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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 “bahamas”
Where the money went
Largest: $265,000 to Rewild — to support bahamas protected areas fund's work for alternative funding sources for bahamas mpas
Largest: $100,000 to Bahamas Marine Mammal research — grant for research into noise and ship collision in the northwest providence passage near the south abaco sperm whale nursery. a population survey of mammals in the sea of abaco
Largest: $200,000 to Friends of the Environment Inc — bahamas cave research foundation
Largest: $170,186 to OCEANAID360 — marine debris clean up events in florida and the bahamas
Largest: $2.1M to BAHAMAS NATIONAL TRUST THE — a grant to further the donee's exempt purpose.
Largest: $5,000 to LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC — to provide educational scholarships to underprivileged children in the bahamas
Largest: $24,900 to BAHAMAS MARINE MAMMAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION — stranding responses to support conservation of marine mammals in the bahamas
Largest: $10,000 to THE ISLAND SCHOOL-CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION — provide charitable funding support for place-based education, scientific research, and the development of sustainable technologies that promote a more liveable future on the island…
Conservation International FoundationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $233,434 · through 2024Largest: $117,431 to BAHAMAS NATIONAL TRUST FUND INC — enhancing management effectiveness, enforcement, and compliance within the bahamas national protected area network through the use of technology, sustainable financing mechanisms, …
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $227,840 · through 2022Largest: $141,450 to Bonefish & Tarpon Trust — annual fund, unrestricted contribution to support operations and projects during 2023, support for the new btt bahamas program director role, general fund
Largest: $50,000 to FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT — bahamian non-profit organization with a mission to preserve the environment of abaco, the bahamas through education, conservation, and research facilitation.
Largest: $50,000 to Perry Institute for Marine Science — scaling up effective coral restoration in the bahamas - bahamas coral innovation hub
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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 →