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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 “cooling”
Where the money went
Climateworks FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $21.8M · through 2024Largest: $12.8M to THE ENERGY FOUNDATION — to expand access to sustainable cooling and reduce greenhouse gas emissions ($750,000); to protect the climate, reduce pollution, and strengthen economies ($1,670,000); sustainable…
Northwest Regional Council of SmartEverett, WACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $223,747 · through 2025Largest: $45,664 to CAPITAL HEATING & COOLING — contractor equity assistance
East Bay Community FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $145,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to THE COOL GIRLS INC — cool girls club (cool tech/cool scholars), cool girls club-cool tech/cool scholars
Largest: $200,000 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to study an electric-dipole-moment (edm) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped sroh, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upper limit on the electron e…
Central Electric CooperativeRedmond, ORCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $618,333 to JUST KOMFORT HEATING & COOLING LLC — energy efficiency incentive
Women'S Business Development CenterChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $130,000 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to HD FIELDS HEATING AND COOLING INC — small business assistance grants
Largest: $500,000 to IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE — to make arrays of trapped molecules cooled to a few microkelvin and use them to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron.
Largest: $625,000 to (197) MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — climate: to jointly manage an extreme heat task force to implement covid-safe cooling strategies in the most covid impacted communities of greater boston
Mystic River WatershedArlington, MACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $245,643 · through 2025Largest: $67,796 to EVERETTE COMMUNITY GROWERS — covid safe cooling
Largest: $1,000 to Academics Are Cool — math is cool sponsorship
Largest: $3.4M to CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION — to support the clean cooling collaborative for the transformation of the cooling sector
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2023Largest: $782,500 to COOL EFFECT INC — sustainable environment
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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 →