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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 “economy”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.4M to FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — vibrant economies
Largest: $100,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — core support for the law and political economy project, a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political in…
Largest: $40,000 to FUTURE ECONOMY SCOTLAND LTD — for transforming scotland's economy to accelerate a just transition
Largest: $150,000 to Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research — to research latine women entreprenuership within the informal economy and bring resources to bear to increase success
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
56 matching grants · $18.0M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — promote greater understanding and support of efforts to improve employment, wages, income and wealth in communities of color, in the american south, through the program on race, et…
Largest: $500,000 to ACTION CENTER ON RACE AND THE ECONOMY INSTITUTE — 81708 general operating support for the action center on race and the economy institute, 2024-2025
Largest: $1.1M to RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — a collaboratory for a regenerative economy (core): molecules to neighborhoods: safer chemicals & materials for the renewable energy economy
Green Advocacy ProjectWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
53 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2021Largest: $200,000 to FOOD AND WATER ACTION — to educate voters and others on benefits of a clean energy economy
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationAllentown, PACharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $349,867 to HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES — arts, culture, creative economy
Largest: $100,000 to THE NEW SCHOOL — institute on race, power and political economy - california health: to support health and racial equity research and public engagement efforts in collaboration with community-based…
Largest: $2.5M to AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — to support global fund for a new economy to build new institutional infrastructure of the new economy field, including civil society, academia, and media that seek to build a globa…
Omidyar Network FundRedwood City, CA
25 matching grants · $8.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to Santa Fe Institute of Science — to support the emergent political economies: rules, dynamics and diversity research theme
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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 →