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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 “deformities”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,400 to THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS — from painleve equations and extremal polynomials to isoharmonic deformations, loewner equations and schramm-loewner evolution
Largest: $10,000 to OPERATION SMILE — general program support - treatment of children with correctable facial deformities
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
2 matching grants · $540,270 · through 2024Largest: $300,150 to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — onix: a search for nuclear t-violation using octupole-deformed nuclei in crystals
American Orthotic and ProstheticAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $26,109 · through 2023Largest: $8,703 to BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE O&P PROGRAM — supplemental funding for assessing the long term non-cosmetic outcomes of positional cranial deformities
Largest: $30,000 to Foundation for Craniofacial Surgery — medical support for children with facial birth defects and deformities
Largest: $65,117 to ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY — utilizing 3d printing in conjunction with 3d scanning technology, alabama state university (asu) seeks to create patient-specific mobility devices integrated with customizable orth…
The Community Foundation forJacksonville, FLCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $6,302 · through 2024Largest: $3,302 to MERCY SHIPS — to be used to treat maxillofacial deformities in underserved populations of the world
Largest: $206,400 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — to perform a search for nuclear time-reversal symmetry violation using an octupole deformed nucleus (153eu) doped into a solid-state crystal (yso)
Largest: $100,000 to Harvey Mudd College — the physical principles governing high-rate and large deformation elastic recoil
Largest: $41,600 to FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS — to transform the lives of disadvantaged children & young people with physical deformities.
Largest: $1,000 to Smile Train — provides dental work for those with cleft palettes and other deformities of the mouth.
Largest: $30,000 to DR HAMID GHAEDNIA — 3-d contact scanner to measure contact force, real contact area, and deformation curvatures using frustrated total internal reflection
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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 →