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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 “approaches”
Where the money went
Largest: $994,656 to AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC — 81499 establishing the health equity research network to develop equitable community-driven approaches to knowledge creation
Largest: $200,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — core support for research and communications work to shape stronger and more explicit gender justice approaches in the criminal legal system, reduce women's incarceration rates, an…
Largest: $200,000 to COMMUNICATION ACROSS BARRIERS INC — this grant will allow the louisiana department of children and family services (dcfs) to take a current reality snap shot of what is working well throughout the state of louisiana,…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
61 matching grants · $29.9M · through 2022Largest: $260,000 to KAWERAK INC — expand community power building strategies to advance a racial equity approach centered in alaska native leadership in climate research and science in the bering strait region by i…
Largest: $2.9M to UCSF — anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd
Largest: $5.0M to MDRC — to support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its rese…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
46 matching grants · $14.5M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc dba Chicago Reader — to support the research and testing of membership models and other approaches to revenue generation for the chicago reader
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
43 matching grants · $20.3M · through 2024Largest: $130,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — for the center for effective global action to support emerging researchers in the fields of the two-generation approach and youth livelihoods in colombia, ecuador, ethiopia, kenya,…
Largest: $2.3M to CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA FUNDACIO PRIVADA — in support of creating standardized approaches for aquatic symbiosis cell atlases and a cell atlas database for the scientific community.
Largest: $150,000 to Ocean Conservancy Inc — to research a suite of approaches to manage fisheries and increase fishing community resilience during a climate-driven crisis with a special focus on selecting which approach is b…
Largest: $111,000 to Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles — integrating value chain, farming research network and agroecological intensification approaches on bambara nut based farming system for food systems transformation
Largest: $463,512 to CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES — israeli ibd research nucleus (iirn) consortium biomarker-based multidisciplinary team approach to improve early crohn's disease outcomes
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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 →