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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 “drilling”
Where the money went
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2023Largest: $76,376 to ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSI — multiple grants to provide additional support for stand la work and ongoing popular education and advocacy around the phase out of oil and gas drilling in los angeles; to support o…
Largest: $19,600 to Ebowa Investment Limited — well drilling
Largest: $10,000 to GO DRILL INTERNATIONAL INC — drilling water wells for neglected and impoverished peoples in africa
United Way of York CountyYork, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $852,705 · through 2024Largest: $244,250 to YWCA-YORK — community education, early child care, domestic violence shelter, quantum opportunities program, school age child care, temple guard drill team, victim assistance center counseling…
Woman'S Missionary Union Auxiliary To Southern Baptist ConventionBirmingham, ALCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $108,315 · through 2024Largest: $57,045 to First Baptist Church Trussville AL — partial funding for drilling two wells in south sudan
Lake Travis Cavalette Booster ClubAustin, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $594,147 · through 2024Largest: $157,251 to LAKE TRAVIS CAVALETTE DRILL TEAM — cavalette support
United Way of Central IowaDes Moines, IACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $522,263 · through 2024Largest: $431,290 to LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA — isiserettes drill & drum corps
Largest: $55,000 to Advocates for the West — restricted to their work on rolling back oil drilling on public lands.
Largest: $102,716 to ALMA — support orphanage, build churches and provide assistance to orphans, widows and evangelists. drill water wells. provide medical support, bicycles, sewing machines and college tuiti…
Largest: $100,000 to THE HIGH STEPPERS DRILL TEAMINC — general operating
Largest: $20,000 to HIGHSTEPPERS DRILL TEAM INC — general & unrestricted
Concordia Lutheran MinistriesfoundationCabot, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $63,500 · through 2024Largest: $21,500 to Lutheran Heritage Foundation — to be used to drill a water well in africa for those without access to fresh, clean water.
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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 →