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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 “decide”
Where the money went
Largest: $10,000 to Balinese Children's Education Found — contributions are made for educational purposes as these organizations decide
Largest: $450,000 to TRAILHEAD INST — 80254 strengthening the light collective's organizational infrastructure to support patients in deciding how their health information is shared or used
Largest: $2.5M to POWER TO DECIDE — program support
Largest: $900,000 to POWER TO DECIDE — from roadmap to reality: advancing reproductive well-being for all
Largest: $750,000 to POWER TO DECIDE — for general operating support
Largest: $20,000 to GIVEWELL AKA CLEAR FUND — givewell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give.
Largest: $350,000 to Moneythink — decided api development & implementation
Blue Meridian PartnersNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2023Largest: $4.0M to POWER TO DECIDE — to support strategic planning
Largest: $664,816 to UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — managing students' contributions to mathematical work in whole class discussions in high school: how do teachers decide what to do?
Baltimore Community FoundationBaltimore, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $35,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to POWER TO DECIDE — general support and various projects
Largest: $15,000 to Hartford Decide Inc — operating support for hartford decide to expand community engagement
Largest: $224,234 to UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN — to advance our understanding of the genetic circuit deciding between replication and dormancy in bacteriophage lambda, with the ultimate goal of improving our ability to predict th…
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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 →