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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 “emergencysupplementalfood”

Where the money went

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Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust → Illinois Valley Food Pantry: $19K across 4 grants, latest 2025Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust → Streatorland Community Food Pantry: $18K across 3 grants, latest 2025Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust → Streatorland Comm Food Pantry: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2022Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust → Mendota Area Christian Food Pantry: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2022Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust: $43K on this topic. Open the funder.Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Cha…$43KIllinois Valley Food Pantry: received $19K on this topicIllinois Valley Food Pantry$19KStreatorland Community Food Pantry: received $18K on this topicStreatorland Community Food Pan…$18KStreatorland Comm Food Pantry: received $5K on this topicStreatorland Comm Food Pantry$5KMendota Area Christian Food Pantry: received $2K on this topicMendota Area Christian Food Pan…$2K
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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 →