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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 “edcuational”
Where the money went
Largest: $20,000 to 9 Dots — computer edcuation for youth
Largest: $30,000 to Reuben H Fleet Science Center — edcuational programsupport
Largest: $15,000 to Saint Jo ISD Edcuation Foundation — scholarships & teacher grants
The Jack Miller Center for TeachingBala Cynwyd, PACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $38,021 · through 2022Largest: $13,500 to UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS — history/gov't edcuat
Avocet FoundationMinneapolis, MN
4 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND — educational organization specializing in youth leadership and experiential edcuation, change lives through challenge and discovery
Largest: $150,000 to NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL — edcuate and empower girls in grades 6-12 to become women who transform the world
Largest: $10,000 to EMPOWERMENT MS FOUNDATION — edcuation donation
Largest: $20,000 to NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — edcuational support
Largest: $200,000 to MY TURN INC- AMERICA'S YOUTH TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT — to help support the programs foucs on economically, socially and edcuationally disadvantaged youth in poorer neighborhoods/coummunities. to help them futher education and obtain jo…
Largest: $30,000 to ESCUELA DE VICTORIA — support children's edcuational programs
Tombigbee Resource Conservation andTuscaloosa, ALCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $25,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to Tuscaloosa County School System — edcuation funds
Largest: $3,200 to MARCUS RASCO — edcuational scholarship
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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 →