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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 “brown”
Where the money went
Full of Grace FoundationEl Dorado Hills, CACharity · may take applications
88 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2023Largest: $35,000 to BROWN MILL CLOTHING LLC — supporting the mission of black and brown owned businesses and nonprofits
Brown County Community FoundationNashville, INCharity · may take applications
68 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2025Largest: $672,960 to BROWN COUNTY SCHOOLS — to further the exempt purpose of the organization
Largest: $105,000 to CRYSTAL E BROWN - WASHINGTON U OF — 79440 using public health critical race praxis to evaluate a patient-centered program to address perceived healthcare discrimination -- crystal e. brown, md
Largest: $244,287 to University of Maine — scholarships - a abelon, a abruzese, d adams, m addy, a ade, h agbuya, e alexander, n allen, m alley, t ames, a astbury, d atkinson, g baillargeon, g baldwin, a bartlett, k bartlet…
Largest: $48,415 to Brown University — scholarships for luis gomez ($6,250), nayeli jimenez alvarado ($20,000), johnathan mendoza ($2,500), khushi patel ($12,500), daniela ponce cartagena ($6,295), and cyntia roig ($870…
Largest: $520,558 to BROWN UNIVERSITY — astrophysical investigations of dynamical chern-simons theory
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $11.9M · through 2023Largest: $406,500 to State University Of Iowa Foundation — center for advancement- dr. donald d. brown & judy k. barkalow faculty support fund in cardiology. to support a temporal survey of antibiotic resistant bacteria in cafo-dense north…
Greater Green Bay CommunityGreen Bay, WICharity · may take applications
33 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $6,987 to BROWN COUNTY TREASURER — salary plus fringe support for invasive species project though brown county uw
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $13.7M · through 2024Largest: $3.7M to BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE — scholarships & financial aid
Largest: $2.0M to Brown University — brown undergraduate internship and research fund
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Brown University — medical research
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $5,000 to BROWN UNIVERSITY — to support the brown fund
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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 →