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12 funders with a record of paying for “ideas”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — core support for the aspen ideas festival to create an environment for people to meet and forge deep, lasting, and impactful relationships, and serve as both incubators and amplifi…
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
54 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to Arizona State University — grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, stem-based inventions and gai…
New Jersey Health FoundationPrinceton, NJCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $38.6M · through 2024Largest: $7.6M to Rutgers University — grants to support researchers' early stage innovative ideas.
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
65 matching grants · $848,984 · through 2024Largest: $53,240 to CT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (GARNER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION CORRIGAN COR — the cross mini-grant is used to start a smart recovery meeting for teens or young adults who use substances, an alternative peer group sober social events and activities for the sa…
Largest: $785,993 to JOHNS HOPKINS U — 78306 matching community-generated ideas with scientifically rigorous assessment to address the social factors associated with poor health outcomes
Largest: $250,000 to THE COMPACT INSTITUTE OF IDEAS INC — to educate the public on heterodox ideas and promote intellectual debate through content produced by the compact institute of ideas
Action for ChildrenColumbus, OHCharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to G TYREE LEARNING CENTER — idea incentive
Association of State and TerritorialArlington, VACharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2023Largest: $250,008 to CIVITAS NETWORKS FOR HEALTH — provide program planning and implementation, technical, policy and research support for the onc immunization data exchange, advancement and sharing (ideas) program.
Zionist HouseNewton, MACharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $347,000 · through 2024Largest: $55,000 to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — promote education on israel and zionist ideas.
Jobs for the FutureBoston, MACharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $435,500 · through 2023Largest: $86,000 to KEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — to support expansion of registered apprenticeship programs through industry intermediaries (idea-m)
Largest: $25,000 to Cerstin Johnson — the bret adams & paul reisch foundation supports expansive artworks with inherently theatrical ways of illuminating big ideas and concepts.
Largest: $2.0M to Digital Harbor Foundation Inc — to support the launch of a new nonprofit organization, renaissance philanthropy, who will be dedicated to surfacing breakthrough ideas in k-12 education, science, technology, and i…
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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 →