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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 “cattle”
Where the money went
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $246,334 · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - CATTLE BARON'S BALL — for cancer research supporting the dallas cattle baron's ball of the american cancer society - no benefits
US Livestock Genetics ExportsMount Horeb, WICharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $208,498 · through 2024Largest: $60,339 to BROWN SWISS CATTLE BREEDERS — market development
Largest: $85,000 to Clara Whitman — cattle scholars of homstead program
Council On Dairy Cattle BreedingBowie, MDCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $945,188 · through 2025Largest: $138,697 to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — transforming dair cattle lameness management and improving dairy cattle animal welfare by addressing lesions
Largest: $15,000 to TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS — for assistance to the foundation's scholarship program
Largest: $601,785 to WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — to support integration of habitat conversion information into cattle traceability system to scale up production and export of deforestation- and conversion-free beef and leather in…
Largest: $50,000 to Nemours Wildlife Foundation — piney woods cattle study fund
Sunshine Bible Academy FoundationMiller, SDCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $451,611 · through 2025Largest: $141,763 to SUNSHINE BIBLE ACADEMY — cattle program
Largest: $2,000 to Makani Miranda — award an outstanding college student, which was raised in a big island, hawaii working ranch or has a demonstrated history orking with horses and/or cattle
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $106,568 · through 2023Largest: $71,285 to SPUR LAKE CATTLE COBADGER CREEK CORP — conservation projects
Zero FoodprintSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $50,899 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to REVERSE JL BAR CATTLE COMPANY LLC — restore all grant
Washington Cattle Feeders AssociationYakima, WACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $27,955 · through 2022Largest: $5,591 to POST 5 CATTLE LLC — weather stations and maintenance
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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 →

