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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 “discrimination”
Where the money went
Largest: $500,003 to LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — to support the international coalition of people of african descent (icpad) as a platform for participation of afro-descendant organizations for the un decade for people of african…
Northland FoundationDuluth, MNCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $985,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to BEAU WALSH DESIGN LLC — grants to businesses in communities that have been adversely affected by structural racial discrimination, civil unrest, lack of access to capital, a loss of population or an aging…
Largest: $166,643 to GEORGETOWN U — 80130 supporting the commission on racism, structural discrimination, and global health in its research and antiracist strategies to achieve health equity
Largest: $300,000 to INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND — support for increase safety, reduce discrimination, and strengthen lgbti communities in burundi, kenya, rwanda, tanzania, and uganda.
Largest: $300,000 to UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS — ?for the ?second global forum against racism and discrimination to hold thematic panels and other events addressing racism and discrimination through an intersectional approach in …
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
11 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2022Largest: $1.2M to NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred an…
Largest: $30,000 to NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP — education for non discrimination
Largest: $600,000 to NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE — to support the shoulder to shoulder campaign, a national multifaith campaign committed to addressing the problem of anti-muslim discrimination and violence in the united states
Largest: $42,500 to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTH — protecting free speech and addressing discrimination for community health: to support an organization addressing local community health impacts of the palestinian/israeli conflict …
Largest: $25,000 to MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT — for research and rapid response messaging to underscore the urgent need for a federal response to anti-lgbt discrimination.
Largest: $98,449 to University of California Berkeley — surveying perceptions of employment discrimination
Largest: $1.7M to ACTION AGAINST HUNGER — to save, improve and protect lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection and treatment of undernutrition, especially during and after emergency crises caused by s…
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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 →