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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 “inclusion”
Where the money went
Largest: $250,000 to BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — core support for the disability inclusion fund's disability inclusion x tech fund to support civil society organizations researching, advocating, and organizing at the intersection…
Largest: $378,845 to NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC — 82419 supporting the southern cities economic inclusion initiative in working to implement citywide economic-inclusion strategies in southern cities
Largest: $1.5M to ALLIANCE FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION — inclusive financial systems
Largest: $25,000 to YOUNG SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC EMPOWERMENT — developing inclusive narratives to improve health of lgbtqia+ communities: to research and develop inclusive narratives in partnership with lgbtqia+ serving organizations in the in…
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteChevy Chase, MDCharity · may take applications
113 matching grants · $61.8M · through 2022Largest: $3.2M to University of Alaska Anchorage — inclusive excellence 3 learning community
Largest: $330,000 to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY — to support the centre for transnational migration and social inclusion's research and policy advocacy activities promoting womens rights and social inclusion in south korea
Largest: $815,000 to FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — justice, equity, & inclusion
Largest: $390,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNI OF CALIFORNIA- BERKELEY — for a joint initiative to explore inclusion in global development research
Foundation for Inclusive Religious EducationKansas City, MOCharity · may take applications
78 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $80,001 to St Michael the Archangel — to support inclusive education for children with special needs.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
64 matching grants · $19.6M · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to PROMISE54 — expand tools, data-informed reports and case studies to accurately describe and measure the state of diversity, equity and inclusion within the education field while also enabling …
Largest: $15,000 to Center for Economic Inclusion — to acquire and expand growth & justice's products and research as that organization sunsets
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
76 matching grants · $7.4M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — to support phase one of the harris school's inclusive economy lab housing stability study.
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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 →