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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 “catalogue”
Where the money went
Largest: $123,000 to PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION — general operating expenses for fiscal year 2022-2023, including support for biennial souls a' fire conference, online catholic roundtable oral history project and processing and ca…
Largest: $73,000 to SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM — funding of fellowship program and art exhibition catalogue
Largest: $375,000 to ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION INC — to support photography, cataloguing, and research for a digital catalogue raisonne of romare bearden's work, among the first of this kind
Largest: $50,000 to CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY GREATER WASHINGTON — guide to giving
Largest: $140,000 to PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — exhibition catalogue and support
The Jay Defeo FoundationSan Francisco, CA
5 matching grants · $27,500 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to Laguna Art Museum — support for catalogue to accompany exhibition
Largest: $75,000 to Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation — for the exhibition catalogue, going dark: the contemporary figure at the edge of visibility
Buddhist Digital Resource CenterBoston, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $663,541 to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — usaid subgrantee to catalogue and incorporate buddhist text into a digital library.
Largest: $105,000 to THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — core support for research and care of james van der zee archive and to provide public access to the catalogue of the world-renowned photographer and chronicler of new york city dur…
Largest: $200,000 to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY — castello potentino & catalogue of vesuvius exhibit and sorolla catalogue raisonne
Largest: $326,354 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to optimize, scale, and study the social science prediction platform, an online resource for collecting and cataloguing expert forecasts about the results of social science experim…
Largest: $121,172 to Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy — to identify, catalogue, engage, and build capacity of local nonprofit entities in coahoma county.
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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 →