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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 “gathering”
Where the money went
Largest: $750,000 to THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — general support and core support for the gathering, a performance based on the ancestral tradition of the ring shou
Largest: $360,000 to Texas Southern University Foundation — 78328 strengthening health equity data gathering t
Largest: $1,900 to WISCONSIN JUSTICE INITIATIVE — foundation gathering honorarium
Largest: $500,000 to MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA — to support an affordable housing development that will integrate housing for people with disabilities and include a gathering place for people with and without disabilities to conn…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
16 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE — enable the organization to achieve its mission to transform new mexico into a thriving community by engaging with latino immigrants in educational and career opportunities that bui…
Largest: $50,000 to GATHERING OF WEST CHESTER — refugee housing fund
Largest: $50,000 to COASTAL ROOTS FARM — supporting healthy food systems in indigenous communities: to support garden projects, ongoing training and technical support and coastal gathering spaces for indigenous community …
Humanities Council of Washington DcWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $408,040 · through 2022Largest: $43,200 to CAPITOL BOP INC — humanities festival & gathering grant and enhancement grant
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $558,978 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — to host community gathering, provide public policy research,legal research, legal representation and advocacy, community outreach to residents in detroit.
Largest: $510,000 to University of the Witwatersrand — for building capacity of institutional data gathering, policy advocacy, and research at african research university alliance universities
Largest: $750,000 to McKenzie River Gathering Foundation — for capital support for the center for social enterprise, a racial-justice centered incubator, convening space and resource hub for 12-15 nonprofit and bipoc-owned small businesses…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
8 matching grants · $800,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — in support of news is out and its research project to document and gather key data on the state of lgbtq+ media
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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 →