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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 “basis”
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Largest: $40,686 to RTCA-NY — to provide financial support to individuals in need. this financial assistance is to cover medical, funeral and basic living expenses on a temporary basis for individuals with prol…
Largest: $2.7M to LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — donor advised fundnon cash grantdate: 3/18/2022cost basis: 1,372,071fmv: 2,715,962
Largest: $72,529 to PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — funding for the nicole jane macbeth hill memorial heidelberg scholarship for study abroad program consisting of 315 shares of analog devices stock with a tax basis of $734, and a f…
Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian HomesSkokie, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $5.2M · through 2024Largest: $863,637 to PRESBYTERIAN LIVING — other grants are provided to presbyterian living for special projects and programs on as needed basis.
Largest: $218,200 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — the neural and computational basis of motor skills
The McKnight Endowment Fund for NeuroscienceMinneapolis, MN
6 matching grants · $500,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill — elucidating the neural basis of pain unpleasantness: circuits and new therapeutics to end the dual epidemic of chronic pain and opioid addiction. principal investigator: gregory sc…
Largest: $75,000 to COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — program/operating support
Largest: $339,547 to COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — capital/capacity/general support
Umass Memorial Health Care Inc AffiliatesWorcester, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2023Largest: $1.0M to Edward M Kennedy Community Health Ctr Inc — 2. support for health center's mission. the standard set forth is a reasonable expectation that the grants will contribute meaningfully to each of the health center's ability to ma…
Largest: $281,363 to RAND CORPORATION — to continue to support the national collaborative on gun violence research, a national, coordinated effort aimed at building the empirical basis for policy decisions to address gun…
Largest: $5,000 to Katherine Faulkner — scholarship awarded on merit basis to children of star-telegram employees
Help Yourself Win FoundationSchenectady, NYCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $135,000 · through 2025Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — to assist university of michigan with their mission of extending public service by successfully implementing help yourself academies in local elementary schools. in addition, eleme…
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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 →