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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 “chest”
Where the money went
Largest: $58,600 to CONGREGATION L'DOR V DOR — to extend financial aid and assistance to trusts or community chests to further their ongoing purpose
Largest: $80,000 to CARE Chest — medical resource program for 2022
Largest: $622,598 to The Community Chest of the Western Cape — supporting the expansion of the yearbeyond youth service program
Largest: $10,000 to PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY TREASURE CHEST FOUNDATION — helping hands group grants grant
Largest: $15,000 to MINEOLA COMMUNITY CHEST — to enable mineola community chest to donate to various charitable causes in mineola and the wood county area
Largest: $3,273 to IOWA FALLS COMMUNITY CHEST INC (UNITED WAY) — matching gift
Community Foundation of Greater NewNew Britain, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2025Largest: $297,650 to COMMUNITY CHEST OF NEW BRITAIN AND BERLIN INC — 2025 designated grants
Largest: $10,000 to THE FARMINGTON COMMUNITY CHEST — community chest cares
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $167,150 · through 2024Largest: $44,750 to Concord-Carlisle Community Chest — operating support/annual fund
Hope ChestLa Grange, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $945,630 · through 2024Largest: $288,000 to PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH — cash grants are made to assist with funding the operatiosn of constance morris house (cmh), a domestic violence shelter and branch of pillars. additionally, the home chest pays cer…
Largest: $150,000 to HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST — for the general, scientific or education purpose
Largest: $905,600 to AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS — 1st installment for the "pf education and quality improvement program"
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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 →