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12 funders with a record of paying for “bias”
Where the money went
Largest: $9,250 to Cooperative Restraining Order Clinc — the foundation made donations/contributions to organizations whose purpose is to benefit either children's causes or women's rights issues related to reducing gender bias.
Asian American Coalition for ChildrenNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2023Largest: $490,000 to EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — funding for holistic programs to address anti-asian hate, bias and racism ("equity")
Largest: $407,948 to SOCIETY FOR RSH IN CHILD DEVEL — 81289 supporting the society for research in child development in continuing to address bias and racism in scholarly publishing and scientific peer review
Largest: $312,383 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — to study fairness and bias concerns about artificial intelligence using causal analysis
Largest: $100,000 to REEL MEDICINE MEDIA — for the production of the documentary "the chaplain of oakland," to explore the harms caused by implicit bias in healthcare when the power of the stethoscope combines with unconsci…
Largest: $65,000 to T 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…
Largest: $2.9M to UCSF — anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd
Largest: $250,000 to ALTCAP — support to build capacity for improvement of the current loan platform's effectiveness and data collection in serving low-income entrepreneurs and small businesses. this will incre…
The Maltz Museum of Jewish HeritageBeachwood, OHCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $52,500 · through 2024Largest: $6,000 to Milkovich Middle School — to support anti-bias education
Largest: $614,342 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — to develop a structured battery of statistical methods for measuring racial bias at various stages of the traffic enforcement process.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
3 matching grants · $12.1M · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — bridge research and culturally linguistically relevant practices among teachers, minority language communities, and language scholars, to address issues of linguistic diversity, li…
Largest: $30,000 to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TN INC — to provide a positive, enriching learning experience free of bias that promotes greater economic opportunity.
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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 →