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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 “detail”
Where the money went
Largest: $4,000 to LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK — see part ix-a for detail
CureboundSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $7.1M · through 2024Largest: $4.7M to THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC SAN DIEGO — see detail in part ivcancer research across five research pillars; including prevention and diagnostic tools, novel approaches and new therapeutic platforms, immunotherapies and pe…
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $808,901 to FORD FOUNDATION — "we are ready to release/transfer the total balance of decolonizing wealth's grant from ford (frd047 -- internal details attached) of $808,901.40 back to ford at the following wire…
Largest: $200,000 to DETAIL ATTACHED — seminole state scholarships
Association of InterventionalBirmingham, MICharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $380,000 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to Augusta University — to provide financial support to fellowships that meet the grant's criteria and have a specific, detailed description of what the grant funds would be used towards and how the use w…
The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher CenterNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $33.0M · through 2024Largest: $11.0M to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — to fund alzheimer's disease research. see part iv for details.
Largest: $1.5M to Detail available upon request — contributions
Christian Fidelity FoundationFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $440,377 · through 2024Largest: $149,242 to General Council of the Assemb — see attached for details
Largest: $117,652 to G39 — the funds are to be used to develop and curate a series of rolling two-year programmes based on the specific needs of five selected artists per cohort (twenty artists in total) wit…
Largest: $171.5M to Donation of Inventories — foundation provides prescription drugs at no cost to qualifying individuals under a patient assistance program (pap). expense include drugs as well as a service to administer the p…
Largest: $246,271 to UOM - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI — the donation is in an account at uom. the foundation is currently in negotiations on the project and details for what the funds will be used for. once finalized, a new grant agreem…
Largest: $671,447 to CONTRIBUTIONS OF 671447 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — general funds
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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 →