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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 “cosmos”
Where the money went
Largest: $11,500 to Cosmos Club Foundation — mcgovern award lectures and student scholars endowment fund
Largest: $250,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — cosmos: student financial aid, scholarship endowment, and site expansion
Cosmos Club Historic PreservationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $910,726 to COSMOS CLUB — historic preservation
Largest: $10,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — for cosmos scholarships
Largest: $52,500 to COSMOS MONTESSORI — educational programs
Largest: $2,500 to COSMOS FOUNDATION — further charitable goal of organizat
Largest: $2,500 to COSMOS CLUB FOUNDATION — advance science, literature, & arts
Foundation for Individual Rights andPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $250,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to COSMOS INSTITUTE INC — fire and cosmos institute are collaborating on a fast grants project to promote the development of truth-seeking ai.
The Ahmanson FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
1 matching grant · $50,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAL — toward scholarships for los angeles county students attending the cosmos summer program, 2024
Largest: $31,900 to JON GERTNER — to support the research and writing of how to build something that will last forever: nasa voyagers epic journey into the cosmos, to be published by random house
Accelerate 500Washington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $10,000 · through 2022Largest: $5,000 to GULF COAST COSMOS COMICBOOK CO LLC — business continuity
Largest: $2,500 to CITY OF COSMOS — member co-op matches
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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 →