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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 “cybersecurity”
Where the money went
Largest: $600,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — for the alperovitch institute for cybersecurity studies
Norwich UniversityNorthfield, VTCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $16.5M · through 2024Largest: $4.5M to VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — for software tools to support the service's plans for command and control of the information environment; to create and manage a collaborative cybersecurity educational program wit…
Largest: $500,000 to CYBERPEACE INSTITUTE — to enhance the cyberpeace institutes ai-driven cybersecurity initiatives
Largest: $250,000 to THE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY ALLIANCE — to raise public awareness about cybersecurity, focus of data care
Largest: $265,000 to ZKML LLC — study how ai agents perform on cybersecurity tasks
Cyber Center of Excellence AssociationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $392,953 · through 2025Largest: $75,000 to CSUSM CORPORATION — cybersecurity programs and tools empower individuals, organizations, public institutions, and small businesses to safeguard themselves against cyberattacks and act proactively in t…
Largest: $100,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to support a nonpartisan policy translation fellowship at the center for informed democracy and social-cybersecurity at carnegie mellon university.
Largest: $75,000 to WOMEN WHO CODE INC — technical track communities support and development of cybersecurity track
Largest: $150,000 to Center for Democracy and Technology — program support to research and develop best practices for election cybersecurity
Largest: $100,000 to PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND — core support for trestle education fund to provide no-cost or low-cost cybersecurity services to grassroots nonprofits, identify critical cybersecurity issues in services used by n…
Largest: $60,000 to MID ATLANTIC GIGABIT INNOVATION COLLABORATORY INC — magic cybersecurity program support & the westminster aric project and aric improvement project
Largest: $140,000 to MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — tfm cybersecurity scholarship fund for veterans
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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 →