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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 “database”
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CenterlinkFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $416,229 · through 2024Largest: $49,902 to CENTER ON HALSTED — engage in outreach, education and awareness activities to explain and promote the national institutes of health all of us research program inviting people across the u.s. to help b…
Largest: $350,000 to PEKING UNIVERSITY — for the institute of new structural economics' research and policy dialogues fostering international cooperation on public development finance and the un sustainable development go…
Largest: $19,918 to AMERICAN ASSN FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCI — 78248 developing the sea change biomedicine landscaping database for studying the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of u.s. medical schools
Ohio Council of Information and ReferralCleveland, OHCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $243,669 · through 2024Largest: $39,578 to UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT & MEDINA — to provide assistance to 2-1-1 providers participating in the resource database expansion
Michigan Public Health InstituteOkemos, MICharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $518,059 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY PERINATAL COOPERATIVE — expansion of federal cdr program & database participation
Largest: $1.0M to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support the development of a database of bibliographic information about african american and black diasporic authors and a network of scholars researching african american lite…
Largest: $2.3M to CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA FUNDACIO PRIVADA — in support of creating standardized approaches for aquatic symbiosis cell atlases and a cell atlas database for the scientific community.
Association of Maternal and Child HealthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $113,043 · through 2023Largest: $18,748 to FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC — state title v mch leadership subgrantee to improve, replicate, or adapt emerging, promising, and best practices from the innovation hub database.
Largest: $126,593 to BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC — to analyze the current state of reproducibility of large healthcare database studies.
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
5 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $802,314 to UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — explore cultural evol of rel employing a large-scale, quant-qual historical database
Largest: $302,169 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — to build americas most comprehensive database of local news outlets, one that can be a diagnostic tool for the current health of the industry and pinpoint areas at risk of becoming…
Life Time FoundationChanhassen, MNCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $224,335 · through 2024Largest: $90,959 to ELIASSEN GROUP — children's nutrition - clean label database
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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 →