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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 “canal”
Where the money went
Bonneville Environmental FoundationPortland, ORCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — solar-over-canal feasibility study & partial reimbursement for casa blanca canal phase 2 solar-over-canal design with george cairo engineering
Largest: $21,084 to Kalamazoo College — scholarships for anna canales (5,250), montserrat pichardo marquez (3,334), pedro boza (1,700), sheyla pichal (5,300), and yamilee hernandez (5,500)
Largest: $11,000 to ERIE CANAL MUSEUM — erie eats: the erie canal foodways project.
Leonard & Beryl Buck FoundationSaint Louis, MOCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $5.4M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to CANAL ALLIANCE — support the acquisition and preservation of affordable housing units in the canal community of san rafael
Ohio & Erie Canal AssociationAkron, OHCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $247,707 · through 2023Largest: $59,987 to Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition — canal development
Largest: $10,000 to DELPHOS CANAL MUSEUM — canal museum funding and repairs
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $7.5M · through 2024Largest: $5.0M to CANAL ALLIANCE — community & human services
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $225,000 to CANAL ALLIANCE — program - for general operating support to provide services and advance policy changes to break the generational cycle of poverty for latino immigrants and their families in marin …
Largest: $62,650 to CO CANAL TRUST — preservation of c&o canal
Rsf Social FinanceSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $600,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to CANAL ALLIANCE — for covid response in the canal community, particularly focused on testing and vaccinations access and delivery and education
Tipping Point CommunitySan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $440,000 to CANAL ALLIANCE — employment issue area
The Community Foundation for Greater NewNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $153,000 · through 2024Largest: $55,000 to CANAL DOCK BOATHOUSE INC — boating and environmental programming, general operating support, emerging leaders of color: nonprofit management
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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 →