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12 funders with a record of paying for “european”
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Largest: $15.0M to CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY — to support research, outreach activities and operating costs of the budapest-based units of central european university in the 2024/25 academic year
Largest: $1.0M to STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION — for defending the european transition beyond petroleum
Largest: $9.3M to CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY — to support the launch of the osun research excellence hub at central european university's budapest campus
Largest: $3.3M to STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION — to support research and analysis on clean energy activities
Largest: $572,000 to EUROPEAN DIGITAL RIGHTS — general support and core support for institutional strengthening to convene the european digital rights field, and to conduct policy advocacy toward a fair, open, accountable digit…
Largest: $900,000 to CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES — empower women and girls; global health and development public awareness and analysis; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $194,571 to STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION — for its pooled fund for international energy
International Visitors Center of ChicagoChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $390,003 · through 2024Largest: $21,843 to Global Ties Detroit — young transatlantic innovation leaders initiative, the u.s. department of state's flagship program for emerging european entrepreneurs
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
14 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to Network of European Foundations — in support of the european ai & society fund
Largest: $103,525 to THE EUROPEAN- AFRICAN HEPATO- PANCREATO-BILIARY ASSOCIATION (E-AHPBA) — impact of a european training program for robot pancreatoduodenectomy using a video databank, da vinci simulator and robot biotissue anastomoses on clinical outcomes (learnbot): a …
Largest: $400,000 to Network of European Foundations — to support a donor collaborative to tackle pressing issues of migration and integration in europe.
Largest: $55,000 to University of Pennsylvania — for the university of pennsylvania - european university at st. petersburg m.a. and certificate in russian, eastern european and eurasian studies in the social sciences and humanit…
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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 →