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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 “greaves”
Where the money went
Firelight MediaNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $234,400 · through 2022Largest: $27,000 to INDIGO FILMS LLC — greaves research & development
Largest: $200,000 to FIRELIGHT MEDIA — william greaves fund
Largest: $10,000 to ROYER GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND INC — to fund the recipient's operating budget
Largest: $411,000 to FIRELIGHT MEDIA — organizational effectiveness crm project phase 2 ($11,000), operating support ($150,000), william greaves and impact campaign funds ($250,000)
Largest: $5,700 to ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — for general support
Largest: $5,000 to ROYER GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND — general & unrestricted
Largest: $23,000 to ASPEN GREAVES — greaves, aspen (pittsburgh, u. of) "a multi-method approach to mongol-era agropastoralist subsistence"
Largest: $4,000 to TEXAS A & M UNIV FBO BLAKE GREAVES — general operating
Largest: $23,500 to GREAVES ALAN — villa scholars
Arizona Community FoundationPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $203,166 · through 2024Largest: $203,166 to HERITAGE FOUNDATION — this award is designated support for the erika and roger greaves intern in perpetuity program.
Largest: $100,000 to FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — for the production of once upon a time in harlem, a multi-component, posthumous project by pioneering filmmaker william greaves exploring the reflections and intergenerational dial…
Cabaa Educational FoundationDowners Grove, IL
1 matching grant · $8,000 · through 2024Largest: $8,000 to COLE GREAVES — collegiate scholarship
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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 →