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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 “geology”
Where the money went
Largest: $75,000 to NM BUREAU GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES (GEOCHRON LAB) — to conduct research and interact with state and federal agencies and industry to facilitate prudent exploitation of the state's geological resources
Geological Society of America FoundationBoulder, COCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $1.9M to GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — to assist in funding research in the field of geology and dissemination of information.
Largest: $50,000 to MID-CONTINENT GEOLOGICAL LIBRARY — establish geological digital records
Largest: $50,000 to CALVIN UNIVERSITY — geology scholarship
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $75,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — geological sciences graduate fellowship fund
Largest: $320,000 to California Institute of Technology — three year post-doc fellowship, division of geological and planetary sciences.
Largest: $4,000 to BRADEN RUDDY — scholarship for mining and geological education
Houston Geological SocietyHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $87,426 · through 2024Largest: $29,999 to HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — scholarships & general support
Friends of the Geology Museum University of Wisconsin Madison inMadison, WICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $140,000 · through 2025Largest: $80,000 to University of Wisconsin - Madison — $55,000 grant to help purchase the vienna meteorite and display it at the university of wisconsin geology museum. $25,000 grant to support general operations at the university of w…
Largest: $2,500 to WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — bartleson prather geology scholarship fund
Largest: $400,000 to MIT — the geological record of early life on earth
Largest: $75,000 to COLORADO COLLEGE — endowed scholarship and geology department discretionary fund
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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 →