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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 “cohesion”
Where the money went
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
378 matching grants · $22.3M · through 2022Largest: $27,500 to B U I L D INCORPORATED — for programming to build community cohesion through the chicago fund for safe and peaceful communities. grant made via fiscal sponsor, neighborspace., for programming to build comm…
Youthbuild USARoxbury, MACharity · may take applications
234 matching grants · $27.7M · through 2024Largest: $708,474 to SAN JOSE CONSERV CORP CHARTER SCHL — to create a solid mentoring component in youthbuild programs.to support building increased efficacy, cohesion and innovation in the youthbuild network.to support program on substan…
Largest: $358,333 to NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC — 80352 advancing a broad, cohesive, and consistent advocacy and research agenda focused on community-based development organizations
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
9 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2023Largest: $232,614 to SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — improve the medical, social, and economic systems in colorado to eliminate inequities in maternal and child health outcomes by strengthening culturally cohesive programming to blac…
Largest: $1.0M to TIDES CENTER — project support to aid supports one nation/one project, a two-year initiative to improve social cohesion and community well-being through arts and culture
Largest: $200,000 to HEALTH OF MOTHER EARTH FOUNDATION — for a project to build communities cohesion for socio-ecological transformation and consensus for a just energy transition in nigeria
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
4 matching grants · $3.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.3M to MERCY CORPS — to promote social cohesion between refugee and host communities and foster mutually beneficial interactions through economic opportunities, improved livelihoods, and strengthened c…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
4 matching grants · $825,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to Research Foundation of the City University of New York — to bring together members of a sjc research consortium convening and affiliated review committee members to strengthen group cohesion, share lessons learned from previously funded …
Asian American FederationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $103,209 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to ASIAN AMERICAN COHESION — program expenses
United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyAllentown, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $149,833 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to COHESION NETWORK INC — program operating costs
Ghr FoundationMinneapolis, MN
3 matching grants · $425,000 · through 2022Largest: $175,000 to CARDINAL ONAIYEKAN FOUNDATION FOR PEACE (COFP) — build capacity of interfaith leaders and actors to counter extremism and enhance social cohesion in africa through cofp peace fellowship program
Largest: $404,000 to VANGUARD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — to support equitable development in detroits historic north end by transforming the 10-block east grand boulevard streetscape into a cohesive, attractive and pedestrian-friendly co…
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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 →