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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 “cites”
Where the money went
Childrens Services FoundationSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $174,101 to TLC Child & Family Services — cited funding for calaim svcs
Fox Communities Credit UnionAppleton, WICharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $58,500 · through 2024Largest: $17,500 to FOX CITES FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS — general support/sponsor
Women Helping Women Fund Tri-CitiesRichland, WACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $65,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to GRACE KITCHEN — empowering and employing women out of poverty in the tri-cites area
Largest: $20,000 to Cite de la Sant Foundation — scholarships and continuing education grants
Largest: $65,000 to CITE DE LA MUSIQUE - PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS — for the exhibition of the work "la musica josephine red/black" by renowned artist barbara chase-riboud
Largest: $112,500 to CITE LORE — 78538 using the arts from many cultural traditions to help health care workers care for patients at the end of life
Largest: $799,153 to Northeastern University — dr. lisa feldman barrett is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. she is a university distingu…
Martin Luther King Jr-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $1.4M to MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — operations support, diabetes center of excellence program, prenatal program, post discharge clinic, home paramedicine program, and path cited street medicine/ecm program.
Largest: $462,310 to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — to support cites work related to sharks
Largest: $249,777 to DATA CITE — to transition international geosample number registration services and supporting technology to datacite
Largest: $81,200 to UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE — wave turbulence
Largest: $20,000 to Future Generations — to support the pak nan ginen community park, cite soleil bibliotek, cite soleil peace prize, and konbit soley leve programming in haiti
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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 →