Funding search

Find who already funds work like yours.

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.

1 funder with a record of paying for “dollarsfordoers”

Where the money went

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation → Homeward Animal Shelter: $3K across 2 grants, latest 2025Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation → Hope Blooms: $3K across 2 grants, latest 2025Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation → Great Plains Food Bank: $3K across 2 grants, latest 2025Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation → Ronald Mcdonald House Fargo: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2024Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation → 4 Luv of Dog Rescue: $1K across 1 grant, latest 2024Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation: $12K on this topic. Open the funder.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nor…$12KHomeward Animal Shelter: received $3K on this topicHomeward Animal Shelter$3KHope Blooms: received $3K on this topicHope Blooms$3KGreat Plains Food Bank: received $3K on this topicGreat Plains Food Bank$3KRonald Mcdonald House Fargo: received $2K on this topicRonald Mcdonald House Fargo$2K4 Luv of Dog Rescue: received $1K on this topic4 Luv of Dog Rescue$1K
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 20192025. 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 →