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12 funders with a record of paying for “handbook”
Where the money went
Largest: $28,000 to Boy Scouts of Northeast Georgi — handbooks, uniforms and camp scholarships for low-income boys.
Largest: $1,331 to WS NEAL HIGH SCHOOL — education (student handbook folders)
Largest: $206,739 to POLLEN8 — to provide support to implement an administrative expansion plan to increase its capacity to provide prevention, treatment, and reintegration programs for women with substance use …
Largest: $100,000 to POINT SOURCE YOUTH — support direct cash transfer program handbook and expand national demonstration project
Vermont Law SchoolSouth Royalton, VTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $55,552 · through 2024Largest: $43,480 to National Farm To School Network — to update handbook including state by state summaries of every enacted, defeated or still pending farm to school bill.
Largest: $146,000 to WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION NORTHERN IRELAND LIMITED — vital funds for eight local women's aid groups, social youth action, including wow bus and financial handbook for survivors
Largest: $5,000 to CUB SCOUT PACK 211 — dues, handbooks, scholarships
Honorable Order of Kentucky ColonelsLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $19,362 · through 2024Largest: $9,972 to Operation Parent — operation parent handbooks
Largest: $163,249 to NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC — to strengthen economics research on science funding practices and their impacts by holding conferences, producing a handbook, running boot camps, conducting site visits, and other …
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $50,000 · through 2021Largest: $25,000 to Oceti Wakan-Sacred Fireplace — support for: - developing a video to introduce the program curriculum to participants - developing videos that go into detail on the workbook curriculum life skills for the young n…
Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF DAKAR (UNAD) SOS SAHEL — the project will organize a 1-year training program in villages surrounding the niokolo-koba national park. two sets of workshops and training courses (to cover dry and rainy seaso…
Largest: $4,000 to TUCKER CO HIGH SCHOOL — student handbook and academic awards
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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 →