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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 “eminent”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.0M to AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — trone family eminent scholar chair in neuroscience and behavior
Troy University FoundationTroy State University, ALCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $5.5M · through 2023Largest: $4.5M to TROY UNIVERSITY — eminent scholar professorships and other expenses
George Mason University FoundationFairfax, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $936,752 to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY — eminent scholars
Largest: $4.0M to GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — current operations and for a permanent endowment, directed toward the attraction and retention of eminent teacher/scholars.
Thomas Dubois Hormel FoundationFort Lauderdale, FL
4 matching grants · $100,000 · through 2025Largest: $25,000 to PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY — to support and maintain eminent symphony orchestra in new york
Largest: $600,000 to SUNDANCE INSTITUTE — to support a science and technology film program at the nation's pre-eminent independent film center that includes screenwriting fellowships, feature film prizes, science and film …
Ozarks Food HarvestSpringfield, MOCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $35,610 · through 2024Largest: $19,150 to EMINENCE PANTRY — food assistance
Largest: $25,000 to LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYHOOVER INSTITUTION — with its eminent scholars and world-renowned library and archives, the hoover institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity …
Largest: $40,000 to EMINE REZZAN KARAMAN — karaman, emine rezzan (independent scholar) "getting justice for the forcibly disappeared through judicio-politics in turkey"
The Whas Crusade for ChildrenLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $72,000 · through 2023Largest: $24,000 to EMINENCE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL — $24,000.00 for items 1 and 3 instruction (co-writer and clicker software, ipads, osmo kits, etc.) and social emotional development. no funding for item 2 - speech language therapis…
Largest: $963,000 to Georgia Research Alliance — support for a collaborative initiative to research neurodegenerative diseases and establishment of the calvin smyre gra eminent scholar chair.
Largest: $650,000 to COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — project support for the 2024 eminent artist fellowship
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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 →