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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 “belong”
Where the money went
Largest: $404,889 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — othering and belonging institute - developing narrative strategy for health: to build narrative strategy that can bring about and support an equitable and inclusive society through…
Largest: $5,000 to PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — for the building belonging fund to enable the field of fellowship and program practitioners to build a shared practice of creating belonging with a goal of societal transformation
Welcoming AmericaAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $521,100 · through 2024Largest: $38,000 to ALLIANCE FOR JUST SOCIETY — foster belonging
Largest: $157,500 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — 81592 advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across all research, education, and service activities -- university of southern california
American Immigration CouncilWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $920,000 · through 2022Largest: $75,000 to SUSTAINABLE BEREA INC — sub-grant for belonging innovation lab fellowship under walmart grant
Largest: $200,000 to IAC BERLIN GGMBH — to support for the othering and belonging conference in berlin, which aims to help build global work in belonging and democracy, and also focus on strengthening work between actors…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $3.7M · through 2023Largest: $1.6M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — to support the uc berkeley labor center. to support the othering and belonging institute. to support the latinx research center. to support the black studies collaboratory. to supp…
Largest: $65,000 to TAHIR HEMPHILL — to produce a variety of data based tools to analyze hip hop and study the racial bias implications of machine learning/ ai models and the language used to train these models, which…
The Community Foundation of MiddleNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $181,686 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to TENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE — to combat challenges facing formerly-incarcerated tennesseans, thei fosters belonging and self-determination through peer coaching and a reentry alumni network. thei also provides …
Largest: $40,000 to NICHOLAS GARCIA JOHNSON — johnson, nicholas garcia (emory u.) "emergent citizenships: mapuche (indigenous) and chilean (non-indigenous) politics and belonging in peri-urban santiago, (chile)."
Omidyar Network FundRedwood City, CA
11 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2024Largest: $700,000 to The Regents of the University of California Berkeley — to support grantee's othering and belonging institute
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $277,500 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to POLICYLINK — to support ceos advancing racial equity and belonging initiative (careb)
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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 →