Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “forms”
Where the money went
Largest: $278,200 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — neural computations for visual form processing and form-based cognition
Largest: $54,100 to SEWA - AIFW INC — to help fight inequalities, injustice and intolerance in all its forms
Largest: $362,599 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — in support of the development and applications of novel neutron scattering techniques for investigations of exotic forms of magnetism in materials.
Sanford Health Foundation NorthSioux Falls, SDCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $15.8M · through 2024Largest: $3.5M to SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO — see form 990, page 2, part ii
Largest: $160,891 to INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION — to improve measurement of informal employment through building the capacity of national statistical offices and the newly formed network of labor statisticians for more systematic …
The Evangelical Lutheran Good SamaritanSioux Falls, SDCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $22.8M · through 2024Largest: $7.6M to THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY — see form 990, page 2, part iii
Largest: $131,814 to INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO (ICNC) — to promote, encourage, and support the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination through all forms of the arts, including literature, performing arts, visua…
Sanford Health FoundationSioux Falls, SDCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $139.3M · through 2024Largest: $53.4M to SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER — see form 990, page 2, part iii
Foundation of the Great Lakes Conference Churches of God GeneralFindlay, OHCharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $923,255 · through 2025Largest: $308,266 to Great Lakes Conference Churches of God General Conference — see form 990 schedule i, part iv.
Largest: $75,000 to COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY — an exit grant in the form of general support.
The Stanley & JoyceBeverly Hills, CA
21 matching grants · $183,301 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to CONCERN FOUNDATION — to support and provide critical funding to post-doctoral cancer researchers focused primarily on cancer genetics, cell biology, and immunology for all forms of cancer prevention an…
Susan H & Wilbur H Marcy TrustWinter Park, FLCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $624,084 to First United Methodist Ch of WP — see attachment to form 990, page 2
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →