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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 “cage”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.1M to COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INTERNATIONAL — broiler chicken welfare and ending cages and crates
Largest: $60,000 to NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER BIRDSEY CAPE WILDLIFE CENTER — for new waterfowl caging, vaccines for the patients, modular cage banks for patients' recovery and rehab, medical oxygen and specialty food for the wildlife patients
Largest: $2,000 to WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE — extension - raptor flight cage - $1,523.50, small mammal cages - $1,243.03, wildlife food - $6,000.00, veterinarian costs - $3,233.47
Two Seven OhNew Hudson, MI
4 matching grants · $59,961 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to MONTCALM COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — spay/neuter program, cat cages
Edwin J Wadas FoundationNew York Mills, NY
4 matching grants · $37,669 · through 2025Largest: $17,679 to ORISKANY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — batting cages and scorers table
Largest: $9,000 to SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER — to pay for food, medicine, supplies & cage furnishings for rehabbing animals.
Largest: $150,000 to Vanderbilt University — for support of international politics coverage at the monkey cage
Effective Ventures Foundation USASan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $260,000 · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to GLOBAL FOOD PARTNERS — improving the welfare of caged animals
Largest: $50,000 to NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND — application to campaign against sea cage salmon fishing
Largest: $30,000 to OUTTA THE CAGE — general operating
Largest: $19,800 to WOODBINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — little league baseball batting cage update
Largest: $2,500 to CAGE TO COUCH INC — rescue, shelter and veterinary expenses of research beagles 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 →