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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 “evidence”
Where the money went
Largest: $683,353 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project, which will evaluate the quality of the evidence base for medical produc…
Largest: $2.9M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — 81637 continuing evolving rwjf's evidence for action research program to be relevant and to advance racial equity, year 10
Largest: $590,000 to PAN-AFRICAN COLLECTIVE FOR EVIDENCE NPC — for hosting the africa evidence network
Largest: $25,000 to EVIDENT CHANGE — support evidence to scale team decision making and homeboy industries
Largest: $402,000 to EQUAL RESEARCH PTY LTD — for evidence-based research to strengthen and expand investment in and scale-up of evidence-based and feminist-informed strategies to advance gender equality and end violence again…
Largest: $15,000 to PROJECT EVIDENT INC — support for the book "next generation evidence: strategies for more equitable social impact"
Largest: $692,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — to study the impact of an evidence-based trauma treatment on identifying and reducing physical health indicators of stress.
Largest: $1.2M to URBAN INSTITUTE — to deepen and expand support for inclusive and equitable recovery in cities through strategic advising, data analysis, and technical assistance in sp2 cities; knowledge sharing, ac…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
36 matching grants · $14.3M · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — to support the publishing of results of two evidence maps of the impact and cost evidence on early childhood development and livelihoods interventions
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $23.4M · 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…
North Carolina CommunityGarner, NCCharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $112,500 to FIRST CARE MEDICAL CLINIC - MONROE — promote and support the implementation and expansion of collaborative care management (cocm), an evidence-based model integrating behavioral health services into medicaid-enrolled …
Largest: $437,500 to Project Evident — for core support of project evident
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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 →