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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 “bard”
Where the money went
Largest: $190,000 to BARD COLLEGE — to support a fellow as a visiting faculty member conducting research and teaching on the israel-palestine conflict at bard college
Largest: $10.0M to BARD COLLEGE — to support bard college's center for civic engagement as the new administrative hub for the open society university network's operations
Largest: $250,000 to BARD COLLEGE — core support for the bard prison initiative to meet the needs of its growing community of incarcerated men and women through opportunities to earn a college degree while serving se…
Largest: $2.1M to BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON'S ROCK — program support
Largest: $645,000 to BARD COLLEGE-CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES — purpose: restricted grant to the center for curatorial studies to provide funding for the general operations of the hessel museum of art, support for two positions on the center fo…
Largest: $3.7M to BARD COLLEGE — to support an expansion of college-in-prison programs for men and women, planning for a master's degree program, and an endowed chair dedicated to the bard prison initiative
Largest: $125,000 to BARD COLLEGE — bpi public health fellowship
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $253,000 · through 2023Largest: $68,500 to Bard College — support for the bard prison initiative. support of the bard prison initiative, general operating support for longy school of music, general operating support for bard graduate cent…
Largest: $500,000 to BARD COLLEGE — biomedical sciences at bard bronx
Largest: $64,000 to BARD PRISON INITIATIVE — general support, unrestricted
Largest: $75,000 to BARD COLLEGE — project support: la voz & the bilingual media fellowship program
Largest: $200,000 to BARD COLLEGE — to support the bard college endowment campaign for the bard prison initiative
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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 →