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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 “couples”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.1M to FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-NUREMBERG — to support experimental investigations of the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of solid materials coupled with optical cavities.
Madeleine H Gordon Dba Gift of LifeCincinnati, OHCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $171,067 · through 2025Largest: $44,760 to UC PHYSICIANS - TO ASSIST DESERVING COUPLES WITH INFERTILITY — to assist deserving couples with expenses for fertility treatments
Largest: $100,000 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — research: learning how to engineer spin-phonon coupling in molecules and materials
Largest: $162,500 to BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — 16p11.2 copy number variant effects on the gene-metabolome coupling
Largest: $2.3M to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — support for scientific research on m2lines - multiscale machine learning in coupled earth system modeling
Largest: $245,417 to TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — to develop a state-of-the-art, coupled, numerical model of the helheim glacier system
Largest: $50,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO STUDIES — to use innovative cell biology techniques coupled with genomics to investigate the role of mitochondrial-derived vesicles in cancer cell metabolism.
Largest: $25,000 to University of Illinois — promoting healthy and supportive couple relationsh
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $862,500 · through 2025Largest: $230,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — ad pathophysiology alters the level of electrical and chemical synapse coupling in the network of gabaergic pv+ interneurons early in disease course
Largest: $377,572 to CATHOLIC WOMEN & COUPLES NFP INC — natural family planning for catholic
Largest: $333,120 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — to achieve size-regulation of nucleic acid based biomolecular condensates and sustained cycles of condensate formation-growth-dissolution by coupling condensation dynamics and chem…
Largest: $160,000 to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — epigenetic coupling of dna methylation and chromatin structure on leukemic transformation and therapeutic response
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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 →