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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 “crises”
Where the money went
United Jewish Appeal-Federation ofNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
138 matching grants · $358.7M · through 2024Largest: $100.3M to JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA - FOR OVERSEAS TARGETED — caring/jewish life/responding to crises (see part iv suppl info)
New England Rural Health AssociationBarre, VTCharity · may take applications
80 matching grants · $4.7M · through 2024Largest: $198,445 to FRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS — activities to support state, tribal, local and territorial (stlt) health department response to public health and healthcare crises
Largest: $153,002 to ARBOL CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS ECUADOR — to provide support for people in hardship and in times of crises
Largest: $1.4M to GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC — to help ensure sustainability of global grassroots organizations and movements as they recover from the pandemic and challenge the root causes of environmental and social crises
Largest: $955,589 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — 78973 creating a health information research consortium to support a more effective and more equitable response to public health crises
Largest: $478,000 to CENTRE POUR LA RECHERCHE ECONOMIQUE ET SES APPLICATIONS — in support of an effort to research ways to reform the sovereign debt restructuring system to help prevent and resolve debt crises in developing countries
National Foundation for the Centers forAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2023Largest: $3.7M to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ON BEHALF OF ITS LOS ANGELES C — stigma monitoring and response system for public health crises
Largest: $675,128 to UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — to care for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises close to home and far away
Largest: $250,000 to THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — to support the penn development research initiative (devlab) in its work monitoring and forecasting threats to civic space and political crises and providing advanced warning of th…
Center for Disaster PhilanthropyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to VIBRANT EMOTIONAL HEALTH — through funding primarily from the cdp disaster recovery fund, vibrant emotional health will continue to support and care for those in the acute as well as longer-term recovery pha…
Largest: $20,000 to WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN — to help support provision of meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2022Largest: $254,500 to Care — support for food, shelter, and medical care in countries impacted by food crises (somalia, kenya, ethiopia),political crisis (haiti), and refugee crises, general operating support,…
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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 →