Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “experts”
Where the money went
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
45 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $88,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — grants awarded to us-based faculty or student teams for global project explorations to enhance professional development and knowledge base within the field of biomedical design and…
Largest: $500,000 to THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — core support for the congressional program to bring legislators together with internationally-recognized academics, experts and leaders to study their ideas and explore policy alte…
Largest: $450,000 to JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC — to support the growth of the joint center for political and economic studies as a visible, credible leader in nonpartisan technology policy research by enabling the hiring of new e…
Largest: $850,000 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — to establish a collaborative of foremost experts on dual-eligible research to provide policy-responsive analyses on integration between medicare and medicaid.
The Eurasia FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
27 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2023Largest: $351,685 to GLOBAL IMPACT — partnership with international experts and peers
Largest: $2.6M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — in support of the development, piloting, and evaluation of resources and materials that aim to teach scientifically grounded reasoning for youth and non-expert scientists.
Largest: $500,000 to CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — to support ceip's research and initiative to elevate ukrainian policy-oriented and scholarly perspectives, and to build a network of ukraine-based experts
Largest: $19,533 to OPEN DATA INSTITUTE — in support of conducting desk research, expert interviews, analysis and report writing to produce guidance for data institutions on how federated learning can be deployed to suppor…
Norton HealthcareLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $570,000 to Board of Education of Jefferson County Kentucky — program support to ensure that trainers and sports medicine experts are available and support of baseline concussion testing.
Largest: $1.0M to RAND CORPORATION — to position rand corporation as a data-informed expert on veterans policy, responding to and generating ideas, and as a convener of researchers situated at think tanks and academic…
Largest: $536,714 to THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — to support a new york-area network of museum partners focused on scientific research in the fields of cultural heritage and art conservation through access to expert researchers an…
Largest: $225,000 to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University — to investigate how digital public policy impacts civil society and how to strengthen and expand connections between civil society support organizations and digital policy experts.
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →