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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 “attention”
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Dream PartnershipCamp Hill, PACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $652,619 · through 2024Largest: $81,855 to PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG) — to provide inclusive education and offer students opportunities for global perspectives, interactive learning, and personal attention, through a welcoming and safe environment, ind…
Largest: $2.0M to CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE — for core operating support to educate, train and support medical students, with attention to strengthening pathways for underrepresented racial minorities, including through the ne…
Largest: $675,000 to BRANDEIS U HELLER SCH FOR SOC POL — 79284 supporting data, research, and users related to the child opportunity index 3.0 to draw attention to and catalyze action on equitable neighborhoods
Largest: $100,000 to THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — to convene a network of leading next generation china scholars and experts from throughout the asia-pacific and provide a forum for them to contribute analysis on relations with ch…
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $243,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — for elect research - attention dr. goli mostoufi
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
9 matching grants · $726,568 · through 2022Largest: $90,000 to SANANDO HERIDAS AC — improve access to health care for families in the highlands of chiapas, mexico, through a three-components program that will provide training to community leaders as health promote…
Largest: $234,870 to Foundation-Administered Projects-Direct Charitable Activities — to continue to meet the immediate needs of the statewide afterschool networks and to identify the best system of support to ensure that all networks receive the assistance and atte…
Largest: $9,500 to ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT — the purpose of this grant is to expand the evidence-based policy research base. the 2024 appam fall research conference, policymaking at the federal, state, and local levels, encou…
Largest: $325,000 to Environmental Working Group — to use data and communication tools to bring attention to the environmental and fiscal performance of usda conservation and crop insurance programs.
Largest: $304,626 to JET PROPULSION LABORATORY — dissecting social attention in autism using large-sample eye tracking over the internet
Largest: $1.3M to THE ANNIE GARDNER FOUNDATION — to assist in preventing and relieving suffering and distress among poor, unfortunate and vocationally handicapped persons residing in graves county, kentucky, by providing to or fo…
Largest: $200,000 to CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC — group home supporting children in fo
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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 →