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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 “exploitation”
Where the money went
The Jensen ProjectDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $580,500 to NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — exists to build a world where people can live and love without sexual abuse and exploitation.
Largest: $500,000 to NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — to defend human dignity and to advocate for a world free from sexual exploitation, objectification, and violence.
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
10 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $900,000 to NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW — to support the compassionate ed systems and collaborative responses to commercial sexual exploitation initiative to transform county-wide systems and improve experiences/outcomes o…
Community Foundation of New JerseyMorristown, NJCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $457,410 · through 2024Largest: $117,000 to 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND — violence & exploitation prevention or victim assistance
Largest: $300,000 to AEQUITAS — project support: just exits for survivors of exploitation
Largest: $352,817 to GREENPEACE FUND INC — support to protect ape habitats by reducing industrial-scale exploitation of forests.
Tim Tebow FoundationJacksonville, FLCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $8.2M · through 2023Largest: $448,887 to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN — anti human trafficking and child exploitation
Sexual Assault Center of Pierce CountyTacoma, WACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $369,403 · through 2024Largest: $54,523 to Our Sisters House — to provide specialized crisis intervention referral triage and wrap-around case management services to youth and young adults experiencing commercial sexual exploitation or sex tra…
Largest: $55,045 to CARITAS LEBANON — toward expenses to provide shelter, medical care access, mental health services, psychosocial rehabilitation and counseling for women migrant domestic workers and refugees victims …
Largest: $6,500 to REDEEMED MINISTRIES — providing long-term residential trauma-informed care for women exploited in sex trafficking.
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $249,410 · through 2024Largest: $49,410 to CHICAGO ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — to provide the support to free communities from all forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual assault and the commercial sex trade.
Largest: $45,000 to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children — general operating support
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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 →