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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 “gates”
Where the money went
Largest: $276.6M to GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities; tube…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY — advised - to support the golden gate audubon birding for everyone scholarship fund. advised - for the scholarship program.
Largest: $10.0M to GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS — to support eradication of polio worldwide in collaboration with bill & melinda gates foundation
Mimi and Peter Haas FundSan Francisco, CA
17 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $228,375 to CROSS CULTURAL FAMILY CENTER — model centers initiative 2024, golden gate, leland, and richmond centers
Marin Community FoundationNovato, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION — program support
Largest: $20.0M to GATES INSTITUTE — project support
International Citycounty ManagementWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $350,000 · through 2023Largest: $35,000 to TOWN OF TARBORO — development of a housing study to assess community needs and enhance stability for both property owners and renters through the icma gates economic mobility and opportunity program…
Largest: $5,000 to Golden Gate Science League — in support of the 2021 golden gate science olympiad invitational, occurring virtually in february 2021.
Largest: $100,000 to IRON GATE INC — general operating support
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $668,050 · through 2024Largest: $268,000 to Beautiful Gate Foundation — community development
East Bay Community FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $231,388 · through 2024Largest: $17,500 to GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA GOLDEN GATE BIRD ALLIANCE — eco-education, general support
Jobs for the FutureBoston, MACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2023Largest: $247,500 to FSG INC — to support gates multi pathways support
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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 →