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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 “audit”
Where the money went
Local Independent Online News PublishersWilmington, DECharity · may take applications
139 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2023Largest: $16,500 to THE CURRENT MEDIA INC — gni startups lab, sustainability audit, travel scholarship
Largest: $5,000 to ASSETS LANCASTER — tax and audit prep
Largest: $80,719 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — to conduct a civil rights and civil liberties audit of a six-month pilot test of the aerial investigative research program in baltimore, maryland.
Largest: $77,751 to THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — core support for computer scientists to provide technical support for ai civil rights audits and associated research
Largest: $816,667 to LOCAL INDEPENDENT ONLINE NEWS PUBLISHERS INC — to fund 200 sustainability audits for local news outlets and then provide post-audit consulting and dollars to publishers so they can best address their business challenges.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
6 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $730,000 to GESTION ETUDES COMPTABILITE ET AUDIT — jobs and family economic security
Largest: $75,000 to NKAC AUDIT & CONSEIL — to support the charitable activities of collectif dafadoy
Deloitte FoundationStamford, CTCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $633,275 · through 2022Largest: $375,780 to OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — deloitte foundation accounting scholars program, fy'22 matching gifts & national audit innovation campus challenge
Institute of Internal Auditors - Houston ChapterHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $264,702 · through 2024Largest: $159,500 to Texas A&M Foundation — scholarships and internal audit program support
Largest: $575,000 to University of Hawaii Foundation — to support hawaii's efforts to increase native hawaiian, pacific islander and filipino attainment through the talent, innovation, and equity initiative and lumina's equity policy a…
Largest: $12,000 to WHITE SULPHER SPRINGS PUB — audit, utilities, operational costs
Largest: $700,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — to support the development of a theoretically-grounded and practical framework for continuous safety monitoring of clinical machine learning devices by leveraging automated real-ti…
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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 →