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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 “forty”
Where the money went
The Community Foundation of Sarasota CoSarasota, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $405,814 · through 2024Largest: $174,333 to FORTY CARROTS FAMILY CENTER — capital purchases, general support, program support
Largest: $100,000 to FORTIS CAPITAL — for general operating support to sustain and grow fortis capital's activities increasing access to financial, knowledge, and social capital for bipoc-owned businesses and businesse…
Largest: $2,500 to THEATRE FORTY INC — general & unrestricted
Manatee Community FoundationBradenton, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $121,073 · through 2024Largest: $55,750 to FORTY CARROTS FAMILY CENTER — human services
Largest: $20,000 to FORTY CARROTS FAMILY CENTER — mental health & parents' education
Largest: $400,000 to FORTY CORNERS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — charitable support for animal rescue activities
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $805,000 · through 2024Largest: $505,000 to FORTY CARROTS OF SARASOTA INC — community & human services
Largest: $319,665 to Forty Carrots Family Center — general & matching
Largest: $10,000 to PROJECT FORTY — general operations
Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM — in partial support of the epiqs postdoctoral symposium, to be held in april 2023, which will assemble about forty postdoctoral researchers from epiqs-funded research groups.
Largest: $7,717 to Forty Mile Point Lighthouse Society — charitable/general
Largest: $10,000 to FORTY CARROTS OF SARASOTA INC — general operating
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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 →

