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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 “archived”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE — to support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development…
Largest: $160,000 to ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER — to provide travel and living stipends for international scholars to conduct research in the publicly accessible ford foundation archives
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $102,166 to ROSEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for the organized and updated archival records, served as an archival collection consultant, and supported the first phase of the roseau county museum's mobile shelvin…
Largest: $75,000 to SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE — to support the south asian american digital archive's oral history programs, archival collecting fellowships, and educational workshops
Largest: $560,000 to National Security Archive Fund Inc — for archival programs on u.s.-russia relations, nuclear security, and cooperative threat reduction
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $19.4M · through 2024Largest: $5.2M to UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — advised - for berkeley art museum & pacific film archive (bampfa) fy21-22 trustee contribution. advised - for berkeley art museum & pacific film archive (bampfa) spring 2022 gala. …
Largest: $28,333 to S RUSTOM — to create hader halal (with regard to presence) a multi-format project that includes a digital archive, series of public programs, publications, and exhibitions, that critically in…
Largest: $250,000 to INTERNET ARCHIVE — to support researchers, journalists, academics, activists and others to access archived eurasia tv programming content
Largest: $224,779 to ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER — to promote public understanding of knight foundation history through the transfer of its archives to an independent center that specializes in the preservation of philanthropic rec…
Largest: $310,000 to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — black visual arts archives
Largest: $346,000 to University of Washington — tracing authoritarianism: linking southeast asia with southeast asian america through archives, language, and pedagogy
Largest: $15,000 to GEORGINA RAPPAPORT — to aid accession of research materials of dr. lewis binford for archival deposit with the national anthropological archives, suitland, maryland - historical archives program access…
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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 →