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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 “faculty”
Where the money went
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
69 matching grants · $9.2M · through 2024Largest: $164,614 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — junior faculty development
Largest: $140,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — to support the work as a josiah macy jr. foundation, macy faculty scholar
Largest: $942,000 to COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — to support a progressive reconceptualization of the organization's extensive suite of faculty and administrative leadership programs and trainings that place equity and justice at …
Great Lakes Colleges AssociationAnn Arbor, MICharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $927,247 · through 2024Largest: $120,857 to ALLEGHENY COLLEGE — grants to provide campus release time for faculty liaisons plus individual grants to faculty for research &/or teaching
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
57 matching grants · $1.6M · 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…
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteChevy Chase, MDCharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $34.6M · through 2023Largest: $2.6M to Vanderbilt University — h. gray scholars - faculty
Nc State Investment FundRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $146.0M · through 2023Largest: $23.5M to ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY — scholarships, faculty support, departmental support and facility support
Largest: $181,448 to FURMAN UNIVERSITY — to support a year-long faculty fellowship at the national humanities center.
Thurgood Marshall College FundWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
33 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $12,500 to Tennessee State University — cbre faculty research grant
Associated Colleges of the MidwestChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
33 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $195,914 to ST OLAF COLLEGE — faculty development
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $17.2M · through 2022Largest: $2.1M to The UCLA Foundation — support for "friends of action research" (chancellors organization #6200, dept. #3805, fund #49211). support for university of california cancer consortium ucla health - to support…
Council for Christian CollegesWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
34 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $80,000 to GORDON COLLEGE — faculty development and immigration projects
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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 →