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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 “budgetary”
Where the money went
Largest: $52,500 to Harlem Academy — annual budgetary needs.
Largest: $281,124 to CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS — general operating support
Largest: $62,509 to Turtle Key Arts Trust — annual budgetary requirements
Largest: $1.3M to FONDATION MAURICE ET NOEMIE DE ROTHSCHILD — general budgetary
Largest: $500,000 to THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS — to support a 50-state strategy to improve community supervision success amid the public health and budgetary crises caused by covid-19.
Ralph E Madden Trust B Uw 198-3013020Knoxville, TNCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $254,917 · through 2025Largest: $109,673 to TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME — to provide financial support for the home's ongoing budgetary needs.
Emma Jones Tuw for Various 287-3010003Knoxville, TNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $61,273 · through 2025Largest: $24,895 to UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — to fund the budgetary needs of the university focused in the area of scholarships
Le Jones Tuw for Various 287-3010004Knoxville, TNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $58,727 · through 2025Largest: $23,947 to UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — to provide financial support for the budgetary needs of the university, focused in the area of providing scholarships.
Largest: $765,254 to BROOKINGS INST — 79841 generating community-driven definitions of well-being for black youths to inform policymaking and the public environment for budgetary decision-making
Largest: $5,500 to THE CATHOLIC APPEAL — religous support to meet general budgetary needs.
Largest: $250,000 to INVICTUS AFRICA INITIATIVE LTDGTE — for the womanity index: an analysis of government investment and budgetary allocations to gender based violence prevention and response in nigeria, ghana and senegal
Education Foundation of WauwatosaWauwatosa, WICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $209,820 · through 2025Largest: $72,253 to SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WAUWATOSA — to help fund programs which offer students an opportunity to enhance their education that might otherwise not have been possible due to school budgetary constraints.
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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 →