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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 “convening”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.3M to OXFAM AMERICA INC — core support to create a global program, partnering with global south scholars and movements, to reshape economic ideas globally, towards a post-neoliberal paradigm by shifting nar…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
109 matching grants · $8.4M · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Black Researchers Collective — to support (1) a cross-community convening of community members from bronzeville, south chicago, south shore, washington park, and woodlawn, and (2) individual community convenings
Largest: $273,000 to TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE — to research and convene stakeholders on program integrity reforms to the farm bill and defense programs.
Largest: $33,000 to DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL — to support digital promise and its league of innovative schools spring 2025 convening in pittsburgh
Catholic Legal Immigration NetworkSilver Spring, MDCharity · may take applications
84 matching grants · $12.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — increase immigration legal services by expanding training for nonprofits to help staff members become accredited representatives under the u.s. department of justice office of lega…
Largest: $2.4M to INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — to allow the grantee to create and manage a travel and learning fund for latin american individuals and organizations to participate in convenings, exchanges, education, global lea…
Largest: $4.0M to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — to sustain the institute, which will convene, support and provide accessible, actionable, nonpartisan insights to the stakeholders and institutions that design, operate, study and …
Largest: $100,000 to Catalyst Education Inc — to support the higher education equity network (heen) to convene leaders, lead sector-wide dialogue and develop research on postsecondary outcomes for black, latino/a, and indigeno…
Largest: $3.5M to CSIR CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY — in support of convening a consortium of research and clinical institutions to advance pathogen genomics to track sars-cov-2 variants and accelerate bioinformatics and global data s…
Largest: $138,183 to Trailhead Inst — 76851 convening innovators, researchers, and advoc
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $23.9M · through 2024Largest: $66,104 to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS — sponsorship - nash of system heads, equity action intensive convening 2024 grant, equity action intensive travel grant - higher education in prison grantee convening al
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
53 matching grants · $8.2M · through 2023Largest: $350,000 to POISE FOUNDATION — increase the knowledge and networks of black led philanthropic funds and institutions to advance power building in philanthropy through research, convenings, and network developmen…
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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 →