Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “around”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — core support for the center on privacy and technology for expanding needs around researching and convening around the impact of surveillance on historically marginalized communitie…
Largest: $565,000 to NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL — to educate global stakeholders and raise awareness around neglected humanitarian crises around the world
Largest: $98,268 to NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — increasing understanding of lgbtq+ health equity issues: to support opinion research and polling of california residents on perceptions and attitudes around lgbtq+ health equity is…
Largest: $900,000 to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — to support the citizens labs work on researching issues around human rights and the digital space
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
47 matching grants · $16.6M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE — to perform ethnographic research of young people around the world around attitudes towards work and the changing economy and research of potential strategies and solutions to help …
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
56 matching grants · $12.0M · through 2024Largest: $325,000 to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY CHILD CARE FOUNDATION — organize family child care providers around common goals, as well as design, deliver and facilitate a leadership fellowship so that family child care providers inform the rebuildin…
Largest: $648,450 to ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — to support newswell, an asu project focused on the provision of news and information that educates and informs the public through local journalism throughout the united states, exp…
Largest: $68,590 to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — to support a conference that brings together prosecutors from around the southeast, researchers, community leaders, and directly impacted people to foster a discussion around the u…
Largest: $1.5M to Populace Inc — to study private opinion and collective illusions in society around key issues that affect culture and institutions, especially education, essential to creating a positive-sum soci…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $14.1M · through 2022Largest: $246,500 to National Geographic Society — general operating support. support for research to analyze the value of the carbon emitted by bottom trawling in eu waters and provide a decision-making tool for fishery managers a…
Largest: $40,000 to Union Locale des Producteurs de Cereales (ULPC) — agrifoodfrn: strengthening the farmer research network around ulpc to support food system transformation
Largest: $500,000 to Regents of the University of Michigan — to support a gap study and clinical services feasibility study in the flint area around health care services for children.
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →