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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 “demands”
Where the money went
Alameda County Community Food BankOakland, CACharity · may take applications
116 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK — supplement food and equipment to agencies to help meet demands of community & prevent hunger
Largest: $1.9M to Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation — to support sustainability in 10 focus fisheries, build sustainable seafood demand, rebuild depleted fish stocks, and address social issues.
Largest: $710,000 to UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - AFRICA — for a project to scale evidence generation and policy outreach through demand-driven research
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $106,233 to Tree Free Heat LLC — tree free fire manufactures and sells all-natural portable campfires that are easy-to-use, scentless, and made for good times. over the course of 2022, demand for our portable camp…
Largest: $500,000 to Northcountry Cooperative Foundation — for general operating support, and for equity capital for ncf's loan fund, and to build organizational capacity to access and absorb state resources to better meet demand
Triumph Gulf CoastTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $12.7M · through 2024Largest: $9.2M to PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE — this grant will assist in helping meet the unmet job demands of local and regional employers by increasing the capacity of pensacola state college's commercial vheicle driving prog…
Largest: $220,000 to RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — in support of continued operation of the "substrate-on-demand" program, which accelerates discovery by providing researchers in the quantum materials community with custom-designed…
Largest: $150,000 to AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIEN — to generate and disseminate knowledge about china tailored to the demand from the global south through joint research, academic visits and convenings
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
11 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — enable the organization to achieve its mission of providing nonpartisan, evidence-based research, policy analysis and innovative programs that empower an informed public to demand …
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
8 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to THE NISKANEN CENTER INC — to develop supply and demand side market-oriented research related to housing development and its effect on homelessness
Largest: $856,932 to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — 82478 coordinating a multipartner initiative to increase the demand for climate-specific interventions to advance health equity in disinvested communities
Largest: $1.3M to PATH — in support of accelerating the deployment and scale of digital tools that support in-country efforts to drive hyper-local demand for covid-19 vaccination awareness, acceptance and …
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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 →