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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 “graphic”
Where the money went
Largest: $55,000 to AIGA LINK PROGRAM - SEATTLE — fund graphic design workshops and scholarships
Largest: $190,000 to SELF-HELP GRAPHICS AND ARTS INC — pacific standard time 2024
Largest: $100,000 to SELF-HELP GRAPHICS AND ARTS INC — empowering communities amplifying gentrification's negative health impacts: to support organizing efforts in the predominantly immigrant communities experiencing urbanization polic…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
7 matching grants · $875,000 · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to Lynda Barry — macarthur foundation fellow award - graphic novelist, cartoonist, and educator, fellows
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $203,333 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to UNAR Labs LLC — gaining access to digital graphical information such as graphs, charts, and maps, is one of the biggest challenges to success for people who are blind or visually-impaired (bvi). t…
Largest: $104,000 to Elusen Inc — grant for graphic design & printing costs
Largest: $50,000 to CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION — scholarships to support talent and accomplishments of graphic design and photography majors at csulb
Largest: $294,000 to Self-Help Graphics and Art Inc — to participate in the wallace arts initiative that will support arts organizations of color
Largest: $24,167 to Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Ctr — inspire oakland 2017 graphic arts
Largest: $13,500 to OWEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — bookmobile graphics
Largest: $8,000 to PRINT AND GRAPHICS SCHOLARSHIP FDN — general operating
The Rebuild Foundation NfpChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $125,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to GRACEFUL GRAYS LLC — support designers of color in the areas of fashion, furniture, industrial, graphic design and the arts.
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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 →