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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 “berkeley”
Where the money went
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
62 matching grants · $39.5M · through 2024Largest: $5.2M to UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — advised - for berkeley art museum & pacific film archive (bampfa) fy21-22 trustee contribution. advised - for berkeley art museum & pacific film archive (bampfa) spring 2022 gala. …
Largest: $599,340 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — simons bridge for postdoctoral fellowships at sitoc
Largest: $100,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to train a diverse cohort of early career energy economists through the berkeley initiative on equity in energy and environmental economics
East Bay Community FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $5.5M · through 2024Largest: $536,197 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — asian american research center, berkeley art museum and pacific film archive, berkeley school of optometry, cal band alumni fund, cal men's basketball excellence fund, cheri pies a…
Largest: $400,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — for the berkeley wildlife program
Largest: $643,963 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — to provide research and technical assistance in revising california's penal code.
Koret FoundationSan Francisco, CA
43 matching grants · $9.1M · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — school and family engagement programs at the uc berkeley art museum and pacific film archive
Largest: $897,753 to PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — 81590 contributing to a mindset consortium that addresses structural racism and advances health equity -- berkeley media studies group
Largest: $950,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — research of in-line water chlorination in high disease burden settings
Largest: $250,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — for berkeley excel planning fund
Largest: $175,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — fellowships for science and engineering
Largest: $46,315 to University of California-Berkeley — scholarships for d. contreras ($7,500), a. cortez ($8,788), k. dowell ($7,825), c. gaspar ($1,500), j. gordiano ($12,933), f. gordon ($5,000), v. guzman-gil ($269), and a. hernande…
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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 →