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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 “determination”
Where the money went
Largest: $30,000 to ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN — to provide for charitable activities as determined by the recipient organization
Ndn CollectiveRapid City, SDCharity · may take applications
166 matching grants · $33.2M · through 2024Largest: $690,000 to SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — community self-determination and president's partnership fund
Largest: $171,362 to UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — to award three students a scholarship pursuant to the private foundation's individual grant-making procedures as approved under 26 usc 4945(g)(1) per irs determination letter
Largest: $730,000 to Big Shoulders Fund — as determined by beneficiary of grant
Largest: $92,180 to WJCS — for use by the donees for the purpose for which they determine
Largest: $1.2M to FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US — (1) description: 17,870 shares of costar group, inc. securities (2) book value: $1,150,864 (3) method used to determine book value: average of the high/low on the date the securiti…
Largest: $3.2M to SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — supporting indigenous communities' land stewardship, self-determination, and cultural representation
Largest: $200,000 to DEMOS A NETWK FOR IDEAS & ACTION — 80814 studying state public-banking proposals to determine whether and how they could reduce the racial wealth gap in communities of color
Largest: $1.6M to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — center for health policy research - supporting survey development: to support the development of a statewide population health survey that provides statewide, county and sub-county…
Nancy E Barry & Letitia P Rees FoundationPacific Palisades, CA
29 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2025Largest: $233,531 to PLANNED PARENTHOOD — (1) description: 514 shares of bershire hathaway class b securities (2) book value: $94,444 (3) method used to determine book value: average of the high/low on the date the securit…
Salem HealthSalem, ORCharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $130,000 to SALEM FREE CLINIC — improve social determinate of health
Largest: $200,000 to WESTOVER SCHOOL — general purpose to be determined by the grantee
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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 →