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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 “amin”
Where the money went
Largest: $36,700 to University of Illinois At Chicago — scholarships for cindy carbajal (2,500), hamza amin (5,000), jack beltran hernandez (1,000), jason yu (5,000), kaliah linear (5,000), lake crowell (5,000), lizbeth fernandez (5,000…
Largest: $75,000 to QURATULAIN AMIN — educational scholarship
Largest: $55,000 to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — to support dr. jose mendoza in undertaking a collaborative research project to develop a sustainable process to produce amines for direct air capture, resulting from the 2021 scial…
Largest: $18,000 to GEORGIANA AMINE MANN — family support
Largest: $120,000 to SOCIARTS PRODUCTIONS LLC — production for documentary movie for the founder of amin arasteh foundation
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $72,000 · through 2021Largest: $36,000 to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation — general operating support. supporting the research of neal d. amin, m.d. ph.d. stanford university
Iranian American Women FoundationIrvine, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $160,800 · through 2022Largest: $80,400 to Amin Arasteh Foundation — college educational assistance
Largest: $9,350 to AMIN -AKEEL AHMAD — food distribution/winter in up
OnerefugeeSalt Lake City, UT
2 matching grants · $5,571 · through 2023Largest: $4,013 to Elvis Amin CO University of Utah — to help with education for refugees from other countries.
Modi Family FoundationMonmouth Junction, NJ
2 matching grants · $3,000 · through 2023Largest: $2,000 to SIMRAM AMIN — rutgers universityeducational assistance
Largest: $15,000 to LOLLYPOP FARM — aminal emergency team
Largest: $4,000 to RANI AMIN — scholarships for woburn memorial high school graduates attending college
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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 →