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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 “enabled”
Where the money went
Largest: $497,500 to STONE SOUP LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — enable donee to continue exempt function
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
275 matching grants · $89.2M · through 2023Largest: $490,000 to PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC — enable the organization to achieve its mission of enabling human development in haiti's central plateau by registering in haiti, executing its strategic plan and restructuring a vo…
Largest: $2.6M to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — to support continued development of a revolutionary accelerator design to expand the exploration of particle physics, enable new table-top physics, open up attosecond science and e…
Largest: $54,000 to JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS — enable donee to continue exempt function
Largest: $180,000 to DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART — contribution to the general operating fund to enable them to fulfill their charitable purpose.
Largest: $75,000 to BOSTON LATIN SCH ASSOCIATION — to enable the donees to carry-out their tax exempt purposes.to enable the donees to carry-out their tax exempt purposes.to enable the donees to carry-out their tax exempt purposes.…
Largest: $75,000 to THE MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE-BELIEVE CAMPAIGN — to enable the donees to carry-out their tax exempt purposes.
Largest: $30,000 to CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL — enable donee's exempt function
Largest: $200,000 to TREES WATER AND PEOPLE — core support to research, map and connect ongoing economic alternatives in central and north america and the caribbean, and promote learning and exchange channels with emphasis on …
Largest: $206,400 to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE — to enable the institution to continue their public charitable role.
Largest: $150,000 to VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — to enable the alliance of nurses for healthy environments to train additional nurse fellows and expand community-based partnerships and projects at the intersection of climate chan…
Largest: $150,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support the yale law school - information society project's majority world initiative to create and support an academic community of practice of global south scholars to enable …
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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 →

