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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.
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Largest: $140,000 to FUNDACION PARA LA INCLUSION TECNOLGICA KODEA — los creadores has strengthened its dynamics as an award and added an educational program that on 2022 became the escuela de creadores (school of creators), making an educational pa…
Largest: $12,800 to SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER — to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all.
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $275,000 · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to Chicago Video Project — in support of the production of "shame of chicago," a documentary that examines how chicago became one of the most racially segregated cities in the world.
Langley for Families -Newport News, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2025Largest: $20,000 to GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER — contributed funds to assist local 501(c)(3) to meet its mission: recognizing the need of vulnerable families in the greater williamsburg area, grove christian outreach center becam…
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2023Largest: $925,625 to KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC — transferring grant funds to a project that became a 501(c)(3) and spun off.
Touchstone Foundation SupportingLancaster, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $37,700 · through 2023Largest: $15,600 to DR LATINIA SHELL — 1 licensed clinical supervisor provided clinical supervision for 3 fellows. one fellow completed their hours and became licensed.
Largest: $250,000 to WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORIC — in support of the where texas became texas campaign
Chicago Sunday Evening ClubChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $197,000 · through 2024Largest: $106,000 to RENEW CHICAGO — renew chicago was founded as a ministry of park community church, and became an independent non-profit organization in 2018. we believe god has plans for chicago and that he invite…
Largest: $44,950 to CLARK UNIVERSITY — erasing refugees: how camps became killing fields in the first congo war
Largest: $20,000 to ANULI OBIODU AKANEGBU — the south got something to share: how atlanta, ga became the new influencer capital of america
Largest: $190,705 to WILD NEW FOREST CIC — wild new forest was established in 2016 and incorporated as an independent, not-for-profit, community interest company (cic) in dec 2019. over the last five years we have developed…
Louisville Bar FoundationLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $21,536 · through 2024Largest: $21,536 to Finer Pearls Foundation — alberta odell jones was born in louisville in 1930. in 1959, upon admission to the kentucky bar the same year she received her law degree, jones became kentucky's first practicing …
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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 →