAR FLY FISHING — general & unrestricted
Largest: $12,500 to Altar of Truth — ministry support
Catholic Community FoundationSt Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $76,046 · through 2024Largest: $50,777 to CHURCH OF ST MARK — endowment gift, general operating, capital improvements, scholarship fund, processional candles/cross, altar cloths and candles for adoration chapel
Largest: $85,000 to CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DEL DESIERTO DE ALTAR A — to support grantee's work on critical theory and aesthetics to generate new ways of understanding desert borderlands
Licking County FoundationNewark, OHCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $28,969 · through 2022Largest: $13,232 to NEWARK CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — books for the church library, flowers for the altar
Dayton Foundation DepositoryDayton, OHCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $60,448 · through 2024Largest: $34,698 to ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — general support and altar guild candles
Largest: $1,500 to ALTAR FLY FISHING — ethnic and religious
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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 →