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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 “batting”
Where the money went
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2023Largest: $166,861 to BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL INC — creating native prairie right-of-ways for bats
Largest: $56,542 to Arizona State University — zoonotic implications of host genetics, immunity, and virome in bats
Largest: $55,000 to Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation Inc — guano study and bat box temperature study
Largest: $5,551 to FIHS Baseball — 11 batting helmets 7 batting helmet face shields 2 game day bags 2 ball bags 2 - 12 x 6 green batting mat pro evoshield game day bag 4 evoshield batting helmets fisher baseball cov…
Orange County Community FoundationIrvine, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $127,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — environment & animal welfare
Largest: $102,000 to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - TENNESSEE — assist with bat and cave research and conservation in tennessee
Largest: $40,000 to BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — support for two bat conservation projects in rwanda and fiji.
Largest: $12,500 to American Friends of Bat Melech — the grant was to a public charity to support its general charitable purpose.
The Jacob and Malka Goldfarb Charitable FoundationWynnewood, PA
3 matching grants · $110,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT SHEVA — support bat sheva dance companys artistic excel
National Council for Air and StreamCary, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $383,909 · through 2024Largest: $125,834 to UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — gopher tortoise movements/population dynamics,pollinator habitat relationships in working forests,landscape-level modeling of winter bat habitat on managed forest lands in the sout…
Lois E Womer FoundationPennington, NJCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $323,797 · through 2024Largest: $128,750 to BASICALLY BATS — general charitable purposes
Largest: $5,000 to BAT CONSERVATION INTL — research/conservation
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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 →