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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 “exeter”
Where the money went
Largest: $669,554 to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — uncovering new genetic mechanisms underlying extreme early-onset type 1 diabetes
Largest: $290,000 to EXETER TOWNSHIP — to continue charitable purpose of organization
Largest: $18,000 to THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN EXETER — to support religion
Largest: $1.4M to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — university of exeter medical school
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationConcord, NHCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $193,197 · through 2024Largest: $17,454 to SAU #16-Exeter Region Cooperative School District — desig. distributions, scholarship, arts in action, artist in residence
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — scholarships & financial aid
Largest: $2,000 to PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — e.s. wells kerr scholarship for princeton
Exeter HospitalCharlestown, MACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $379,000 · through 2023Largest: $30,000 to EXETER TOWN — exeter parks & recreation is using the funding to host senior luncheons, health, wellness & fitness classes, senior trips, and for a part-time program coordinator.
Exeter Community Education FoundationReading, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $154,279 · through 2025Largest: $54,286 to EXETER SCHOOL DISTRICT — to fund faculty devised programs and projects that benefit students of the exeter school district
Largest: $25,001 to PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — the exeter fund
Largest: $105,000 to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — to support research into misinformation and harmful content within the mastodon ecosystem to protect users including marginalised communities, by evaluating the effectiveness of di…
Largest: $25,000 to PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — see statement #7
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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 →

