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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 “coral”
Where the money went
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $10.5M · through 2023Largest: $169,814 to CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION — expanding fl coral nurseries for restoration
National Marine Sanctuary FoundationSilver Spring, MDCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $7.3M · through 2024Largest: $626,959 to CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION — restoration and monitoring of edr and coral bleaching emergency response
Revive & RestoreSausalito, CACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2025Largest: $454,371 to CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE — grant for scientific research: advanced coral toolkit project with coral screening platform
Early Learning Coalition of BrowardFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $4.9M · through 2024Largest: $252,493 to LADYBIRD CORAL SPRINGS LLC DBA LADYBIRD ACADEMY OF CORAL — child care reimbursements and other grants (non-recurring) to providers
The Robert J Gunterberg Charitable FoundationCape Coral, FL
24 matching grants · $806,275 · through 2024Largest: $80,000 to CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER — operating grant
American Association ofSilver Spring, MDCharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $615,066 · through 2024Largest: $152,803 to BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION — fl broodstock managm & coral holding project
Largest: $150,000 to GREAT BARRIER REEF FOUNDATION USA INC — support for the great barrier reef coral propagation initiative to protect large-scale areas of the great barrier reef from coral bleaching.
Largest: $50,000 to Coral Reef Alliance — the long-term goal of this project is to identify and protect coral reef networks in the caribbean that have strong chances of adapting to climate change.
Largest: $1.1M to CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — in support of methods development to advance cell atlases, single-cell resolution coral proteomics, and long-term coral cell culture systems.
The Oak Hill FundCharlottesville, VA
4 matching grants · $252,335 · through 2023Largest: $43,945 to ROATAN MARINE PARK INTERNATIONAL INC — to 1) increase capacity for coral restoration and conservation in the bay islands of honduras by offering training to key stakeholders and webinars on coral spawning data collectio…
The Miami FoundationMiami, FLCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $267,972 · through 2024Largest: $98,876 to CORAL MORPHOLOGIC LLC — program support
Largest: $60,000 to Coral Reef Alliance — scaling solutions for saving coral in the mesoamerican reef through effective marine protected area (mpa) management
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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 →