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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 “drive”
Where the money went
Largest: $167,000 to Orchard Place — for general support or for a capital fund drive of the respective organization
Arkansas Community FoundationLittle Rock, ARCharity · may take applications
189 matching grants · $8.0M · through 2024Largest: $1.8M to ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND - 2102 RIVERFRONT DRIVE SUITE 102 L — to provide general operating support to the arkansas single parent scholarship fund
Largest: $52,500 to Boy Scouts of America — annual fund drive and capital fund drive
Largest: $29,350 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — annual drives
Largest: $508,847 to FRAMEWORKS INST — 78891 continuing research under the culture change project to track mindset shifts and examine opportunities such shifts present for driving social change
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteChevy Chase, MDCharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $30.4M · through 2024Largest: $2.5M to Univ of Montana — driving change learn. comm.
Largest: $350,000 to CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — core support for the brigade network program to drive public interest technology talent into the public sector and core support for the community fellowship that supports fellows w…
Largest: $220,000 to SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN — 2023 support from drive out hunger
Largest: $50.0M to Charter School Growth Fund — launching the dell catalyst fund to drive quality charter school growth
Largest: $100,600 to MESIVTA ATERES YAAKOV — contributions given in response to public fundraising drives for continuation of organized religious activities and misc recognized charity functions
Largest: $250,000 to Georgetown University — to support futureed, an independent think tank at georgetown university's mccourt school of public policy, to research, write, and publish a series of essays that will examine how …
Largest: $3.5M to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, transl…
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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 →