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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 “blight”
Where the money went
Largest: $10.0M to Genesee County Land Bank Authority — to support blight elimination and neighborhood stabilization for flint residents throughout the city.
Largest: $150,000 to WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — for general operating support to advance affordable housing, remedy blight and abandonment, and inform and educate residents on the benefits of potential municipal consolidation be…
Heartland ForwardBentonville, ARCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to 1 Girl Revolution LLC — to provide funding to businesses operating in economically depressed and/or blighted underserved areas in order to combat community deterioration, address unemployment and underemp…
Southwest Iowa Housing Trust FundAtlantic, IACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $141,671 · through 2024Largest: $52,670 to CITY OF RED OAK — demolition of blighted property
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
6 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2022Largest: $419,120 to CALHOUN COUNTY LAND BANK — activating vacant and blighted parcels owned by the land bank in a low-income, primarily minority-owned neighborhood as part of a community-created neighborhood stabilization strat…
Largest: $50,000 to VEGGIELUTION — veggielution will plan, develop, program and operate a new public space for the sofa neighborhood by transforming a derelict lot. from this work, veggielution will create a templat…
Alliance for Open Society Int'LNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $125,000 · through 2023Largest: $75,000 to FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC — to enable project blight 2 bright, a project of the grantee, to remediate blight in baltimore city by implementing a mobile application to track and report hazards, educating the c…
McAuley MinistriesPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $193,624 · through 2024Largest: $91,800 to UPTOWN PARTNERS OF PITTSBURGH — community and economic development project to tackle blight and vacancy and rebuild the corridor in an ecoinnovation district.
Largest: $10,000 to BOGALUSA REBIRTH — health & wellness through blight remediation
Henry County Land Reutilization CorporationNapoleon, OHCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $933,829 to Henry County Land Reutilization Corporation — to eliminate blight from the county.
Largest: $75,000 to THE WALLS PROJECT — funding for futures fund program support, personnel, recruitment, in-person digital literacy & coding training courses, career/soft skills training, community placemaking, blight r…
Largest: $150,000 to STEEL RIVERS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS — blight mitigation through strategic code enforcement
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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 →