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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 “entitled”
Where the money went
Brightfocus FoundationClarksburg, MDCharity · may take applications
137 matching grants · $31.9M · through 2024Largest: $600,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — alzheimer's disease research by jinkook lee, phd, entitled: (ca2023001)
Largest: $129,292 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support a project entitled, promoting diversity, group inclusion, and equity study in medical education.
Futures Without ViolenceSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
48 matching grants · $4.7M · through 2024Largest: $724,754 to WESTED — provide service for the project entitled courageous classrooms & communities
Largest: $225,000 to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — to support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "birthing the nation: gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries"
George S and Dolores DoreSalt Lake City, UT
18 matching grants · $311,500 · through 2024Largest: $70,000 to UTAH FOUNDATION — to support the project and report entitled, "post-secondary reimagined"
Largest: $500,000 to VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY — to finance the costs to conduct the project entitled "mobile meal program".
Largest: $98,520 to ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — azib shahib, md study cover research entitled "translationally relevant swine model of lipopolysaccharide-induced septic shock to assess a perfusion centered approach for the manag…
Prevent Child Abuse AmericaChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $359,000 · through 2024Largest: $40,000 to SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK — to fund grantee's program entitled "thriving families, safer children youth, family & community partnership"
Largest: $400,000 to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — support for research project entitled, stimulating synaptic protein degradation for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Foundation for Chemistry ResearchWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $450,000 · through 2024Largest: $275,000 to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — to support the research proposed by dr. alison elder entitled analysis of airborne microplastics in outdoor environments and to support the research proposed by dr. samantha romani…
Women'S Philanthropic UnionCleveland Heights, OH
8 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2025Largest: $355,000 to FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — funding of general operations to enable organization to further its neighborhood settlement work largely centered in the carver housing project. this organization is independent of…
Largest: $16,000 to DANIJELA STOSIC PANIC — to enable you to pursue your research project entitled "reshaping women's entrepreneurship for achieving gender equality - womeneage" which will contribute to your academic career …
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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 →