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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 “equivalency”
Where the money went
Largest: $110,000 to AIRWARS — critical investigations into civilian harm - determined to be an equivalent of a us public charity
Largest: $80,000 to Yayasan Karang Widya — support inner city kids in jarkata teaching them farming skills. this organization has a current equivalency opinion as described in rev. proc. 2017-53.
Largest: $200,000 to DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTERNATIONAL (DMI) — special project (foreign equivalency determination - expenditure responsibility performed)
Largest: $642,117 to KINGS COLLEGE LONDON — an independent firm has made an equivalency determination that kings college london would qualify as a public charity or exempt operating foundation. grants to kings college suppor…
Largest: $186,000 to ifo Institute — ifo institute is a department of the university of munich the equivalent of a public charity. the grant supports research involving deepening and expanding previous research on int…
Largest: $40,000 to AFRICA CHECK — general operating grant to south african nonprofit w/ equivalancy determination
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $8.3M · through 2024Largest: $7.4M to MDRC — grant, strengthen and scale multiple measures assessment implementation grant, examining faculty decision-making in course equivalency and transfer grant, learning partner for futu…
Largest: $280,250 to JIVAN JYOT DRUG BANK — jivan-jyot drug bank is a foreign organization. an equivalency determination was obtained from a qualified tax practitioner, confirming that jivan-jyot drug bank is the equivalent …
United Way of Northeast LouisianaMonroe, LACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $132,682 · through 2024Largest: $49,000 to OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIAL CENTER — to support business management and technology and high school equivalence test programs
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsOakland, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $90,000 · through 2024Largest: $40,000 to American Career College Educational — anaheim high school equivalency academy
Dollar General Literacy FoundationGoodlettsville, TNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $27,000 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to COASTAL PINES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOU — high school equivale
Largest: $10,000 to THE LITERACY PROJECT — to support free classes to adults in basic skills, high school equivalency.
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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 →