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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 “imagine”
Where the money went
Largest: $7.0M to CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING — support to re-imagine and redefine the high school learning experience
Largest: $116,510 to SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — general operating, just imagine teacher grants, israel response grant
Largest: $400,000 to PROTEUS FUND INC — core support for the prevention collaborative, a network of activists, practitioners and researchers seeking to re-imagine prevention by using evidence-based approaches to preventi…
Largest: $131,814 to INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO (ICNC) — to promote, encourage, and support the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination through all forms of the arts, including literature, performing arts, visua…
Largest: $40,000 to DOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF OHIO — dolly parton's imagination library of ohio, book giving expansion
Largest: $555,000 to Oregon State University Foundation — juntos beyond the pandemic: expanding and re-imagining juntos
Largest: $450,000 to ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS — 81653 implementing intelligent mischief's black imagination lab that uses the lens of reparations for black people to imagine and build equitable futures
Best BeginningsAnchorage, AKCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $202,783 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to NORTH STAR IMAGINATION LIBRARY — imagination library
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
12 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to ACCELERATEKY INC — in support of a research project to document the application of civic imagination and world building methodologies in fostering social change in communities across kentucky
Largest: $2,500 to Polk County Friends of the Library - Imagination Library — purchase books for imagination library program
Largest: $300,000 to DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — dane co. imagination library
Largest: $50,000 to NON-PROFIT HUB FOUNDATION (IMAGINE OMAHA) — imagine omaha 2022 operating grant
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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 →