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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 “dietary”
Where the money went
Largest: $13,852 to FEEDING AMERICA OF WEST MICHIGAN — to provide food to support the dietary health of those in the community most in need in w. michigan.
Largest: $1.2M to RAMBAM HEALTH CORPORATION — microbial and dietary effects on immune composition and function in patients with crohn's
Largest: $187,125 to STANFORD U — 81356 developing and evaluating a marketing campaign to increase school-meal participation to improve children's dietary quality and reduce food insecurity
Largest: $150,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — optimizing dietary protein derived isobutyrate to suppress inflammation
Largest: $165,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — pharmacologic and dietary approaches for targeting metabolism in autoimmune disease
Vitamix FoundationOlmsted Twp, OH
3 matching grants · $75,023 · through 2024Largest: $42,326 to TULANE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FUND — exam preconception dietary patterns
Largest: $10,000 to FOOD FOR THOUGHT — to help grow its activities. food for thought brings a program of garden based learning, agricultural literacy and dietary awareness into the public schools in the ojai area.
Largest: $50,000 to SWITCH FOR GOOD — to change people's dietary attitudes and behaviors.
Largest: $50,000 to SUGAR VALLEY LODGE — dietary costs for residents
Largest: $5,000 to THE MCDOUGALL RESEARCH EDUCATION FN — research dietary treatment of disease
Wells Family FoundationBrooklyn Park, MN
2 matching grants · $25,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to Alliance for Eating Disorder — dietary education
Prairie Meadows Race Track and CasinoAltoona, IACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $25,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to ANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC — veterinary care, rehabilitation, & specialty dietary needs to save dogs & cats with special needs
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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 →