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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 “cannabis”
Where the money went
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
61 matching grants · $37.7M · through 2024Largest: $4.1M to LAND OF LINCOLN LEGAL AID — to provide legal information, advice and representation to low-income people in 65 southern/central counties including veterans, people impacted by the criminalization of cannabis …
Women'S Business Development CenterChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to PUBLIC SQUARE LLC — cannabis business assistance grants
Largest: $400,000 to Johns Hopkins University 2024 — to benefit the department of pyschiatry and behaviorial sciences in support of cannabis and cannabinoid research
Willamette Valley Law ProjectWoodburn, ORCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $637,139 · through 2024Largest: $224,368 to OREGON LAW CENTER — cannabis worker resilience project coalition
Drug Policy AllianceNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $150,000 · through 2022Largest: $20,000 to SOCIAL GOOD FUND — to continue convening its affiliate network, to get a minimum of 1000 responses to the cannabis justice survey, and to create the cannabis justice platform.
Largest: $120,000 to SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — community business watch - advancing health equity via cannabis equity: to strengthen an organization's capacity and sustainability to expand their outreach and advance cannabis ju…
Crossroads FundChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $132,000 · through 2024Largest: $74,000 to Cannabis Equity IL Coalition — general operations
Largest: $663,871 to ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — to conduct a randomized control trial to examine the impact of medical cannabis on opioid analgesic use.
Drug Policy ActionNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $318,000 · through 2022Largest: $178,000 to MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT — to support the ballot measure that would legalize adult use cannabis in oklahoma
Largest: $5,000 to CANNABIS FOR CONSERVATION — plant id & wetland delineation certification
Largest: $10,000 to CALIFORNIA CANNABIS RESEARCH MEDICAL GROUP — for charitable purpose of organization
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
2 matching grants · $961,553 · through 2022Largest: $662,946 to DUKE UNIVERSITY — paternal transgenerational epigenetic legacy from use of cannabis
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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 →