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12 funders with a record of paying for “information”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,000 to COMMUNITY FDN OF NJ — 79330 allocating funding to local nj news and information organizations to improve access to healthcare information in underserved areas of the state
Largest: $279,000 to HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — for the department of economics to collect information and undertake studies on china's economic system and development finance and to share information and knowledge with global s…
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
150 matching grants · $44.7M · through 2024Largest: $327,500 to IL LEGAL AID ONLINE — to provide legal information to the public statewide via a website; to provide specialized legal information and technological expertise for people impacted by the criminlization o…
Largest: $800,000 to R STREET INSTITUTE — to provide renewed support to r street institute for nonpartisan technology policy research that can inform approaches to improve online information quality.
Largest: $88,126 to DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE — to provide information to inform the federal policy debate on removing snap benefits for people with criminal records.
Southeast Coastal Ocean ObservingCharleston, SCCharity · may take applications
129 matching grants · $18.4M · through 2024Largest: $744,260 to AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC — to further mission of providing ocean information to members and other parties
Largest: $100,000 to BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — supporting native health through trauma-informed programming: to build trauma-informed capacity to support native health in california.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
99 matching grants · $22.1M · through 2022Largest: $581,820 to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI — expand reporting and investigative journalism through building capacity, training, and networking of traditional and emerging newsrooms in mississippi on how to collect, report, an…
Indiana Youth InstituteIndianapolis, INCharity · may take applications
111 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $51,708 to STARFISH INITIATIVE — trauma-informed workplace grant & workplace grantojjdp stipend $21,708
American Parkinson Disease AssocStaten Island, NYCharity · may take applications
77 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2025Largest: $293,750 to UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM — information and referral - $100,000, medical research grant - $93,750 & medical research-advanced centers - $100,000
Largest: $200,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA — to promote a healthy information ecosystem using the african union (au) normative framework on freedom of expression and access to information by enhancing awareness of au instrume…
Largest: $210,000 to Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques — to support experimental demonstration of hybrid entanglement between many-particle quantum systems based on different physical platforms and subsequent teleportation of quantum inf…
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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 →