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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 “death”
Where the money went
The Institute for IntergovernmentalTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
102 matching grants · $16.8M · through 2024Largest: $549,013 to RENO COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — preventing and reducing overdose deaths associated with opioids
Largest: $575,000 to Center For Death Penalty Litigation — 8th amendment project
Foundation for a Healthy KentuckyLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $807,127 · through 2024Largest: $80,220 to SOMALI COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE — preventing overdose deaths
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $162,000 to CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Prevention MichiganLansing, MICharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $91,163 to THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE COALITION — pdo grant - preventing overdose deaths in calhoun, genesee, and wayne counties
Council of State and TerritorialAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2023Largest: $384,508 to OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH — covid-19 resp deaths
Largest: $312,601 to NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — to conduct a study on the handling of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the united states and study-related concerns with medical death investigati…
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $391,540 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to GEORGIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Montana Public Health InstituteBozeman, MTCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $154,040 to ONE HEALTH — funding to oendp regional hubs to reduce opioid deaths in montana
Largest: $5,000 to DEATH PENALTY ACTION — funds for a documentary series about people impacted by the death penalty and those fighting to end it
Largest: $3,000 to TEXAS DEATH PENALTY EDUCATION RESOU — a day of film and art from texas' death row
Dravet Syndrome FoundationCherry Hill, NJCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2025Largest: $779,250 to Regents of the University of Michigan — 1. university of michigan - special project funding:understanding phenotypes and biomarkers leading to sudep in a transgenic rabbit model - $750,000. this study uses a transgenic r…
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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 →