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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 “illiness”
Where the money went
Largest: $5,000 to Children's Hospital Los Angeles — provide funds for children illiness research
Largest: $70,000 to GRAND AVENUE — helping people with mental illiness
Marshalltown Area United WayMarshalltown, IACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $70,512 · through 2024Largest: $25,539 to CENTER ASSOCIATES — evaluation and treatment services-mental illinesses
IndygiveColorado Springs, COCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $105,321 · through 2023Largest: $37,460 to NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS CS — general operating support
Largest: $8,000 to ELIZABETH STREBEL UNIV OF ILLI — college scholarship
Brown UniversityProvidence, RICharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $214,382 · through 2021Largest: $214,382 to Board of Trustees of the University of Illi — subcontract grant award
Largest: $50,000 to Joy in Childhood Foundation — dunkin donuts foundation in support of children battling hunger or illiness
Largest: $1,000 to NATIONAL MS SOCIETY - GREATER ILLI — program/operating support
Bridge of Allen FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL
2 matching grants · $2,000 · through 2022Largest: $1,000 to Wounded Warrior Project — to support programs for veterans and service members who incurred phyical or mental injury, illiness or wounds while service in the militry on or after 9/11/01.
Largest: $15,000 to UNITED CHURCH FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLI — help with staffing and programming costs and retreat funding
Largest: $10,000 to NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS — promote charity
Largest: $10,000 to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLI — unrestricted general
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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 →