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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 “evaluation”
Where the money went
Largest: $5.0M to MDRC — to support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its rese…
Largest: $540,000 to CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC — 82409 evaluating the impact of the rwjf policy department's policy infrastructure portfolio
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
88 matching grants · $34.6M · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC — to support the benchmarking foundation evaluation practices research
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
62 matching grants · $17.8M · through 2024Largest: $457,830 to KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON — optimizing the primary care team workforce: phase i planning; docent-commonspirit birth equity evaluation; delta center california evaluation; chcf telehealth learning collaborativ…
Largest: $30,600 to COUNTY OF SALT LAKE — support monitoring and evaluation of evidence2success and community engagement and access to data for the cross-site outcome evaluation
Largest: $50,000 to CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC — to support the evaluation roundtable, a network of learning and evaluation leaders and practitioners in philanthropy.
Largest: $273,100 to Southern Methodist University — to support a fellowship for early career researchers and evaluators in the field of philanthropic evaluation and learning in partnership with higher education.
Child TrendsRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2025Largest: $545,021 to MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INC — support for research, evaluation, and program activities
Largest: $1.1M to PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC — for achieving researchers' autonomy on impact evaluation capabilities in east and west africa
Largest: $264,205 to PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — to continue to evaluate the veterans and military families initiative, provide evaluation support to the portfolios grantees, and advance research connected to meaningful policy op…
Largest: $1.5M to CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES — clinical trial to evaluate a novel mdi-bgm decision support system
Largest: $56,000 to Seattle Foundation — in support of the charitable activities of seattle foundation's sponsored project, equitable evaluation initiative, to provide training on the equitable evaluation framework
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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 →