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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 “commodity”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.1M to WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — to support implementation of business practices that reduce habitat conversion, overfishing, and illegal practices in the management, sourcing, and trade of agriculture and seafood…
Largest: $300,000 to FOREIGN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION CENTER MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMEN — for the secretariat of the china council for international cooperation on environment and development to develop research on china's green supply chain policies and its impacts to …
National Cotton Council of AmericaCordova, TNCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $4.6M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH — subawardee in climate-smart commodities grant
Sustainable NorthwestPortland, ORCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $791,726 to ECOTRUST — to build markets for climate-smart commodities and invest in america's climate-smart producers to strengthen us rural and agricultural communities
Conservation Innovation FundWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $770,777 · through 2024Largest: $213,546 to MARYLAND & VIRGINIA MILK PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION — us department of agriculture partnerships for climate smart commodities
Chs FoundationInver Grove Heights, MN
5 matching grants · $295,361 · through 2025Largest: $229,361 to LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — latc commodity risk management lab
Promotion ServicesKansas City, KSCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2024Largest: $1.8M to GA AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY FOR MILK — see sch. i, part iv
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $202,500 · through 2021Largest: $101,250 to Good Food Institute — general operating support. support for key research and analyses to advance sustainable, humane alternatives to commodity meat.
Largest: $250,000 to PEMPEM INC — support in piloting a marketplace for smallholder farmers in tropical forest commodities.
Largest: $250,000 to MIGHTY EARTH — to transform global markets to protect human rights and eliminate commodity-driven deforestation.
Largest: $385,000 to Field to Market — to improve supply chain sustainability measurement, reporting and incentive structures for u.s. commodity crop production.
Largest: $175,000 to GREENPEACE FUND INC — support for ending deforestation in indonesia through market and political interventions, contributing to improved transparency and good governance in the forest-risk commodity sec…
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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 →