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12 funders with a record of paying for “ghana”
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Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
54 matching grants · $36.3M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to STICHTING IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE — to support the community water and sanitation agency in its growth as a professionalized public utility in ghana, playing a stronger regulatory role within the sector in the contex…
Largest: $500,000 to UNIVERSITY OF GHANA — for support of promoting effective policies for women's economic empowerment in ghana
Largest: $100,000 to UNIVERSITY OF GHANA — core support for the business school for research and convenings on the political economy of oil resource distribution and implications for persistent spatial inequalities in ghana
Largest: $1.4M to UNIVERSITY OF GHANA — discovery and translational sciences; malaria; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $1.8M to University of Ghana — as a final grant for support of doctoral and early-career fellowships with expansion to four partner universities in ghana and the region (building a new generation of academics in…
Largest: $2,200 to A ROCHA GHANA — community-based development of a medicinal plant garden near the bobiri forest reserve and butterfly sanctuary, ghana: phase ii
Largest: $60,000 to GLOBAL BRIGADE GHANA — inspire, mobilize and collaborate with communities to achieve their own health and economic goals. the organization provides medical services to vulnerable populations in remote co…
Largest: $800,000 to SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL VEREIN FUR NACHHALTIGE ENERGIE — in support of developing carbon market activation plans in ghana, nigeria and rwanda as a basis for attracting climate finance for economic development
Largest: $3,390 to GHANA CSO PLATFORM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP GOALS — to work together with other civil society organizations, networks, coalitions and strategic partners, establishing the cso covid-19 response fund to complement and support the vari…
Largest: $2,000 to YPARD - GHANA — in support of ypard ghana's ruralurban linkages within the food systems of ghana project combating food insecurity.
Largest: $15,000 to DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PROVINCE OF GHANA — toward expenses of the safe-child advocacy (sca) project, to provide housing, workforce development and life skills training for vulnerable children, young girls in remote villages…
Largest: $1,428 to Samuel Baidoo — payment of tuition and residential fees to support excellent but needy college students in ghana through their degree education
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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 →