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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 “identity”
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The Diane and Guilford Glazer FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
127 matching grants · $11.5M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to AMERICAN FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY — thriving jewish identities and communities
Largest: $125,000 to WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC — core support for the whitman-walker institute policy department, the experts on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection and use, to provide expertise to state and fe…
Largest: $50,000 to AMICUS DH — general operating support for gender identity recognition (change of name and gender on identity documents) and for documentation of violence and discrimination in mexico.
Largest: $50,000 to Northwestern University — debate, diversity, and identity: examining the organization of a racially diverse afterschool program and ethnic-racial identity development
Largest: $40,000 to SAMANTHA FLADD — fladd, samantha (washington state u.) "accumulating identity in trash: spatial modification and spiritual stewardship in ancestral hopi villages"
Largest: $5,000 to IDENTITY INC — identity middle school mindfulness program
Largest: $100,000 to IDENTITY — to support identitys transformational campaign for ambitious growth, innovation and impact over three years
Largest: $700,000 to IDENTITY — identitys transformational campaign
Largest: $250,000 to JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICA — to provide support for the global jewish framework that ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and connects jews to israel and one another, and conveys the voice…
Largest: $850,000 to PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES — our market, a multi-faceted effort to explore, promote, and support the diverse cultural identities of 9th street
Largest: $500,000 to WHITTIER COLLEGE — to support an investigation of the historical evolution of an intersectional "brown" identity in the united states
Largest: $65,000 to ARJUN SETHI — to complete a documentary film on the manifestations of racialized and identity-based hate in the united states and how it has manifested in american society in order to educate th…
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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 →