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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 “clock”
Where the money went
Smart Beginnings Virginia PeninsulaNewport News, VACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $916,418 · through 2024Largest: $293,759 to TICK TOCK AROUND THE CLOCK LLC — child care slot payment
Largest: $36,970 to LYNNE PEEPLES — to support the research and writing of its time: our broken clocks, our threatened health, and the scientific revolution that could reset us all, published by riverhead books and b…
Largest: $330,049 to UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER — lab-based fundamental tests of general relativity at the interface with quantum mechanics using optical atomic clocks
The American Laryngological RhinologicalOak Brook, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $240,000 · through 2023Largest: $80,000 to CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER DAVID SMITH MD PHD — research grant - circadian clock dysregulation in a model of obstructive sleep apnea
Main Street Community FoundationBristol, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $64,920 · through 2025Largest: $25,450 to AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM — support for capital improvements to the museum and annual distribution for general purposes
Largest: $1.0M to EPIGENETIC CLOCK FOUNDATION — medical research
The Robert & Marion Schamann Brozowski FoundationLinden, NJ
4 matching grants · $22,500 · through 2025Largest: $6,000 to DINA'S DWELLINGS - TOWN CLOCK CDC — general charitable contribution
Largest: $81,039 to BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION — for multi-messenger astronomy in exotic field modality with gps atomic clock data
Largest: $75,000 to RESPOND CRISIS TRANSLATION — respond is a collective of language activists mobilizing around the clock to provide trauma-informed, life-critical translation and interpretation services to asylum seekers, and t…
Connecticut Humanities CouncilMiddletown, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $47,290 · through 2022Largest: $20,900 to AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM — ct cultural fund ope
Largest: $2,000 to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WATCH AND CLOCK COLLECTORS — unrestricted support of the organziation's exempt purpose
Largest: $220,776 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — to test relativity and search for dark matter using high precision clock comparisons across a tabletop network of optical lattice atomic clocks.
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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 →