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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 “cornell”
Where the money went
Largest: $480,500 to WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL — multi-site validation study of eye tracking-based measure of autism symptom severity
Largest: $5,000 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — cornell botanic gardens - annual fund
Largest: $1.7M to CORNELL U — 79754 developing rapidly responsive community-engaged research on media-messaging and narrative-change strategies to promote health and racial equity
Largest: $883,622 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to conduct the first large-scale and methodologically rigorous survey on management practices and culture in research laboratories
Largest: $1.7M to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — k-12 education; postsecondary education; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $7.0M to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE) — dean's special scholarship fund
Largest: $30,000 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — cornell botanic gardens operational support -- park park
Largest: $275,139 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to research the effect of health insurer acquisition of physicians and ambulatory surgery centers on prices, costs, and the quality of medical care.
Largest: $918,048 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to support scientific research by dr. judy cha, including development of in situ probes for monitoring materials growth by chemical vapor deposition and of scalable fabrication pro…
The New York Community TrustNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $912,020 · through 2024Largest: $183,810 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — for research.
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2025Largest: $402,500 to WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY — sex-biased tlr7 signaling in demyelination and its inhibition by small molecules
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $6.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — scholarships & financial aid
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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 →