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12 funders with a record of paying for “automatic”
Where the money went
American Automatic Control CouncilSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $669,434 · through 2024Largest: $227,598 to INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC — to promote education and cooperation in the automatic control profession.
Largest: $17,260 to KENDALL COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURE & EQUESTRIAN CENTER — two automatic electronic defibrillators and capital improvements
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII — computability and automatic complexity
Largest: $400,000 to University of Washington — in support of open-source hardware and software tools that enable automatic scientific experiments and that are affordable and broadly accessible for a wide range of scientists.
Largest: $400,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — toward the costs of building infrastructure to allow for the seamless and automatic translation of wikipedia entries into a range of languages globally and make knowledge more equi…
Largest: $12,500 to St Frances Manor Foundation — automatic door locking system grant
Roundup for SafetyKalispell, MTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $16,400 · through 2024Largest: $9,000 to BIGFORK DEVELOPMENT COMPANY — automatic ada doors
Dravet Syndrome FoundationCherry Hill, NJCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $216,166 · through 2023Largest: $216,166 to Case Western Reserve University — development of an ai-powered dravet syndrome ontology. although a significant amount of data for dravet syndrome (ds) is available from model organisms and humans, methods to integ…
Largest: $17,360 to MS DREAM CENTER — automatic doors, window blinds, and upgrades to plumbing and electric
Largest: $69,960 to UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA — to create an ai tool capable of automatically interpreting and providing feedback to enhance the design and readability of scientific plots
The Film CollaborativeLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $107,366 · through 2022Largest: $107,366 to Automat Pictures — automat pictures project
Largest: $20,000 to THE GIFT OF GIVING CORPORATION — this was a matching gift of staff. the foundation recently became aware that due to an inadvertent error on the grants processing side within a technology system, a number of small…
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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 →