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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 “communityworks”
Where the money went
Largest: $400,000 to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — to support the "youth as health care change agents" program.
Largest: $20,000 to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — financial opportunity center
Largest: $500,000 to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — human services
Hollingsworth FundsGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $550,000 · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to COMMUNITYWORKS CAROLINA — general operating support
Largest: $220,000 to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS — exempt purpose
United Way of Greenville CountyGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $330,000 · through 2024Largest: $120,000 to COMMUNITYWORKS INC — donor designation, program allocation
Largest: $100,000 to COMMUNITYWORKS IN WEST VIRGINIA INC — to provide housing and community development organizations in west virginia with summer interns; creating future capacity in the nonprofit housing and community development sectors
Largest: $40,000 to COMMUNITYWORKS — spartanburg affordable housing
Largest: $16,125 to COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC — communityworks services
Largest: $300,000 to COMMUNITYWORKS CAROLINA — general operating
Largest: $250,000 to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS — dye works capital support
RedfSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to CommunityWorks — growth portfolio
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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 →