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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 “deposit”
Where the money went
Largest: $1,000 to GREEN MATTHEW — security deposit
Largest: $62,500 to CREEED — deposit to charitable bank account - excelencia scholarship awards & burnham wood
Ray FoundationFort Collins, CO
13 matching grants · $432,037 · through 2022Largest: $60,000 to LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS INC — grant for endowment fund deposit
Largest: $60,000 to DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC — grant for batting cage,
Largest: $2,500 to Rebekah Stewart Keating Stewart — deposit towards therapy services
Largest: $5,000 to DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER — to help with the cost of maintaining the playground and providing the children with updated working toys and classroom supplies
Largest: $25,000 to DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC — to fund costs of contsruction of two pickleball courts at the deposit community park together with fencing, benches and signage.
Navigate Affordable Housing PartnersBirmingham, ALCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $450,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC — housing supportive support - funds will be utilized for housing deposits, eviction prevention, utility deposits, utility cut of prevention, childcare, housing application fees and …
The Community Foundation of MiddleNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $182,300 · through 2024Largest: $122,600 to FISK UNIVERSITY — gift from class of 1974 in support of their 50th reunion in 2024. (list of class members and their contributions to be sent separately. there is one additional deposit expected aft…
Largest: $15,000 to GEORGINA RAPPAPORT — to aid accession of research materials of dr. lewis binford for archival deposit with the national anthropological archives, suitland, maryland - historical archives program access…
Largest: $918,048 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to support scientific research by dr. judy cha, including development of in situ probes for monitoring materials growth by chemical vapor deposition and of scalable fabrication pro…
Largest: $5,450 to LEONARD AIKINS — move-in deposit
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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 →