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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 “curator”
Where the money went
Largest: $500,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — core support for new latinx initiative to advance latinx art and culture scholarship and curation
Largest: $100,000 to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — support to study place-based challenges faced by "everyday" black and hispanic entrepreneurs in kansas city, missouri. 202105-10538
Largest: $75,000 to QUEENS MUSEUM — to support production and programs at the queens museum of the exhibition lyle ashton harris: our first and last love at the queens museum, co-curated by caitlin julia rubin, assoc…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
19 matching grants · $9.3M · through 2024Largest: $2.5M to The J Paul Getty Trust — in support of the curation and digitization of the johnson publishing company archive for the benefit of the public and for scholarly and educational uses
Sage BionetworksSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $251,814 to PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — phase 1 and 2: recover mobile health platform/mobile health repositories working group: develop process for mhp to collect pasc related mobile health data from participants and sha…
Largest: $750,000 to NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART — to support a curator position and collection management activities
Largest: $135,000 to HARVARD U — 80635 supporting the journalist's resource to provide curated research for nonpartisan reporting on public policy and other complex topics
Largest: $600,000 to Bellwether Education Partners Inc — to launch a new initiative that will commission and curate research from the nation's leading school finance experts.
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $782,299 · through 2024Largest: $447,299 to VANGUARD DIRECT INC — education -the community libraries initiative is a key component of uwnycs broader latinidad in schools initiative. each library includes a curated collection that highlights latin…
Largest: $117,652 to G39 — the funds are to be used to develop and curate a series of rolling two-year programmes based on the specific needs of five selected artists per cohort (twenty artists in total) wit…
Largest: $350,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — to support the future of rights and governance program to curate a collaborative action-research process that addresses the current challenges of global governance
United Way of Greater Milwaukee &Milwaukee, WICharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $551,491 to CURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC — children's services,donor designations
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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 →