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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 “expendable”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to DAVIDSON COLLEGE — to create a james b. duke professorship in africana studies at davidson college (expendable).
Largest: $100,000 to KESTREL LAND TRUST — these funds are restricted and must be expended for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes as defined under internal revenue code section 501(c)(3), and more spe…
Midwestern State University FoundationWichita Falls, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $9.7M · through 2024Largest: $966,533 to Midwestern State University — funds to be expended on scholarships as designated in scholarship agreements.
Innovia FoundationSpokane, WACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $268,635 · through 2024Largest: $81,954 to University of Idaho Foundation — to award the virtual possibilities network scholarship to abby duke. per innovia foundation's advancement fee policy, funds are to be expended solely for the purpose stated. advanc…
Largest: $115,000 to CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — scholarships/cap expend
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $4.6M · through 2022Largest: $1.6M to DePaul University — support for school of accountancy /ledger and quill, general operating support, support for school of music student scholarship, joan and jeff ferrill expendable innovation fund, s…
Edward J Gallagher Jr FoundationTowson, MDCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $121,799 · through 2024Largest: $61,947 to GILMAN SCHOOL — the gilman sch to accumulate a fund for bldg purposes, for scholarships or for its general corp. purposes to be expended on main. , care and replacement of trees and shrubbery on t…
Largest: $1.7M to HAITIAN FOUNDATION — all grants made by haiti air to the haitian foundation are for full support of the haitian foundation's mission (providing emergency aerial medical transportation in haiti) coverin…
Largest: $160,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — expendable scholarship fund and raja m. flores. m.d. scholarship fund
Largest: $100,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — endow professorship expendable fund
Largest: $358,333 to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — the gift shall be expendable and shall be used to create and support an expendable fund to be known as the kim and park study of the book program fund the assets of the program fun…
Largest: $10.0M to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — zell founders expendable fund at zli
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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 →