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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 “analysis”
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Largest: $9.0M to PHILANTHROPY ASIA ALLIANCE LTD — global health and development public awareness and analysis; public awareness and analysis; research and learning opportunities
United States Energy FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
492 matching grants · $179.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.6M to ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — to support education and outreach to build a clean energy future. to promote education and analysis to advance energy optimization. to promote education and analysis on the benefit…
Largest: $81,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — multiparameter harmonic analysis, helgason-fourier analysis on hyperbolic and symmetric spaces and sharp geometric and functional inequalities
Largest: $200,000 to COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — to support a public workforce allocation analysis of the chicago police department ("cdp") that will lead to the development of an interactive and configurable model that will enab…
Largest: $300,000 to ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — core support for the american indian policy institute for policy analysis and tribally driven research to expand broadband access in indian country and to launch the center for tri…
Largest: $3.5M to NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — to support the grantee's new practice lab, which conducts research and analysis on family economic security and wellbeing
Largest: $50,000 to PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — advancing health equity through state policy analysis: to support research and analysis that informs and improves statewide and regional conversations to improve health policy in c…
Largest: $100,000 to UNIDOSUS — support the community through research, policy analysis, and advocacy efforts
Largest: $112,500 to Regents of the University of Colorado — to support a rigorous analysis of system-wide academic impacts of long-term school reform in denver using student-level data, which build upon the school-level analysis previously …
Largest: $1.0M to JOHNS HOPKINS U — 80256 gun policy research: conducting equity-centered policy analysis, research, and evaluation to prevent gun violence
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
41 matching grants · $10.4M · through 2022Largest: $200,000 to THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — influence popular narratives and inform policy debates through research and analysis and stakeholder engagement that prioritizes solutions and analysis that seek to close the racia…
Largest: $20,448 to ACADEMY HEALTH — to support a landscape analysis exploring the epidemiology of diagnostic delay. this analysis will inform a call for proposals to address priority research gaps.
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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 →