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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 “destroyed”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,000 to Destroyer Escort Historical Museum — general operations
Largest: $58,190 to Powerhouse Ministries — support the women and childrens transformation center. they strive to break the cycle of life-destroying forces and choices. the children of ptc benefit from excellent care, counse…
Largest: $50,000 to CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — for production of 'water for life', a documentary film that follows activists in central & south america in their fight to stop multinational corporations from polluting rivers and…
Largest: $10,000 to DESTROYER ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM THE — interior restoration of the forward compartments of uss slater
Largest: $15,000 to US SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — protection of the american heritage of hunting and fishing against the aggressive and well financed efforts to curtail or destroy it by animal rights group
Largest: $10,000 to Hoosic Rising — purchase and plant trees destroyed in violent weather condition
Largest: $4,000 to PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION — to provide companionship to senior individuals through pet ownership, while saving the lives of companion animals in shelters; animals which might otherwise be destroyed due to lac…
Largest: $15,000 to FRANCISCAN MISSION ASSOCIATES — to help support the missions programs of rebuilding homes destroyed by natural disasters, building chapels and schools, food programs, soup kitchens, orphanages, etc
Largest: $50,000 to LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY — through theatre, which invites, even demands, interaction with its audience, our goal is to fire the imagination with love, to celebrate the human capacity to taste and smell, weep…
Center for Disaster PhilanthropyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $290,000 · through 2024Largest: $215,000 to MIYAMOTO GLOBAL DISASTER RELIEF — miyamoto global disaster relief will receive a $215,000 grant from cdp to repair 15 family compounds damaged or destroyed by the june 2022 earthquake in afghanistan in a 3-month pe…
Largest: $33,000 to Wes Turnbaugh — grant for family whose house was destroyed by natural disaster.
Largest: $60,000 to CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — to help replace the rehabilitation enclosures destroyed by the ian hurricane and to help with food for the wildlife
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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 →