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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 “chapman”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.0M to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — research, general support & education
Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — chapman conference
The Ahmanson FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
8 matching grants · $530,000 · through 2023Largest: $90,000 to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — scholarship support, 2023-2024
Largest: $41,667 to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — student scholarships/hardship fund
Largest: $43,028 to University of California-Berkeley — scholarships for fatima gordon (2,500), heather chapman (5,000), iliana lazaro (7,500), jack yu (4,828), janie chen (5,200), jose cisneros (5,000), karrar alrubaye (7,500), kevin t…
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
6 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2024Largest: $534,406 to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — consciousness & free will: a joint neuroscientific philosophical investigations
Largest: $20,000 to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — women of chapman - christmas at the ritz program
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $5.1M · through 2023Largest: $5.0M to Chapman Partnership Inc — day 1 families fund
Largest: $10,000 to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — student scholarships
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
3 matching grants · $8.0M · through 2024Largest: $4.0M to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — to enhance and elevate chapman universitys science and engineering
The Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukee, WICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $485,413 · through 2024Largest: $154,512 to CHAPMAN UNIVIVERSITY — research subaward
Baptist Health South FloridaCoral Gables, FLCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $155,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to Chapman Partnership Inc — chapman partnership clinic support
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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 →