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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 “course”
Where the money went
Largest: $103,980 to NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY — the establishment of skills development courses.
Largest: $6,500 to Breyound Haywood — assist qualifying veterans with rent or mortgage payments while they attend college full time to further their career or start a new career through college courses at an accredited…
Largest: $12,500 to LAMBRINI ANNA VIGLI — scholarships are given to students to give them the opportunity to attend a medical school located in greece. the scholarship funds are to be used by the scholarship recipient at s…
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
53 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to Arizona State University — grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, stem-based inventions and gai…
Spencer Educational FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $659,528 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to BRENAU UNIVERSITY — course development
Michigan College Access NetworkLansing, MICharity · may take applications
31 matching grants · $398,000 · through 2024Largest: $40,500 to WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — cbmi mini grant, college planning course, fafsa frenzy, innovative program grant
Techpoint FoundationIndianapolis, INCharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $227,971 · through 2024Largest: $15,991 to SOUTH KNOX HIGH SCHOOL — south knox was our first high school robotics course grant recipient. vex roboti
Largest: $10,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — to integrate the engineering for one planet ("eop") framework content into required undergraduate courses with a goal of empowering students to act through project courses, increas…
Largest: $350,000 to COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY — care redi course scholarships
Largest: $334,580 to BARD COLLEGE — to ensure osun students across the network full access to library resources required for osun online courses and network collaborative courses
Largest: $894,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — to support faculty and student scholarship and the creation of new courses that deploy speculative methods and center the histories of people of color to envision more just environ…
Southwest Region Ems & TraumaVancouver, WACharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $287,187 · through 2024Largest: $26,553 to COWLITZ CO EMS & TRAUMA CARE COUNCIL — support ongoing emt training courses and materials
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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 →