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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 “inequities”
Where the money went
Largest: $654,211 to UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND — core support for the southern centre for inequality studies to study and address inequality in the global south, and core support for its institutional strengthening
Largest: $132,531 to YANICA F FAUSTIN - ELON U COL OF AR — 81527 investigating maternal health inequities by nativity to address severe maternal morbidity inequities for black birthing persons across the diaspora
Largest: $25,000 to CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — orange county grantmakers - addressing racial and health inequities: to deepen the collective understanding among orange county funders about the historical and cultural context fo…
Largest: $144,445 to GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — reducing inequities in postsecondary debt and repayment through a multi-sector research-practice partnership
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
76 matching grants · $28.0M · through 2022Largest: $126,287 to REGENTS OF NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY — provide core support for the borderlands and ethnic studies research center to address inequities in prek-12 schools by developing culturally responsive place-based lessons so teac…
Largest: $54,100 to SEWA - AIFW INC — to help fight inequalities, injustice and intolerance in all its forms
Largest: $800,000 to EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION — to support work to transform the global financial system, incorporate nature and address inequalities, and benefit marginalized and vulnerable countries and communities as they fac…
Largest: $300,000 to UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND — to support the southern centre for inequality studies research on critical minerals and industrial policy for a just transition in africa
Largest: $88,568 to University of Southern California — the segregation lab: building research capacity for addressing inequality
The Concrete Rose Community FoundationMenlo Park, CACharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $814,586 · through 2023Largest: $193,500 to COLOR STACK — to address the impact of systemic inequality
Largest: $81,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — multiparameter harmonic analysis, helgason-fourier analysis on hyperbolic and symmetric spaces and sharp geometric and functional inequalities
Largest: $75,000 to SOJOURNERS — support faith-based education and mobilization to build an economy which addresses underlying racial inequities and health and economic inequities
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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 →