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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 “frail”
Where the money went
The George H Nettleton HomePrairie Village, KS
43 matching grants · $970,870 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL CSC — elderly and frail services elderly and frail serviceselderly and frail services
Largest: $25,000 to ELDER CARE SERVICES OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS — provides meals and other services to frail seniors
Largest: $247,500 to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — development of a vision screening and care pathway in frail older adults at risk of falls
Largest: $190,000 to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — to establish and conduct a randomized control trial on a community health worker program supporting frail elderly adults.
United Way of Portage CountyStevens Point, WICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $329,054 · through 2023Largest: $77,693 to Meals on Wheels — meals on wheels provides home delivered to the homebound, frail, chronically ill, convalescent elderly, or disabled persons in the stevens point area.
Largest: $75,000 to Guardians of San Diego — home for the frail and elderly
Largest: $10,000 to MIZELL SENIOR CENTER — to provide food for a valley-wide meals on wheels program serving the 650 square mile coachella valley from desert hot springs and palm springs to salton sea. the program serves fr…
Harold Kramer FoundationLawrence Township, NJ
4 matching grants · $14,000 · through 2025Largest: $5,000 to Greenwood House — to provide care for frail and elderly
The Chapel Hill Residential RetirementChapel Hill, NCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $65,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to PIEDMONT HEALTH SENIORCARE — pace program for frail seniors
Largest: $9,000 to GURWIN JEWISH HEALTH FOUNDATION — unrestricted grant to support quality health care, services and programs for frail, elderly and younger disabled adults
Largest: $5,000 to GEORGE FRAILE FOUNDATION — medical missions
Largest: $120,000 to DOUGLAS CO VISITING NURSES — to supplement cost of providing in-home care for qualified no/low income, frail, uninsured and underinsured in vna's home health and hospice programs.
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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 →