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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 “fiction”
Where the money went
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
26 matching grants · $3.3M · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to MANUEL MUNOZ — macarthur foundation fellow award - fiction writer
Largest: $50,000 to KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - KENNETH M CAD — funding of annual literary awards that honors authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature.
Largest: $75,000 to VALDEZ-QUADE KRISTIN — literary fellowship - fiction
Largest: $500,000 to DOCUMENTAL AMBULANTE AC — for a reserve fund to build organizational resiliency and financial sustainability to ensure the ability to foster the transformative potential of non-fiction media and build a mor…
Largest: $70,000 to FUND FOR THE GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS — fellowship in either fiction, general nonfiction, or biography for a woman or a person of color
Largest: $10,000 to AMERICAN SHORT FICTION — general support purposes
Largest: $22,500 to LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS — la times festival of books provides prizes for literary excellence, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing. the la times festival provides a prize ca…
Largest: $3,000 to SCIENCE FICTION OUTREACH PROJECT — promote reading of science fiction
Largest: $15,000 to FICTIONAL ARTISTS CONTEMPORARY THEATRESAN FRANCISCO (FACTSF) — general operating support
Largest: $12,500 to THE CENTER FOR FICTION — gift for program support
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $148,675 · through 2024Largest: $94,400 to FICTIONAL ARTISTS CONTEMPORARY THEATRE SAN FRANCISCO — for general support
Largest: $80,000 to LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION — business plan consultant
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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 →