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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 “insight”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.8M to ID INSIGHT INC — inclusive financial systems
Largest: $300,000 to ID INSIGHT INC — for assessing and highlighting gender-specific conditions and impacts in id insight's projects
Largest: $4.0M to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — to sustain the institute, which will convene, support and provide accessible, actionable, nonpartisan insights to the stakeholders and institutions that design, operate, study and …
Largest: $3.8M to INATURALIST — to enable inaturalist to realize its potential as a global scientific and conservation sensor by 2030, harnessing data from its user community and optimizing advances in machine le…
Largest: $250,000 to AERIS INSIGHT — 80660 general operating support for aeris insight, 2023-2024
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
15 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2024Largest: $844,476 to Behavioral Insights (US) Inc — to provide behavioral insights technical support to nigerian organizations working to reduce corruption.
Largest: $2.5M to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — toward the costs of launching a research consortium to drive acceptance and uptake of covid-19 vaccination efforts and provide insights to counter health mis- and dis- information
Largest: $480,968 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — deep insights into microbial interactions through high-resolution observations and modeling
Largest: $750,000 to CLIMATE POLICY RADAR — to support cpr's development of ai tools for advanced climate policy analysis and global legislative insights.
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
11 matching grants · $4.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.4M to THINK OF US — to support the center for lived experience, a national research center integrating insights, data, and leadership of people with lived experience to redesign the child welfare syst…
Largest: $307,050 to NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC — to renew support for a postdoctoral fellowship program focused on the labor market consequences of an aging population and to support a set of research projects designed to provide…
Largest: $400,000 to University of Missouri MOREnet — missouri student equity insights
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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 →