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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 “built”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.6M to PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC — 79904 strengthening and deepening purpose built communities' approach to increasing long-term health and racial equity through neighborhood transformation
Alamance Community & Health FoundationGreensboro, NCCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $928,198 · through 2023Largest: $143,196 to Alamance County Recreation & Parks Department — leadership institute/strategic built environment
Largest: $650,000 to INTERNATIONAL LIVING FUTURE INSTITUTE — cultivating communities for increasing impacts: affordable housing, healthy materials, and equity in the built environment
Largest: $720,932 to CALIFORNIA PAN-ETHNIC HEALTH NETWORK — demystifying health care financing: to develop a series of popular education style materials that shine a light on how health care is currently financed, the built-in incentives an…
Largest: $50,000 to INDIAN COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS — to sustain the momentum built on multilateral development bank reforms under india's g-20 presidency by supporting the independent expert group co-convened by the us and india on r…
Largest: $82,750 to TRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK — $40,000 racial equity learning community and montco 30% project; $42,750 operational support for community resources and programming to advance sdoh social & community context and …
Largest: $30,000 to ST ANDREWS CHURCH - PALLOTINE MISSION — feed the poor & support house to be built - 6 houses to be built in honor of maureen stewart, gene stewart, liam & margaret wrenn, lena wrenn, rick freida & fr. peter's brother, se…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
5 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2022Largest: $350,000 to POSSIBILITY LABS — provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of racial, gender, and climate justice by accelerating community-driven solutions that are built, led…
Largest: $900,000 to LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — to support built elements of placekeeping along the armitage corridor, supplies and program costs, programming "pop up" events, and cultural performances and workshops
Largest: $10,000 to Girl Scouts of Western Washington — sky's the limit - discover aviation & aerospace is built on program progressions that tie to the characteristics and learning styles of each age-level of girl scouting. in 2022 we …
Largest: $229,754 to UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — to study what limits the range of proteins built by natural cells, and to engineer a translation system that builds a wider range of proteins than is possible in natural cells
Largest: $125,000 to URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK — advancing just climate action in the built environment
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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 →