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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 “distressed”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to THE SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — to aid and advance the welfare, development and education of indigent, distressed or underprivileged children.
Largest: $16,000 to MARIA SASKIA HAMILTON — 2022 artists and writers fund: to aid professional artists, writers and composers who find themselves in financial distress.
Largest: $20,500 to LIFT FOR LIFE — providing educational assistance and opportunities to poor, or distressed, or underprivileged, or indigent and or needy persons.
Security Mutual Life FoundationBinghamton, NYCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $955,642 · through 2024Largest: $108,096 to UHS FOUNDATION — funding distressed cancer families
Pitcairn-Crabbe FoundationJohnstown, PACharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $519,546 · through 2024Largest: $32,500 to GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — distress relief
Largest: $1,375 to CHELSEA ROY — medical emergency, distress relief
US Chamber of Commerce FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $500,000 · through 2022Largest: $25,000 to PETIT BEAU-TY & GROOMING COMPANY — to aid a struggling small business in an economically distressed community.
Largest: $3.2M to GRANT TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF A MINOR — individual relief to a needy or distressed individual which is not for travel, study, or other similar purposes.
Largest: $179,000 to CONTINUUM CARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION — assistance for the needy and distressed
Largest: $8,896 to NICHOLAS JACOBS — relief of economic distress, medical bills, rent
Largest: $25,000 to WARRIOR MOMS — this grant will support warrior moms to provide entrepreneurial education training. this project will provide small business education services to distressed entrepreneurs, focusin…
Largest: $104,795 to MAHASHAKTI SEVA KENDRA — for scholarships for rural youth to collaborate with civil society organizations to produce high-quality documentary films about farmer distress in order to improve policies and ra…
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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 →