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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 “bipoc”
Where the money went
Largest: $75,000 to EQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE — support programs providing culturally specific food grown by bipoc farmers and provided to bipoc families in clackamas, multnomah, and washington counties
Largest: $65,519 to Friends of Family Farmers — to connect new bipoc farmers with land, empower bipoc farmers as advocates and amplify bipoc farmers' voices in agricultural policy making
Largest: $250,000 to HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE — national programs and bipoc leadership support
Largest: $1.5M to ECHOING GREEN INC — supporting bipoc social innovators to advance health equity: to support bipoc community leaders and social innovators nationally and in california to improve social, financial and …
Largest: $200,000 to Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation — to build upon their current commitment to economic growth for bipoc-led and bipoc-serving organizations and help amplify their capacity and reach to support more of these organizat…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
41 matching grants · $12.2M · through 2022Largest: $194,600 to BLACK HEALTH NEW MEXICO — improve maternal child health outcomes for black and indigenous families in new mexico through a bipoc-led think tank that will develop a birth justice policy agenda, advocate for …
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $919,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to BIPOC ED COALITION — to support the bipoc ed coalition's sabbaticals for bipoc leaders
Largest: $250,000 to VENTURE NOIRE INC — support for working with kc bizcare to support local small business through new programs, ecosystem research and development of a small business capital fund that targets bipoc ent…
Enterprise Community Loan FundColumbia, MDCharity · may take applications
62 matching grants · $8.2M · through 2024Largest: $354,265 to AWA HOLDINGS LLC — for capacity building for predevelopment costs for bipoc developers.
Largest: $1.2M to NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP — to support the next phase of amplify fund, which supports black, indigenous and people of color (bipoc) and low-income communities to build power and influence decisions about the …
Largest: $365,000 to RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM — core support for the creation of a new position, director of interpretation, prioritizing latinx/chicanx and other bipoc histories, through the leadership in art museums initiative
Largest: $10,000 to UC Regents Santa Cruz — scholarship: bipoc women
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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 →