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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 “correcting”
Where the money went
Largest: $83,066 to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — to convene academics and pennsylvania department of corrections staff on the topic of current correctional practices and policies and areas for future research.
American Indian Higher EducationAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $763,788 · through 2023Largest: $34,061 to NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE — nsf piloting a ci-enabled tcu research collaboration, sgu correction tcu
Largest: $8,400 to OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — collaborative research on algebraic group actions, algebraic k-theory, algebro-geometric error correcting codes and related topics
Largest: $3,382 to INSTITUTO VER E VIVER — the objective is to ensure that the vision correction cycle is completed after the diagnosis of poor vision in vision screening events that will happen in public hospitals and soci…
Largest: $150,000 to COMMUNITY ORIENTED CORRECTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — 81551 general operating support for community oriented correctional health services inc.
Largest: $367,626 to NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES — strengthening families and communities
Largest: $113,020 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — institute for research on labor and employment - supporting health: to support the convening of former correctional staff and formerly incarcerated individuals to dialogue, explore…
Seva FoundationBerkeley, CACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $439,675 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION — increase health equity by improving access to eye care and vision correction
Largest: $552,776 to University of Chicago — in support of research to develop a novel multiview computational imaging system comprised of algorithms applied to a line-scanning, superresolution, aberration-corrected microscop…
The Institute for IntergovernmentalTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $385,984 · through 2024Largest: $78,075 to CAMDEN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — opioid overdose prevention activities and care programs upon release from incarceration
Largest: $150,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — for research and communications work that will generate evidence that helps shape efforts to simultaneously reduce racial and ethnic disparities and correctional populations
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $111,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Correctional Association of New York — operating support/annual fund
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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 →