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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 “body”
Where the money went
Largest: $4.2M to TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE — champion health equity; maintain healthy bodies; nurture healthy minds; strengthen community health; general donation to support organization or program; matching contribution to s…
Washington Association ofLacey, WACharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $318,527 to CITY OF AUBURN — body worn camera grants
Largest: $200,000 to CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — core support for the women's health and rights program to ensure that all women, have the rights, resources and agency to make decisions about their bodies by influencing the publi…
Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — sporadic inclusion body myositis research, dr. mazen dimachkie
Largest: $139,654 to POLICE FOUNDATION — to conduct research on police body-worn cameras.
Largest: $150,000 to INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — project support: sovereign bodies institute
Largest: $98,359 to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — hierarchy structures of effective equations from many-body dynamics and back
Largest: $25,000 to COLUMBIA COLLEGE — contribution to support the develoment of the university's faculty and student body and support contribution to support the develoment of the university's faculty and student body …
Largest: $446,852 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to support investigation of outstanding problems in quantum materials, including the strong correlation problem and quantum dynamics of many-body hamiltonians by creation of voltag…
Quad Cities Golf Classic CharitableEast Moline, ILCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $448,770 · through 2024Largest: $148,450 to YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY (SCOTT COUNTY) — the ymca is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to put christian principles into practice throguh programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Latino Economic Development CorporationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $138,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to R&E BODY&PAINT INC — small business support grant
The Aspen InstituteWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $325,000 · through 2022Largest: $75,000 to UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON — award for american talent initiative's promising practice accelerator for increasing diversity in the student body
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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 →

