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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 “comparable”
Where the money went
Largest: $225,000 to INDIANA UNIVERSITY — to support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "global slaveries, fugitivity, and the afterlives of unfreedom: interconnections in comparative dialogue"
Largest: $442,640 to MINNESOTA U OF — 80970 updating and expanding state health compare's data tool and website and continuing support for a subset of culture of health measures, 2023-2025
Largest: $6.4M to EVIDENCE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — to support the institute for clinical and economic review research that provides independent analyses of the comparative cost effectiveness for newly-introduced pharmaceutical drug…
Largest: $109,000 to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — support for research to identify comparative success rates of new businesses which receive individualistic or cooperative eso support & explore if those who support more of a singl…
Largest: $300,000 to GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION — in support of scaling the food system dashboard in order to track and compare global food systems vital signs
Largest: $350,000 to CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — for research and production of an edited volume on the comparative performance of democracies in the global south
Largest: $12,000 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — 2022 baltimore research grant: comparative analysis of gait in neurodevelopmental disorders using computer vision techniques
Largest: $700,000 to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — ecological study of the comparative health effects of housing-based interventions
Largest: $118,924 to Regents of the University of California at San Diego — informing medicare prescription drug price negotiations: net prices and international comparative effectiveness assessments
Largest: $19,565 to PATRICK SLACK — negotiated frontier territorialities and agencies: a longitudinal study comparing two ethnic minority rural districts in northern vietnam
Largest: $149,712 to GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — to investigate community perspectives on the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral mining activities in the united states across three comparative case studies
Largest: $35,633 to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — program support for comparative research of the cms and nc teacher workforces, including preparation, effectiveness and retention of excellent teachers.
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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 →