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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 “conversation”
Largest: $878,993 to HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE — community conversations steering committee 2024-25
Largest: $601,785 to WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — to support integration of habitat conversion information into cattle traceability system to scale up production and export of deforestation- and conversion-free beef and leather in…
Largest: $200,000 to CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — core support for the women's health and rights program to ensure that all women, have the rights, resources and agency to make decisions about their bodies by influencing the publi…
Grantmakers in AgingWhite Plains, NYCharity · may take applications
34 matching grants · $834,018 · through 2024Largest: $168,666 to NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING — changing care conversion project
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
30 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO — to support student mentoring, an exhibition, and a conversation with photographers wendy ewald (1992) and susan meiselas (1992) alongside researcher and co-author laura wexler
Largest: $66,662 to WASHINGTON U IN ST LOUIS SCH OF MED — 77292 investigating how to address surgeon-patient cost conversations, cost referrals, patients' financial toxicity, and high-quality decision-making
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $11.9M · through 2022Largest: $12,500 to Mediators Foundation Inc — support for livingroom conversations project. support for living room conversations project
Trevor ProjectWest Hollywood, CACharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $302,500 · through 2022Largest: $35,000 to EQUALITY MICHIGAN — public education on conversion therapy and trans youth protections
Largest: $400,000 to OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — safeguarding the lives and wellbeing of lgbtq+ people through eradicating conversion practices
Largest: $400,000 to THE CONVERSATION US INC — to connect local scholars to local/regional newsrooms to produce stories that reflect their combined expertise and more deeply inform local audiences.
Largest: $200,000 to West Central Initiative — to strengthen civic participation in rural democratic process through organized outreach, training, and conversation
Largest: $250,000 to THE ASIA SOCIETY — to support the grantee's online platform to research and publish a well-informed and vibrant conversation on u.s.-china relations in order to educate the public and decrease anti-a…
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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 →