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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 “differences”
Where the money went
OutrideMorgan Hill, CA
331 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2024Largest: $135,784 to Silver Stallion — to improve lives of kids with learning differences.
Largest: $2.0M to UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE — the autism prenatal sex differences (apex) program
Largest: $392,174 to RAND CORPORATION — to conduct a quasi-experimental study to estimate the impact of small area fair market rents (safmrs), a place-based policy that give families more rental support if they reside in…
Largest: $250,000 to HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — 80066 studying consumer experiences in health insurance and how coverage characteristics affect affordability and usability for different populations
New Schools FundOakland, CACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $4.6M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to EDUCATION REIMAGINED — learning differences
Largest: $250,000 to AFL-CIO WORKING FOR AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — core support to afl-cio technology institute, to launch its work on convening, research, and strategy development around technologies impacting work and working people in different…
Largest: $295,812 to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — to study the relationship between different forms of virtual presence on group entitativity in scientific collaborations
Hunter Houle Memorial FoundationForest Lake, MNCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $225,450 · through 2024Largest: $40,000 to SnoCross Mobile Medical Team Inc — making a difference campaign
Largest: $200,000 to GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — support to study how financial aid policies may affect post-college opportunities to become entrepreneurs, and how resulting entrepreneurial activity may differ across communities …
Largest: $350,000 to DEVELOPING KINGDOMS IN DIFFERENT STAGES — the evolution of developing kids
Largest: $393,107 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — in support of investigations of electronic states at interfaces between different topological phases using optical methods.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
10 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2023Largest: $260,000 to UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — build the capacity for learning and understanding of different models in racial healing through support of racial healing practitioners and healers program participants as scholars…
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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 →