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12 funders with a record of paying for “framework”
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Largest: $1.0M to FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE — 81587 contributing to a mindset consortium that addresses structural racism and advances health equity -- frameworks institute
Largest: $100,000 to BEIJING INSTITUTE OF FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY — to develop the environmental social and governance information disclosure indicator framework for chinese listed companies and to pilot this framework in beijing and huzhou
Largest: $275,000 to FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE — this grant will support the partnership with frameworks institute (fi) to provide customized technical assistance to equip human services organizations to shift public narratives t…
Largest: $800,000 to Woods Hole Research Center Inc — in support of research to develop an arctic carbon monitoring and prediction system that will incorporate ground based, airborne and satellite remote sensing data and computer mode…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
39 matching grants · $10.2M · through 2022Largest: $350,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — enhance economic security for families by developing a solidarity economics theoretical and policy framework with social movement and civic actors, producing written publications a…
Largest: $420,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — support to test the on track to career success framework to improve high school connection, graduation and workforce readiness in louisiana and new mexico
Largest: $900,000 to TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE (TNI) — to develop a transformative research and policy framework and build alliances in the global south around green industrial policies that are centered on social well-being, ecologica…
Largest: $100,000 to TRUST FOR AMERICAS HEALTH — advancing public health through federal policy and research: to utilize a framework to identify policy areas in which national and california stakeholders can directly address stru…
Largest: $217,487 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — to develop an adaptable framework for defining and measuring credentials of value, publishing a policy guidebook to inform state policymakers as they enact policies to increase ret…
Largest: $250,000 to MIT — computation-through-dynamics as a framework to link brain and behavior
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
18 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to Centre for Policy Research — to conduct research on existing institutional frameworks and delivery mechanisms that guide robust implementation of climate policies in india, using the air quality issue as a foc…
Largest: $49,155 to AFRICAN CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY STUDIES — to support acts's role as a collaborator in the national entrepreneurial institutions framework, to strengthen commercialization systems in kenya to increase capacity for local inn…
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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 →