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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 “chancellors”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.0M to CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — development of solutions to improve global health; discovery and translational sciences; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $1.2M to CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — in support of development of new methods to understand endosymbiosis and to create a database to support eukaryogenesis research.
Largest: $287,000 to THE CHANCELLOR SCHOLARS AND MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE — medical research
Largest: $4.7M to CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — gmp manufacture of blood stage vaccine antigens
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
16 matching grants · $3.7M · through 2024Largest: $696,469 to CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — virtues & vocations: developing sustainable, scalable, sector-specific programmes
Largest: $1.5M to THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE — new insights into crohn's disease from studying naked mole rats
Largest: $6.2M to THE CHANCELLORS MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — kavli institute for nanoscale discovery at oxford phase i/ii
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $33.1M · through 2023Largest: $12.6M to UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — for uc berkeley graduate school of journalism. to support the undocumented student program. to support the uc regents, cal performances shenson concerts. to support the dreamers (u…
Largest: $200,000 to CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSIT — to support the blavatnik school of government to disseminate research findings and identify a suitable implementation strategy for anchoring accountability for mass atrocities thro…
Largest: $2.9M to CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — support for schmidt ai in science postdocs
Largest: $550,000 to CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSIT — to support research on green industrial policy and economic transformation in latin america through the oxford department for international development
Largest: $223,000 to UWM FOUNDATION — "great lake research vessel(payment 2 of 10)", prasad talent fund,2024 chancellor's fund
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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 →