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12 funders with a record of paying for “index”
Where the money went
Largest: $675,000 to BRANDEIS U HELLER SCH FOR SOC POL — 79284 supporting data, research, and users related to the child opportunity index 3.0 to draw attention to and catalyze action on equitable neighborhoods
Largest: $50,000 to GRID ALTERNATIVES - CITY OF MADERA — assist in providing solar energy installation and cost savings to 10 low income homeowners in the city of madera. the city of madera experiences an air quality index signifcantly h…
Largest: $348,000 to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — development of an intestinal ultrasound index and a histopathology index for stricturing small bowel crohns disease
Largest: $400,000 to DISINFORMATION INDEX INC — core support for the global disinformation index's u.s. work to improve civic information integrity in major public ai models and increase transparency in the digital advertising s…
Largest: $802,165 to AH DATALYTICS — to build and develop the real-time crime index ("rtci"), an infrastructure for regularly collecting data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies and creating a publicly accessibl…
Largest: $1.0M to ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) — to support further development of the oecd's ai index to guide and inform policy across member countries.
Institute for Nonprofit NewsBeverly Hills, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $223,500 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to LOOKOUT PUBLICATION NFP — inn support - labs & index award
Largest: $165,000 to EDUCATION ANALYTICS INC — support for needs index 2.0 collaborative project for oakland usd
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
6 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2022Largest: $2.0M to BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — create child opportunity index 3.0 with communities as the primary user group through conducting racial equity-focused research and knowledge sharing; innovative outreach, user eng…
Largest: $739,238 to Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania — to support duckworth lab to develop and validate the necessities index, an assessment of the conditions required for adolescents to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically; …
Largest: $150,000 to ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE CENTER FOR CLIMATE FINANCE — investment driven decarbonization of utility sector (rmi enact index)
Largest: $1.0M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — to develop and implement a wildfire resilience index for the north american west.
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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 →