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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 “instead”
Where the money went
Largest: $7,000 to Show-Me Dinosaurs LLC — seed grants - purchased items for businesses who received a seed grant. instead of awarding cash, we purchase items that will help minority/women businesses generate income.
Largest: $150,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATI — to investigate the regulation of treg lymphatic tumor migration and the interaction among tregs, lymphatic endothelial cells, and tumors to develop strategies of delivering targete…
Largest: $10,000 to HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION — be a santa for a senior program
Largest: $175,000 to HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS — health instead of punishment program
St Paul Transportation ManagementSaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $25,000 · through 2024Largest: $9,000 to OUR STREETS MINNEAPOLIS — to support state level action, which is at the heart of the clean rides network strategy to build better communities by widening fewer highways and instead investing in transit, wa…
Largest: $82,000 to L MARIA RHODES — to train educators to connect undocumented students with legal representation and to write letters to judges for students with charges to be in school instead of in jail pre-trial
Largest: $58,946 to LARGER US LTD — for support of a "larger us" network, which seeks to build a "larger us" instead of a "them and us" through promoting agency, belonging and collective self-awareness among small gr…
Dakota Medical FoundationFargo, NDCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $45,372 · through 2023Largest: $33,982 to Great Plains Food Bank — provide health-related services by distributing food to the hungry instead of it going to waste
Special Operations Association FoundationAvon Park, FLCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $50,000 · through 2025Largest: $50,000 to SPECIAL OPERTIONS ASSOCIATION — support of the scholarship awards program. this donation is to help the dependents of current and former special operators and their families who have given so much in the defense …
Home Instead CharitiesOmaha, NECharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $57,000 · through 2023Largest: $57,000 to UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA — home instead charities gerontology scholarship fund
Hilarity for CharityLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $609,067 · through 2022Largest: $609,067 to HOME INSTEAD — to provide in home care relief for alzheimer's family caregivers
Largest: $25,000 to WINSLOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — winslow therapeutic riding center has been operating for 50 years serving the special needs community by providing mounted and unmounted equine-assisted activities and therapies fo…
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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 →