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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 “fate”
Where the money went
Largest: $2,000 to PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL — fate 2022 - finalist
Largest: $1.4M to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — support for fetch4: fate, emissions, and transport of ch4 in past and modern atmospheres
Dscw Kennedy FoundationRancho Palos Verdes, CA
4 matching grants · $125,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to CO HORSE RESCUE — to help save horses from uncertain fate at local livestock auction.
Largest: $500,000 to UC IRVINE — nsf-simons center for multiscale cell fate research
Largest: $250,000 to GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — support research on nanowires to regulate cellular fate trajectories of t cells
Largest: $562,100 to UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — to support a fate-mapped human pluripotent stem cell library for designer organoids
The Parkinson CouncilPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $171,821 · through 2023Largest: $86,821 to THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — the long term fate of mda progenitors derived from en1-tdtomato hips reporter cell in a rat model of parkinson's disease. funding for patient and caregiver guides for the parkinson…
Largest: $55,000 to Texas A&M University — specific and quantitative mri imaging for longitudinal cell fate tracking
Soma West Community Benefit DistrictSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $23,549 · through 2024Largest: $13,549 to SOMArts Cultural Center — fate and fortune fundraiser
Greater Cedar Rapids CommunityCedar Rapids, IACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $143,731 · through 2024Largest: $143,731 to MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — dennis and donna oldorf hospice house fund, hall-mar village, chris & suzy dewolf innovation center, fate's mending heart program, family caregivers center, hall-perrine cancer cen…
Largest: $1,500 to FATE FOUNDATION — fate foundation is a 501(c)3, nonprofit organization that supports toomer elementary with the resources and advocacy necessary to create a school community where every student thri…
Largest: $6,000 to FATE FOUNDATION — in support of grantee's project the scaleup lab accelerator bootcamp in nigeria.
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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 →

