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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 “error”
Where the money went
Largest: $331,981 to HAND IN HAND INDIA — provide access to a pair of spectacles to individuals identified with refractive error who otherwise cannot afford to pay for corrective glasses, encourage primary vision care prov…
Largest: $190,138 to Partners Healthcare System Inc — to expand and sustain the primary care research in diagnostic errors (pride) diagnostic learning and improvement network by building a large repository of diagnostic error cases in…
Largest: $8,400 to OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — collaborative research on algebraic group actions, algebraic k-theory, algebro-geometric error correcting codes and related topics
Largest: $1.4M to ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — to test the hypotheses that biomechanical forces are key to overcoming errors associated with random physical processes and that they mediate coordination between biological units
Largest: $28,000 to CAMERA — correcting media errors
Largest: $400,000 to ASPIRATION — to support the ai now institute in their work on artificial intelligence accountability to ensure that all artificial intelligence is sensitive and responsive to the people who bea…
Khyentse FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $150,012 · through 2023Largest: $150,012 to MIDDLE WAY EDUCATION — usa - grant supporting a research, development, and advisory organization that helps parents, educators, school leaders, and governments introduce the wisdom of the dharma to child…
Largest: $5,500 to TRIAL AND ERROR — general funding
Largest: $50,000 to Florida State University Research Foundation Inc — handling covariate selection uncertainty and measurement error in causal mediation analysis: a two-step approach to more accurate intervention studies
Das GreenhausBoerne, TXCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $500,000 · through 2023Largest: $500,000 to CITY OF BOERNE — returning funds that were provided in error
Largest: $239,794 to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — reducing medication ordering errors through indications-based prescribing
Largest: $133,333 to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto — advocating for prevention: the health equity implications of billing errors in preventive medicine
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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 →