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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 “antiracist”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.3M to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — 81556 developing a vision for antiracist health policy and other resources for organizations working to advance an antiracist health equity movement
Largest: $300,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — core support for the center for antiracist research's work to educate, empower, and bring about an antiracist society, including their work on the emancipator, the first abolitioni…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
6 matching grants · $890,000 · through 2022Largest: $300,000 to ARCADIA UNIVERSITY — provide core support for the center for antiracist scholarship, advocacy and action of arcadia university to provide an academic center that brings together individuals, and commun…
Largest: $100,000 to Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program — to support theumoja kijana shuja cohort which empowers trans, queer, nonbinary and intersex+ youth in oregon to investigate white dominant culture and apply antiracist techniques i…
Largest: $750,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — to support the center for antiracist research in establishing a fund for the publication of the emancipator and the center affiliates program
Largest: $500,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY INC — to support the center for antiracist research at boston university to establish and launch a racial narrative tracker
Largest: $50,000 to University of California Hastings College of Law — an antiracist research agenda to advance restorative practices in prek-12 schools.
Accesslex InstituteWest Chester, PACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $250,000 · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE FOR LAW S — program support/research
S H Cowell FoundationSan Francisco, CA
3 matching grants · $190,000 · through 2024Largest: $90,000 to WEST CONTRA COSTA PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — to advance antiracist learning, policies and practices.
Largest: $153,000 to (769) TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — special initiatives: to support the narrative work of the center for antiracist research
Rochester Area Community FoundationRochester, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $185,250 · through 2023Largest: $81,500 to COORDINATED CARE SERVICES INC — antiracist curriculum project
Largest: $300,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — project support for the center for antiracist research: covid racial tracking project. research center covid racial tracking project
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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 →

