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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 “detectors”
Where the money went
Largest: $350,000 to The Board of Trustees - Leland Stanford Jr Univ — in support of research to produce reflective optical coatings with low thermal noise, for use in gravitational wave detectors.
California Association for Research inKamuela, HICharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2023Largest: $2.1M to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — award of $81,041 for the upgrade of the nirc-2 detector; award of $213,284 for the upgrade of the deimos detector; sub-award of $245,572 under the heising-simons foundation funded …
Largest: $555,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — for research and development on flare, a noble liquid detector at the large hadron collider
Largest: $86,750 to AMERICAN RED CROSS — smoke detectors
Largest: $1,017 to Fire Marshal's Office Town of Wolcott — to fund the purchase of (25) co detectors and (50) smoke detectors.
Largest: $2,000 to CITY OF HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT — msa altair 5x gas detector
Largest: $12,500 to OTTAWA RESIDENTIAL SERVICES — purchase of smoke detectors
Largest: $100,000 to Williams College — a study of single electron backgrounds in a low-threshold argon detector
Largest: $2.2M to CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES — a photon counting detector-ct device for soroka medical center
Largest: $4,823 to RISE CHARTER SCHOOL — vape detectors
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
1 matching grant · $1.0M · through 2023Largest: $1.0M to UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER — to develop a new frequency comb enabled detector for infrared phased-array astronomy.
Largest: $550,000 to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — electron energy loss spectrometer detector for the transmission electron microscope in camcor
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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 →