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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 “colonial”
Where the money went
Largest: $20,000 to DEBORAH MARIANNE PHILIP — burgher be(longings): the politics of home in colonial and post colonial sri lanka
Alianza De Museos De Puerto RicoSan Juan, PRCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $771,753 · through 2024Largest: $241,790 to MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE PUERTO RICO — support the development and presentation of visual arts and other art exhibits throughout diverse cultural spaces (e.g., museums, community spaces and/or organizations, artist inde…
Lilly EndowmentIndianapolis, IN
13 matching grants · $6.1M · through 2025Largest: $2.5M to COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION — religious liberty initiative
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $6.2M · through 2022Largest: $1.8M to SOCIAL GOOD FUND — to move untethered resources to help shape a future in which we can all heal from generations of colonial trauma and thrive in our cultures.
Largest: $28,333 to S RUSTOM — to create hader halal (with regard to presence) a multi-format project that includes a digital archive, series of public programs, publications, and exhibitions, that critically in…
The Community FoundationRichmond, VACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $193,083 · through 2024Largest: $30,803 to COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION — community vibrancy
Largest: $260,000 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — for the hutchins center for african & african american research for the caste coloniality: dalit, black and the new politics of twenty-first century project
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $233,250 · through 2024Largest: $6,000 to FORT WORTH COLONIAL CHARITIES — for operation costs for colonial charities challenge benefitting folds of honor
Largest: $25,000 to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — 79161 linking health inequities for indigenous americans to colonial subjugation to shift scholarly attention to overcoming legacies of structural racism
Largest: $26,500 to Colonial Court Appointed Special Advocate Program — healthy eating active living (heal) for colonial casa
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $718,998 · through 2024Largest: $354,224 to Colonial Presbyterian Church — religious ministry
Largest: $3,000 to COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG — program support
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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 →