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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 “changemakers”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to YAYASAN ASHOKA PEMBAHARU BAGI MASYARAKAT — for strengthening the everyone a changemaker movement in selected regions to develop collaboration for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Palm Healthcare FoundationWest Palm Beach, FLCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $103,450 · through 2023Largest: $12,500 to The Lupie Girl Inc — community changemaker
Largest: $600,000 to NDN COLLECTIVE INC — to support and enhance the ndn collective changemakers fellowship program
Largest: $75,000 to TAG COMMUNITY VENTURES — to engage youth to create open-street community engagement centers to heal our polity, strengthen our democracy, and empower the next generation of civic changemakers
Largest: $5.4M to NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION — first five nebraska operating support, rooted in relationships program support, communities 4 kids program support, changemakers luncheon support, scaling up project support, data …
Largest: $247,500 to ASHOKA — 78974 partnering with ashoka's next now initiative to bring together social entrepreneurs and other changemakers for collective impact toward gender equity
Largest: $200,000 to THE TECH INTERACTIVE — to support the tech for global good program, elevating stories of global changemakers using tech for social progress
Largest: $11.9M to Moore Impact Inc — to provide agile, thoughtful, and expansive support to individuals, families, and organizations in order to help changemakers solve some of the worlds greatest challenges
Wend IiBentonville, AR
2 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to Social Good Fund — to support the braiding seeds fellowship, which provides funding, mentorship, and a mutually supportive community to aspiring, beginner and intermediate bipoc farmers/land stewards…
Largest: $15,000 to LEADERSHIP TULSA — tulsa changemakers operations
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $90,000 · through 2023Largest: $30,000 to LEADERSHIP ISD - TARRANT COUNTY — to support the civic voices fellowship program that will train twenty tarrant county leaders to become changemakers
Society of Family Planning Research FundDenver, COCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $99,606 · through 2022Largest: $55,687 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRAN — changemakers, emerging scholars
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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 →