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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 “equations”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS — from painleve equations and extremal polynomials to isoharmonic deformations, loewner equations and schramm-loewner evolution
Brooklyn Arts CouncilBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $294,564 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to GRAND PISTACHIO ARTS CORPORATION — brooklyn arts fund, creative equations fund, local arts support
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
6 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $750,000 to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc — in support of the equation campaign
Largest: $240,000 to COUNCIL OF MEDICAL SPECIALTY SOCIETIES — to support a doris duke racial equity in clinical equations civic science fellow in a project to engage medical societies, funders, publishers, and others to bring rigor to the cli…
Largest: $5.0M to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — to support the equation campaign
Largest: $540,000 to Equation Collaborative Corp — funds to identify and secure food sources to share with families, and engage non-profits in support of community
Largest: $325,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — for its project, the equation campaign
Largest: $200,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — to support the grantee's fiscally sponsored program, equation campaign, to protect the human and civil rights of climate activists and environmental defenders
Largest: $250,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — equation campaign
The San Diego FoundationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $126,180 · through 2022Largest: $16,180 to EQUATION COLLABORATIVE — for the +box local greens pilot project
Largest: $275,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — equation campaign
Largest: $6,000 to UTAH FOOD BANK — support utah food bank, which has operated under various names but has always remained true to our mission of fighting hunger statewide. 410,000 utahns, which equates to 1 in 8 ind…
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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 →