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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 “borneo”
Where the money went
Largest: $180,000 to BORNEO NATURE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — support for restoration and sustainable management of wild ape habitat to protect orangutans and gibbons.
David P Tenberg Charitable FoundationGreen Cove Springs, FL
5 matching grants · $110,000 · through 2025Largest: $35,000 to BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL USA — support for animal welfare
Enlyst FundPacific Palisades, CA
3 matching grants · $80,000 · through 2025Largest: $30,000 to Wildlife Conservation Society — borneo orangutan program
Largest: $15,000 to The Borneo Project — human services/international
Largest: $4,225 to Borneo Research Council — general operating support
Largest: $1,900 to Borneo Sun Bear Conseravation — help survival ofthe sun bears
Jewish Federation of ClevelandCleveland, OHCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $245,000 · through 2021Largest: $245,000 to ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — forest land purchase in borneo
Asia WildCharleston, SCCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $60,000 · through 2023Largest: $60,000 to BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL USA — sponsor the care for 16 rescued bears located at the sun bear sanctuary for one year
Largest: $1,500 to EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC — the borneo project
Largest: $30,000 to Borneo Research Council — pemulai ke nanga jela/return to nanga jela
Largest: $10,000 to SEACOLOGY — protecting the mangroves in medan mas, borneo that provide a critical home to proboscis monkeys
Suilan Memorial FundMount Pleasant, SC
1 matching grant · $2,400 · through 2024Largest: $2,400 to Gen Con of Seventh-day Adventists — sda academy teacher assistance in singkawang west borneo to aid local ministry by education for a majority buddhist chinese student community
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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 →

