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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 “cooperative”
Where the money went
National Rural Utilities CooperativeDulles, VACharity · may take applications
92 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to CONCHO VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC — integrity fund-threatens existence under the cooperative business model
Chs FoundationInver Grove Heights, MN
58 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — cooperative leaders and scholars program
Largest: $300,000 to FOREIGN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION CENTER MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMEN — for the secretariat of the china council for international cooperation on environment and development to develop research on china's green supply chain policies and its impacts to …
Largest: $50,000 to COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — research and learning opportunities
The Working WorldNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
48 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $235,000 to CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — cooperative development
Largest: $200,000 to Northcountry Cooperative Foundation — for general operating support, and to build a revolving working capital fund for housing cooperative conversion
Largest: $250,000 to COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RE — program/operating support
Largest: $25,000 to MORIAH COOPERATIVE INC — program support
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2023Largest: $341,333 to Urban Growers Collective Inc — general operating support. to support cooperative business development for emerging growers via ugc's grower apprenticeship program. support to the fresh moves mobile market to the…
Central Electric Power CooperativeColumbia, SCCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $17.9M · through 2024Largest: $2.0M to PEE DEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC — economic development
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
30 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES LAND — provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of serving as a catalyst for the development of self-supporting communities via cooperative economic …
Jhpiego CorporationBaltimore, MDCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $48.7M · through 2024Largest: $6.8M to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKON BEHALF OF IC — technical assistance under the meeting targets and maintaining epidemic control cooperative agreement
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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 →