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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.
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United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
251 matching grants · $32.7M · through 2024Largest: $5.9M to DRISCOLL FOODS — hunger prevention nutrition assistance program (hpnap) - hpnap helps ensure the accessibility and availability of safe, nutritious food in nycs most vulnerable communities; support…
Largest: $500,000 to Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc — to ensure the health of the great lakes and the people who depend on them by providing financial resources and consulting services to grassroots groups seeking to ensure access to …
Largest: $555,000 to NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT INC — core support to federal and state policy work that ensures that gig workers have the key labor protections that ensure security and flexibility.
Largest: $193,787 to URBAN INSTITUTE — 82295 developing guidelines for community advisory boards to ensure the production of high-quality research that affects community members' lives
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
80 matching grants · $22.8M · through 2022Largest: $497,322 to ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS — ensure equitable response and recovery from covid-19 in communities by developing a community resilience-focused public health fellowship program
Largest: $350,000 to ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY — orange county civic engagement table - advancing health equity: to support a coordinated redistricting effort consisting of robust local organizing, research, mapping and advocacy …
St Louis Community FoundationSt Louis, MOCharity · may take applications
62 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2024Largest: $85,000 to NAACP ST LOUIS COUNTY — closing the gap voter equity program, freedom fund dinner sponsorship. all benefits are declined to ensure this grant is entirely charitable., the annual freedom fund dinner as pre…
Largest: $1.0M to SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR AFRICA (SSA) — to conduct research, prepare and disseminate educational information, advocacy, and training on climate adaptation to ensure that relevant stakeholders keep justice and human right…
Largest: $500,000 to Environmental Defense Fund Inc — to ensure the sustainable management of us fisheries by incorporating climate change in management decisions, defending the magnuson stevens act and ensuring that the data used to …
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
27 matching grants · $14.2M · through 2024Largest: $800,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — to conduct research in the united states in partnership with the world health organization in order to ensure global validity of the global scale for early development
Largest: $334,583 to Coastal States Stewardship Foundation — to support the northeast regional planning body and northeast regional ocean council's implementation of the ocean plan that addresses its goals of healthy oceans and coasts, effec…
Largest: $99,200 to WESTED — to investigate californias college promise equity outcomes and ensure sustainable funding through state and private funding, as part of the copro2.0 initiative.
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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 →