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12 funders with a record of paying for “empathy”
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Woodland Park Zoological SocietySeattle, WACharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2024Largest: $317,318 to IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — advancing empathy grants
Largest: $2.9M to WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — advancing empathy for wildlife
The Community Foundation of MiddleNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $64,307 · through 2024Largest: $16,255 to NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE — nashville children's theatre provides transformational theatrical experiences for children, fostering empathy and personal discovery while reflecting the diversity of our evolving …
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $355,000 · through 2024Largest: $120,000 to ROOTS OF EMPATHY USA — to support the seattle program.
Largest: $50,000 to NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — the empathy project
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
5 matching grants · $753,886 · through 2022Largest: $270,631 to UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — support equitable teacher child interactions in child care classrooms by using the assessing classroom sociocultural equity scale and incubating an innovative approach to fostering…
Tiny Blue DotWest Hollywood, CA
3 matching grants · $791,126 · through 2023Largest: $641,127 to INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES — support the iacs research into novel methods for achieving deep meditation and self-transcendence to understand and gain agency over our mental states and responses. by exploring a…
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $196,050 · through 2024Largest: $118,300 to AGAPE Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy — community development
Saint Thomas West HospitalSt Louis, MOCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $91,676 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to ASSOCIATION for GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT & EMPATHY (AGAPE) — support of no-cost mental health counseling
Largest: $100,000 to LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — to advance theatre as an art form, telling stories that inspire empathy and create a dialouge toward a more just future.
Largest: $62,500 to DREAMORG — empathy network - provide issue education to state and federal policymakers with the goal of bringing about powerful changes to the justice system.
Largest: $61,929 to HEARD — creating a space of belonging, healing, resources, cultural/linguistic understanding, and empathy for deaf/disabled formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones who have been …
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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 →