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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 “barriers”
Where the money went
Foundation for California CommunitySacramento, CACharity · may take applications
117 matching grants · $25.9M · through 2024Largest: $676,516 to OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION — breaking barriers
Largest: $330,205 to MIRROR GROUP LLC — 81633 continuing the deep evaluation, learning, and strategy partnership launched by the removing barriers to health equity research program
Clean Slate InitiativeOrlando, FLCharity · may take applications
60 matching grants · $9.6M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to CODE FOR AMERICA — the clean slate initiative provides grants to organizations in support of its work toward advancing automated record clearance legislation that removes barriers to employment, hous…
Largest: $2.5M to HUNTSVILLE MADISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — close the stem gap for diverse students by removing barriers that prevent access to stem. this includes creating innovative, hands-on stem programming, assisting in professional an…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee &Milwaukee, WICharity · may take applications
55 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2024Largest: $419,385 to WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — driver's license recovery,healthy youth initiative,youth enhanced support ,community reintegration services,criminal justice recovery services,reducing barriers to employment
Largest: $509,689 to RAND CORPORATION — to support a study of veterans' access and use of contraception to better understand needs, barriers, and policy solutions.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
43 matching grants · $14.2M · through 2022Largest: $350,000 to JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — establish a community organizing, research, and advocacy agenda in alabama and mississippi to support community benefits agreements with manufacturers to build pipeline to well-pai…
Largest: $172,285 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — support for community-led research that identifies barriers and opportunities, and develops interventions to support, systemically marginalized entrepreneurs. 202204-12301
Largest: $5,000 to NORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC — eliminating health and housing barriers for homeless people: to support efforts to eliminate financial barriers, secure housing and expand opportunities for employment and access t…
Largest: $5.0M to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to launch the center for shared prosperity at carnegie mellon university: (the "center"), a university-community partnership to address barriers to equality in pittsburgh
Largest: $310,256 to WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS — to support policy engagement with open and low-cost hardware to accelerate innovation in and lower barriers to scientific research
Finger Lakes Performing Provider SystemRochester, NYCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $7.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to MONROE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — address barriers to discharge complex care patients
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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 →