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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 “context”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to INSTITUTO DE DIREITO GLOBAL — to carry on diagnostic and academic research by black and indigenous students on indigenous peoples and quilombola rights in the context of energy transition, economic development …
Largest: $342,000 to International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics — networking4seed ii: strengthening seed systems through farmer-research networks in a context of agroecological transition in west africa
Largest: $1.3M to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — planetary context of habitability and exobiology
Largest: $233,519 to University of Washington — unpacking the effects of dual credit coursework on college opportunity and equity: a mixed-methods comparative study of different course delivery contexts
Largest: $82,750 to TRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK — $40,000 racial equity learning community and montco 30% project; $42,750 operational support for community resources and programming to advance sdoh social & community context and …
Largest: $112,500 to HARVARD U — 80861 interdisciplinary research leaders: promoting mental health for lgbtq+ youths of color in the context of structural racism and anti-lgbtq+ stigma
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
14 matching grants · $5.3M · through 2024Largest: $504,877 to CENTER OF THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY — thriving in diverse contexts: a study program on psychological science for researchers
Largest: $227,800 to University of Vienna — for participatory research in mena contexts
Largest: $59,850 to INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — to support the un antiracism coalition, a fiscally-sponsored project of the grantee, to investigate and assess the situation of people of african descent in the context of law enfo…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
10 matching grants · $6.2M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to STICHTING IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE — to support the community water and sanitation agency in its growth as a professionalized public utility in ghana, playing a stronger regulatory role within the sector in the contex…
Largest: $250,000 to California Ocean Science Trust — to research options for providing flexibility and adaptability to communities and fisheries in the context of climate change.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
11 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2022Largest: $1.0M to FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — optimize native communities, families and local control of both access and production to community food resources in ways that honor native culture via supporting innovation and li…
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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 →