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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 “empire”
Where the money went
Largest: $20,000 to INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — mapping black california - advancing health equity through research: to support research that advances health and racial equity and civic participation of black communities in the …
Weingart FoundationLos Angeles, CA
36 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — support for the black equity initiative of the inland empire (bei-ie)
Largest: $9.3M to Inland Empire Community Foundation — for community economic development
Largest: $20,000 to INLAND EMPIRE FUNDERS ALLIANCE — for project support for inland empire funders alliance for efforts to advance equity and enhance infrastructure in the nonprofit sector in the inland empire.
Largest: $120,000 to Mountain Empire Community College Foundation — matching funds for the creation of the wise co. endowed scholarship, buccaneer appalachia high school alumni scholarships, and east stone gap tiger scholarships
Largest: $524,768 to SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — to assess experimentally how researcher degrees of freedom influence and potentially distort the publication, interpretation, and reliability of empirical literature
Inland Empire Community FoundationRiverside, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $3.7M · through 2024Largest: $120,500 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Empire — expanding academic and socio-emotional learning through afterschool; expanding equity-focused volunteerism in the inland empire through one-to-one mentoring; fund a future program
Largest: $500,000 to INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — for the black equity initiative of the inland empire.
Largest: $43,200 to 100 BLACK MEN OF THE INLAND EMPIRE — program support
Largest: $50,000 to INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO — program/operating support
Foundation for California CommunitySacramento, CACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $224,400 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to HIGH EXPECTATION DEVELOPMENT CORPS — irvine inland empire apprentice grants
Largest: $281,363 to RAND CORPORATION — to continue to support the national collaborative on gun violence research, a national, coordinated effort aimed at building the empirical basis for policy decisions to address gun…
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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 →

