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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 “facing”
Where the money went
Lilly EndowmentIndianapolis, IN
80 matching grants · $44.2M · through 2025Largest: $3.7M to INDIANAPOLIS CTR FOR CONGREGATIONS — challenges facing pastoral leaders
Largest: $397,480 to University of Arkansas Foundation Inc — to support public-facing data projects, both descriptive and causal, serving the general public and specific education audiences through research/practice partnerships.
Michigan State Bar FoundationLansing, MICharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $37.0M · through 2024Largest: $5.1M to LAKESHORE LEGAL AIDMETRO — mshda - edp - legal services for low-income households facing eviction
Largest: $150,000 to NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY — for a new disability journalism fellowship, with a focus on field-facing learning about how to report on disability
Largest: $105,000 to ADJOA ANYANE-YEBOA - GENERAL HOSP C — 82578 fit abnormal to colonoscopy: equity in screening completion (faces study) -- adjoa anyane-yeboa, md, mph
Largest: $203,341 to TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — support for research to identify the inter-related, systemic challenges that latino-owned businesses (lobs) face when growing and develop tools to help these business owners. 20220…
Largest: $400,000 to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII — to support the expansion of this organization to a new campus that will include a career and learning center to improve educational and job opportunities for people who have disabi…
Largest: $60,000 to LA MAISON I'ARC-EN-CIEL TURNIN — assistance to people facing hardships
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $4.6M · through 2023Largest: $1.1M to Facing History and Ourselves Inc — general fund, annual contribution and general operating support.
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…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
21 matching grants · $6.9M · through 2022Largest: $350,000 to JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — establish a community organizing, research, and advocacy agenda in alabama and mississippi to support community benefits agreements with manufacturers to build pipeline to well-pai…
Largest: $50,000 to THE UCLA FOUNDATION — advancing racial and health equity via research and policy change: to study health and racial issues in america, document the challenges that communities face as they seek racial e…
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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 →