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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.
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Eb Research PartnershipNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $12.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.9M to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — to fund research to find a cure for eb
Largest: $16,000 to ALISON ARMSTRONG — to aid professional artists, writers and composers who find themselves in financial distress.
Largest: $3.3M to LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — for research towards finding a cure for follicular lymphoma
Largest: $270,031 to ACADEMYHEALTH — 80531 monitoring the work of 2023 health data for action grantees and facilitating dissemination of research findings to relevant stakeholders
Largest: $3.5M to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, transl…
Light of Day FoundationAllenhurst, NJCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $887,361 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION — assist research in finding a cure
Largest: $200,000 to MININGWATCH CA — for the find-an-independent-mining-expert database (faime) pilot project, a shared tool for organizations and communities affected by mining worldwide.
Largest: $25,000 to FAIR HEALTH INC — to assess the impact and efficacy of increased use of telehealth on reducing barriers to care for communities of color. funding will support analysis of connecticut national privat…
Largest: $244,470 to Improve your tomorrow — the life path for black and latino boys is often the same. they leave high school without graduating, struggle to find employment, commit a crime and then find themselves in jail. …
Largest: $25,000 to MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — charitable contribution - to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those l…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
10 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2024Largest: $2.0M to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — to translate the newest scientific findings on prenatal to 3 child development into common language that can be understood and used by decision-makers and the public to better supp…
The Hide and Seek FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $462,764 · through 2024Largest: $71,000 to UNIVERSITY OF IL AT CHICAGO — to find a cure for the sixty-four strains of lysosomal disease.
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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 →