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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 “deans”
Where the money went
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $9.9M · through 2022Largest: $6.1M to Northwestern University — general operating support, support of woman's board of northwestern university, minds matter benefit event (no tickets or tangible benefits), kellogg school of management annual fu…
Largest: $34,653 to Florida State University — scholarships for bailey browning (1,947), cashira chery (5,000), dean rooney (5,992), farah dieujuste (4,529), geslande belus (2,549), jackson destine (5,500), karina paz salazar (…
Largest: $24,556 to Dean J — educational scholarship
Largest: $210,666 to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — in support of the justice-moore family dean's faculty fellowship.
Dean & Barbara WhiteMerrillville, IN
7 matching grants · $33.4M · through 2024Largest: $10.9M to PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — dean v white real estate finance program, mitch daniels school of business, wls head of hospitality & tourism management endowment
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2023Largest: $170,000 to THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA — advised - for general operating support. advised - for the dean's fund. advised - for the dean's discretionary fund at grace cathedral. advised - for general operating support and …
Largest: $10,000 to CLARK A DEAN — scholarship recipient
Largest: $50,000 to UNR Foundation — underwrite dean's future scholars executive director salary
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $202,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — to support the dean's fund for innovation in education
Dean McGee Eye Institute FoundationOklahoma City, OKCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $23.4M · through 2024Largest: $13.6M to DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE — general operating support
Largest: $332,000 to Dean McGee Eye Institute — medical research
Largest: $11,429 to Remus Connor Dean — individual scholarship
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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 →