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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 “cohort”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.8M to Rutgers St U of NJ Ctr for St Hlt Pol — 77873 implementing a population-based cohort study
Largest: $100,000 to YALE LAW SCHOOL JACKSON WILLIS — scholarship - samvid scholars program - cohort 3
Largest: $570,526 to University of Nebraska Foundation — to provide four years of scholarship support for the 2023 cohort (#2) of peter kiewit foundation engineering academy.
Largest: $90,250 to Mission Graduates — mg promise scholars - cohort 11 -2022
Largest: $47,500 to PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE — wrf post-doc fellowship: du 2022 cohort
Partnership for Los Angeles SchoolsLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
73 matching grants · $9.0M · through 2024Largest: $929,678 to LEADING EDUCATORS — effective implementation cohort participation funding
Largest: $481,865 to LEADERSHIP FOR A NETWORKED WORLD — project support grant will support leadership for a networked world (lnw) to design the 2025 nextgen frontline innovators in action institute cohort ii and ongoing programming for …
Largest: $300,000 to (548) NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION INC — to support springpoint in the implementation of the second cohort of the transformative leaders of massachusetts fellowship and pilot extended programming experiences for the first…
Largest: $385,435 to MAINE MEDICAL CENTER — autism inpatient collection phase 4: increasing research access to the severely affected autism population through a deeply characterized recontactable cohort
Largest: $4.4M to University of Texas at Austin — dell scholars ut for me at ut austin: 2022-2023 cohort
Allies for Community BusinessChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
61 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $20,510 to CHAZERLY DESIGNS LLC — support for neighborhood entrepreneurship lab cohorts designed to provide assistance to small businesses
East Bay Community FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
64 matching grants · $7.4M · through 2024Largest: $324,301 to EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER — general support, youth enrichment program support, general support - stabilizer cohort, general support for 2022-2023, general support for capacity building from the ascend: blo fu…
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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 →