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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 “flows”
Where the money went
Largest: $482,046 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — revisiting the turbulence problem using statistical mechanics: theoretical studies on transitional and turbulent flows
Largest: $275,000 to Colorado Water Trust Inc — to acquire instream flow water rights for streams and rivers within colorado, develop innovative instream flow water sharing policies & agreements, develop dei in the application o…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2023Largest: $660,212 to FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC — restore canyon creek stream flow and function, id
Largest: $574,800 to FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — to tackle challenging long-standing problems in quantum and classical turbulence research fields using levitated superfluid liquid helium drops and liquid helium flow apparatus.
Environment NowNewport Beach, CA
14 matching grants · $415,000 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to RESTORE THE DELTA — delta water quality and flows
Largest: $100,000 to Grand Canyon Conservancy — support for a study to advance the understanding of flow paths, flow rates and water budgets of the aquifer system below the kaibab plateau on the north side of grand canyon nation…
Young Womens Christian AssociationSpokane, WACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $365,094 · through 2024Largest: $74,664 to CITY OF SPOKANE — government flow-through grant
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
7 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2024Largest: $515,000 to INTERNATIONAL WATER INITIATIVE FOR SANITATION AND HYGIENE INC — to support a global initiative to improve water safety by stopping the flow of lead products
Largest: $50,000 to TEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY — media innovation project
Largest: $2.8M to ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON U HOSP FDN — 79910 installing a digital operating system for 26 operating rooms at rwj university hospital to streamline surgical flow and ensure patient safety
Largest: $93,689 to MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — dr. ferguson - research for lower gas flows during respiratory support for extremely preterm infants
Largest: $3.1M to SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC — flow through grant - for charitable, scientific, literary, educational purposes or religious needs.
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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 →