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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 “born”
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United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
95 matching grants · $60.3M · through 2024Largest: $7.9M to JUSTICE INNOVATION INC — atlas is comprised of three programs: atlas functional family therapy, atlas innovation fund, and atlas hope (healing, opportunity, progress, empowerment). additionally, uwnyc prov…
Largest: $375,000 to UCSF — understanding how blood-borne factors improve the function of the aging brain; sex-specific differences in cognitive and brain aging
Largest: $945,000 to THE TANK LTD — to support okwui okpokwasili and peter born of sweat variant with continued archival work and planning for a multi-year operations and production structure
Largest: $55,000 to EMORY UNIVERSITY — invasion ecology and genomics of emerging tick borne arboviruses
Largest: $10,000 to CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN — for education of youth and children.
Largest: $47,062 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES — support for the williams institutes research on lgbtq immigration to better understand socioeconomic and health-related lived experiences compared to non lgbtq immigrants and us-bo…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
5 matching grants · $775,000 · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO FIRST BORN PROGRAM — enable the organization to achieve its mission of supporting the health and wellness of babies and their families in mckinley and san juan county by providing linguistically and cu…
Largest: $25,000 to FIRST BORN STATE PROGRAM OFFICE (CO SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION) — to support innovations that build capacity in home visiting practices
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
4 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to EMORY UNIVERSITY — to perform mechanistic studies of wind-borne microbes in the laboratory.
Largest: $200,000 to CENTRAL NEW YORK LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE ALLIANCE — renewal of geographic expansion of the cny lyme and tick-borne disease alliance
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to Born This Way Foundation — youth development
Largest: $50,015 to HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — grant in support of the new american perspectives program at the 2024 hawai'i international film festival. the program centers the work of immigrant and foreign-born filmmakers. th…
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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 →