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.

1 funder with a record of paying for “expnses”

Where the money went

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Lin & Susie Chen Foundation → Doctors Without Borders: $80K across 3 grants, latest 2024Lin & Susie Chen Foundation → International Rescue Committee: $45K across 1 grant, latest 2022Lin & Susie Chen Foundation → Bowery Mission: $15K across 3 grants, latest 2024Lin & Susie Chen Foundation: $140K on this topic. Open the funder.Lin & Susie Chen Foundation$140KDoctors Without Borders: received $80K on this topicDoctors Without Borders$80KInternational Rescue Committee: received $45K on this topicInternational Rescue Committee$45KBowery Mission: received $15K on this topicBowery Mission$15K
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 20192025. 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 →