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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 “anthropology”
Where the money went
Largest: $12,500 to HELENA PEDROTTI — grant for work in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economic
Largest: $20,000 to FLORDELIZ T BUGARIN — bugarin, flordeliz (howard u.) "anthropology, ai, and the african world developing a program on anthropology, african and african diaspora studies, and intelligent technologies at …
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
13 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $20,750 to CAREY BAPTIST COLLEGE — theological anthropology, fundamental need, and human flourishing: a women scholars project
Largest: $4,603 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — fund research in field of anthropology
Largest: $65,000 to MICHAEL CEPEK — anthropology & cultural studies
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
4 matching grants · $475,523 · through 2024Largest: $470,323 to GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — to provide scholarships for catholic sisters to obtain licentiates in safeguarding from the institute of anthropology in rome
Largest: $150,000 to Indiana University Center for Religion and the Human — being human: public scholarship as theological anthropology
The Robert Lemelson FoundationPacific Palisades, CA
4 matching grants · $595,732 · through 2024Largest: $396,880 to UCLA FOUNDATION — ucla department of anthropology honors programmmac, amazigh, bec, long covid clinic
Bundy Family FoundationPortola Valley, CA
3 matching grants · $53,000 · through 2024Largest: $19,000 to LSB Leakey Foundation — education, research, anthropology, sociology
Largest: $1.1M to FOUNDATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND ENVIRO — general & unrestricted
Largest: $8,000 to Boston University Department of Anthropology — to promote chinese language and history through bus anthropological studies of chinese culture
Largest: $30,000 to AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — support for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 annual meetings and paper prizes to encourage research on anthropology and entrepreneurship. 202208-13011
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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 →