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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 “alternations”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to ARAB ALTERNATIVES FORUM FOR SOCIAL STUDIES — to support the production of evidence based research, networking and policy formulation on alternative economies in the mena region
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
65 matching grants · $848,984 · through 2024Largest: $53,240 to CT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (GARNER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION CORRIGAN COR — the cross mini-grant is used to start a smart recovery meeting for teens or young adults who use substances, an alternative peer group sober social events and activities for the sa…
Largest: $1.6M to OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — to fund the state medicaid alternative reimbursement and purchasing test for high cost drugs (smart-d) and support the development of value-based alternative drug purchasing models…
Largest: $266,000 to TIDES FOUNDATION — a la defensa - supporting health-promoting alternatives to incarceration: to support health-promoting alternatives to incarceration through public education, community empowerment …
Largest: $447,000 to THINK OF US — support fwsg finance analysis across systems, alternative permanency option and equity strategy
Largest: $500,000 to INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ASSOCIATES — to map and research current global and african derisking practices and propose alternative approaches to development
Largest: $200,000 to REDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC — pilot fellowship program for farm animal welfare, meat reduction & alternative proteins
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $16.2M · through 2023Largest: $101,250 to Good Food Institute — general operating support. support for key research and analyses to advance sustainable, humane alternatives to commodity meat.
Largest: $50,000 to GRID ALTERNATIVES INLAND EMPIRE — assist in providing solar energy installation and cost savings to 10 low income homeowners in the city of san bernardino. the city of san bernardino experiences an air quality inde…
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $270,000 to GRID ALTERNATIVES — sustainable environment
Largest: $300,000 to GRID ALTERNATIVES — program/operating support
Largest: $700,247 to MDRC — 77010 expanding the creating moves to opportunity housing-mobility program to test alternative models in chicago/cook county, milwaukee, and st. louis
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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 →