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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.
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Largest: $1,600 to DIANA CASTANEDA — total of year end monetary gifts given to employees of landon ridge in lieu of residents tipping employees throughout the year. the lrrc considers this method of showing the reside…
Largest: $3,500 to AMIRA THOMPSON-CENTER — provide scholarships for high school students considering entering thefield of law
Largest: $500,000 to CENTURY FOUNDATION — core support for policy research related to labor protections and workforce policies universally applied to workers regardless of labor class, considering power building design and…
Largest: $447,890 to MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER — to support implementation of the recently-passed, omnibus supervision bill in minnesota, providing guidance and expertise to agency leaders, and monitoring implementation issues; f…
Largest: $350,748 to SAGE BIONETWORKS — 79476 developing a tool to encourage researchers to inform their work by positively considering community interests in order to advance health equity
Fig Tree FundJacksonville, FL
4 matching grants · $280,000 · through 2025Largest: $70,000 to The Bolles School — funds for students that are considered in good academic standing & demonstrate financial need
Largest: $256,000 to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — in support of developing novel mathematical and conceptual models that consider symbiont variation and symbiont transmission in the evolution of aquatic symbioses.
Largest: $100,000 to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — collaboration is at the heart of the nature conservancy's restoration efforts to establish a corridor connecting the talledega national forest in alabama to the sheffield-paulding …
SistersongAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $2.8M to BLACK MAMAS MATTER ALLIANCE (BMMA) — at the end of 2022, bmma applied for separate (c)(3) status. bmma was previously considered a program of sistersong. these funds were monies collected by sistersong which were rest…
Largest: $20,000 to Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy — the june 2025 hep conference will gather approximately 50 participants from policy, practice, philanthropy, and scholarship to consider the design principles for the future of the …
Largest: $500,000 to Migration Policy Institute — for renewed support of convenings to consider pragmatic policy solutions for increasing legal immigration pathways
JlrjNew York, NY
2 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $753,448 to THE NACHSHON PROJECT — operated by programming ii, programming iii, and harbelco, nachshon was developed to operate with the goal of impacting the life trajectory of jewishly engaged college students by …
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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 →