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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 “documentation”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to DOCUMENTED LTD — core support for documented's work on uncovering and publicizing wage theft practices targeting immigrant workers
Largest: $800,000 to SCHOLARS AT RISK INC — to continue support for research and communications capacity, including for free to think, an annual report that documents attacks on academic freedom
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
35 matching grants · $6.8M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to Urban Institute — to produce a series of case studies documenting the experience of jurisdictions participating in the safety and justice challenge during its first five years
Largest: $152,302 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — to support grantee's continued efforts to i) create an electronic archive of sugar documents and ii) develop an accompanying research agenda that will utilize the food industry doc…
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $52,934 to WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grants for projects that encompass exhibit development, preservation and digitization of historical resources, historic structure documentation, and research initiatives sup…
Largest: $75,000 to ASOCIACION COMUNICANDO Y CAPACITANDO A MUJERES TRANS CON VIH EN EL SALVADOR — support for the documentation of violence and discrimination against lgbt people in detention centers in el salvador, mexico, guatemala, and honduras, as well as the documentation …
Largest: $100,000 to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF — to improve the human rights research and advocacy of the security force monitor by developing new tools to document and analyze security force abuses in conflict zones and hold per…
Largest: $164,201 to HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES — 82211 bolstering the hummingbird indigenous family services' research capacity to document its programs' impact on birth justice in western washington state
Largest: $476,931 to The Regents of the University of California at Irvine — to conduct a study documenting the long-term effects of participating in out-of-school arts education programs serving young people from marginalized communities.
Largest: $9,700 to JUDI'S PLACE FOR KIDS INC — improve its methods of sharing, storing, and retrieving client data in order to improve client services and collaboration with partner agencies. jpfk will use funds to contract wit…
Largest: $45,000 to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — to support the study of the local impact of opening signal akron, a new nonprofit newsroom and documenters program.
Largest: $40,000 to COMMUNITY PARTNERS — social justice research partnership - documenting health equity efforts: to evaluate, document and uplift coalition efforts to build power among youth leaders and improve the healt…
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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 →