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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 “expertise”
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Fox TheatreAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to HART COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE — preservation and operations expertise, consultation and education
Largest: $304,000 to COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — connecting professionals/sharing expertise
Largest: $150,000 to THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — for an intergovernmental personnel act mobility program assignment to the white house office of science and technology policy for specialized expertise on privacy-centric transpare…
Largest: $253,400 to Search for Common Ground — for a project to amplify the expertise of african peacebuilding practitioners and scholars
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $5.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES — to provide coordinated legal information, advice and referrals to low-income people in cook county and to veterans and people impacted by the criminalization of cannabis statewide.…
Largest: $500,000 to THE SIXTH AMENDMENT CENTER INCORPORATED — to provide state leaders with non-partisan research and expertise on indigent defense.
Largest: $1.3M to TECHCONGRESS FOUNDATION — to strengthen technology expertise within the u.s. congress by supporting the congressional innovation fellowship, which places an even number of technologists in congressional off…
Largest: $375,000 to ADVANCE PEACE — promoting community health and safety: to support training, technical assistance and other expertise for community-based violence intervention programs that are improving community…
Largest: $12.8M to Foundation for the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation — to support the expansion of michigan state university's downtown flint campus footprint for additional public health expertise and enhanced vibrancy of the health and wellness dist…
Largest: $810,000 to ZERO TO THREE — 79710 supporting the expertise of those with lived experience to disrupt systemic racism in policies and advocacy aimed at serving children and families
Largest: $435,823 to STEM Next Opportunity Fund — to fund, in partnership with the charles stewart mott foundation, the stem next opportunity fund fellowship program with expertise in afterschool and summer learning. (amendment to…
AcademyhealthWashinton, DCCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $470,636 · through 2024Largest: $100,610 to GRAYHALL — provides consultative expertise and research services which include project management, engagement, collaborating with other doula agencies and produce brief summary of findings.
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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 →