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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 “baseline”
Where the money went
Norton HealthcareLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $570,000 to Board of Education of Jefferson County Kentucky — program support to ensure that trainers and sports medicine experts are available and support of baseline concussion testing.
Largest: $450,000 to HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL — core support for national research on prevalence trends of gbv in south africa that will provide baseline gbv data to government and civil society on gbv and be used by government …
Largest: $45,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — to support baseline data collection for environmental health outcomes
The Oak Hill FundCharlottesville, VA
4 matching grants · $255,000 · through 2023Largest: $75,000 to BAY ISLANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — continued support to conduct their monthly marine water quality monitoring (guanaja) and freshwater quality study, and conduct citizen science projects on solid waste around the th…
Largest: $237,500 to Pinellas Education Foundation — fhsp and pef embarked on a strategic partnership to further equitable educational outcomes, boost education quality for all pinellas county students, and have a baseline of data th…
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $7.1M · through 2024Largest: $3.0M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — maternal infant health assessment: understanding and monitoring perinatal mental health.; patients for primary care; nursing advising resources; connected care accelerator data col…
Largest: $42,000 to Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture — participatory baseline study on technical, environmental and socio-economic feasibility of bsf rearing in the ecuadorian highlands of canar and chimborazo
Largest: $450,000 to MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — the benefactor desires that grantee shall use the gift to continue the project awarded in 2022 to establish a novel treatment strategy for diabetic kidney disease. previous support…
Largest: $350,000 to MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — calatrave baseline initiative
Largest: $110,260 to NATURE UGANDA — for the project "training a cohort of herpetologists to increase data knowledge in uganda and build capacity for baseline herpetology surveys in key ecosystems of east africa."
Conservation International FoundationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $160,769 · through 2024Largest: $84,527 to SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — collecting bluewater time capsules to establish ocean baselines
Largest: $230,000 to TORO DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (TORODEV) LIMITED BY GUAR — for a baseline study on urban data governance in uganda
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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 →

