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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 “beijing”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to BEIJING INSTITUTE OF FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY — to develop the environmental social and governance information disclosure indicator framework for chinese listed companies and to pilot this framework in beijing and huzhou
Largest: $500,000 to BEIJING CHAOYANG DISTRICT YONGXU GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE — for general support
Largest: $9.0M to BEIJING HUAYI HEALTH AND DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE — discovery and translational sciences
Largest: $36,595 to HANNAH PEDONE — language study at the inter-university program for chinese language studies at tsinghua university in beijing, china
Largest: $13,802 to LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF CHINA (BEIJING) — scholarship program
Arts and Humanities Council of MontgomerSilver Spring, MDCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $29,948 · through 2024Largest: $9,800 to DC BEAUTY OF BEIJING OPERA LTD — project grant
Largest: $6,530 to Beijing Asso of New York — culture activity
Largest: $50,000 to CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — the climate leadership council is an international research and advocacy organization whose mission is to convene global opinion leaders around new climate solutions based on carbo…
Largest: $2,400 to CAPITAL UNIVERSITY FOR ECONOMICS & TRADE — gcf student scholarship project in beijing, china
Largest: $20,000 to FEI YUAN — plan for our own late-life care: an ethnographic study of retirees' financial and estate-planning in beijing, china
Largest: $60,000 to STARFISH PROJECT INC — for rehabilitation, education, and career training for female victims of sex trafficking in beijing, china
Princeton in BeijingPrinceton, NJCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $175,125 · through 2023Largest: $175,125 to PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — transfer of princeton in beijing's share of financial aid to sap for dean's fund awards for the princeton in beijing summer 2024 program.
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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 →