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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 “dead”
Where the money went
Largest: $30,000 to RED LINE PRODUCTIONS — professional performance grant: seven deadly sins/mahagonny songspeil
Largest: $100,000 to UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — application to research programs "project salmon resilience: the impact of climate change and fisheries on sockeye salmon's genetic diversity and population resilience and "gasping…
Largest: $15,000 to ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL — to further the lifesaving mission of st. jude children's research hospital for kids battling childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. to provide treatment, travel, housing, and …
Largest: $15,000 to ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL — for the health and welfare of children with cancer and other deadly diseases.
Largest: $10,000 to Doctors Without Borders — to deliver independent medical care to victims of armed conflict, bring relief in the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters, and fight deadly epidemics in more than 70 countri…
Largest: $201,000 to ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — support programs that help children battle cancer and other deadly diseases
Largest: $11,212 to KINSEY BRETT STEWART — (trans) gendering the dead: determining and utilizing sex and gender in medicolegal death investigation
Largest: $1,000 to St Jude Childrens Research Hospital — support research of deadly diseases.
Largest: $45,000 to Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation — general operations
Largest: $2,000 to ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL — general contribution made to st jude's children hospital to assist the organization achieve thier mission of hepling children with cancer and other deadly diseases-
Largest: $5,000 to ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL — support for childrenbattling cancerand other deadly diseases
Largest: $50,000 to INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP — preventing & resolving deadly confli
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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 →