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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 “fundamental”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.1M to California Institute of Technology — in support of research to develop precision experiments that search for new fundamental particles of nature.
CodeorgSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
89 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2024Largest: $120,900 to ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION (AVID) — grantee to provide professional development and community building for k-12 teachers using the code.org curriculum and professional development model. funding 2022-2023 code.org co…
Largest: $5.6M to UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH — a major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
Largest: $3.0M to GERARD'T HOOFT — 2025 special breakthrough prize in fundamental physics
Largest: $174,211 to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM — for research into solar system fundamental frequencies, earth precession frequency, and lunar periodicities
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
7 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2024Largest: $20,750 to CAREY BAPTIST COLLEGE — theological anthropology, fundamental need, and human flourishing: a women scholars project
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $4.7M · through 2022Largest: $2.1M to The University of Chicago — to support the polsky small business financial fundamentals program. in support of its small business growth program planning phase. supporting pritzker school of medicine. contrib…
Largest: $1.0M to SANTA FE INSTITUTE — dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems
Largest: $998,532 to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — 80249 gun policy research: uncovering fundamental information on the problem of gun violence, with a focus on how policies affect black americans
Largest: $175,000 to READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURG — to support early literacy development through the storymobile and book babies programs, to mitigate the literacy and opportunity gaps in target reading is fundamental neighborhoods…
Largest: $450,000 to GLOBAL IMPACT — core support to global impact for govact to support coordinated policy across governors offices to protect fundamental freedoms
Largest: $125,889 to CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — the center for reproductive rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.
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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 →