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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 “chains”
Where the money went
Largest: $4.8M to TECHNOSERVE INC — people in supply chains
Largest: $300,000 to Regents of the University of Minnesota — to make thefood systems supply-chain sustainability (foods3) supply chain model publicly available.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
34 matching grants · $7.8M · through 2024Largest: $502,630 to UNIVERSITE QUISQUEYA — increase smallholder farmer income generation and value-chain viability by supporting quisqueya university's school of agriculture's (fsae) capacity to conduct applied research to …
Largest: $300,000 to FOREIGN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION CENTER MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMEN — for the secretariat of the china council for international cooperation on environment and development to develop research on china's green supply chain policies and its impacts to …
Largest: $3,250 to ISAEL MELENDEZ — scholarship to pursue a supply chain management degree
Largest: $158,312 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — in support of laboratory and field experiments to tease apart the relationships between pairs of interacting microbes and an important component of dissolved organic matter in the …
Largest: $850,000 to TIDES FOUNDATION — project support: clean clothes campaign: economic and gender justice in the global apparel supply chain: a workerdriven solution
Largest: $111,000 to Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles — integrating value chain, farming research network and agroecological intensification approaches on bambara nut based farming system for food systems transformation
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2023Largest: $500,000 to Good Shepherd Food Bank — investing in maine's first at scale green vegetable processing supply chain.
Humanity UnitedSan Francisco, CA
10 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2022Largest: $270,000 to OceanMind Limited — supply chains & forced labor
Goodwill Industries InternationalRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2025Largest: $281,944 to GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES — google gdca ai essentials 2024, operations (non-grant related activities), walmart supply chain traceability pilot 2024
Largest: $116,458 to UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FOR FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC — in support of ecosystem research on the u.s. reforestation value chain to develop inv. strategies and market infrastructure that address systemic bottlenecks, and to improve the un…
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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 →