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12 funders with a record of paying for “communication”
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Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloBuffalo, NYCharity · may take applications
1057 matching grants · $62.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.8M to SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC — charitable support. any restrictions have been communicated to the grantee.
National Endowment for DemocracyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
195 matching grants · $159.7M · through 2023Largest: $34.1M to NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — education, communication, & culture + democratic governance & political parties
Largest: $700,000 to BURNESS COMMUNICATIONS INC — to implement a strategic communications plan and provide communications assistance to indigenous, afro-descendant, local community, and other organizations working on natural resou…
Largest: $300,000 to PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — berkeley media studies group - promoting health equity: to build the organizational and communications capacity of local health departments, government agencies, community-based or…
Largest: $100,000 to Theatre Communications Group Inc — to support tcg as a communications partner.
Largest: $200,000 to Diversified Communications — to support and expedite a transition to greater industry leadership of sustainable innovation in the seafood sector through an industry-targeted communications platform.
Largest: $350,000 to GREENLATINOS — for america the beautiful for all communication research
Largest: $250,000 to NATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND — provide native scholars access to communication and stem-related fields, including radio communications , wireless engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data commu…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
54 matching grants · $24.2M · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to SISTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH LIMITED BY GUARANTEE — to establish a communications network and promote effective communication of 20 sister communicators of women religious congregations in ghana
Largest: $200,000 to COMMUNICATIONS NETWK — 80951 general operating support grant for the communications network
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
63 matching grants · $17.7M · through 2023Largest: $375,000 to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — to support the "strategic animal agriculture fund", for animal agriculture reform collaborative's general operations, to support, as a fiscal sponsor, food and farm communications …
Largest: $3.3M to SCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC — in support of a research-practice collaboration that spans the development of a compelling science documentary and the research on audience impact to provide new insights for effec…
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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 →