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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 “instituition”
Where the money went
Aharon Sofer Memorial FundLakewood, NJCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $114,617 · through 2024Largest: $50,600 to YESHIVA BAIS ISAAC ZVI — support of charitable instituition
Kol YehudaBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $151,720 · through 2025Largest: $65,000 to YESHIVA TAL CHAIM — support of charitable instituition
Jewish Education Center of ClevelandCleveland Hts, OHCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $145,180 · through 2024Largest: $102,698 to Congregation Mishkan Or — funded positions, school program grants, congreagation enrishment, instituitional stipends retreat, early childhood development and shoresh grants.
PflagWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $77,500 · through 2023Largest: $17,500 to EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUITE INC — contribution to equality florida to support c3-qualified florida equality florida x pflag safe advocacy & community project, installment 2 of 4
Largest: $3,000 to OHEL SIMCHA — support instituition charity purpose
Fred R Martin FoundationEl Dorado Hills, CA
2 matching grants · $8,000 · through 2023Largest: $4,000 to OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH E4 — a platform for developing new models of critique, an experimental school and research instituite devoted to work on major contemporary questions of pressing concern and global impo…
Largest: $15,000 to The Schechter Instituites — to fund charitable activities
Largest: $15,000 to SYRIA INSTITUITE — general operating support
Largest: $5,000 to UT MCCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — educational instituition
Largest: $3,600 to EVEN LACHAIM INSTITUITIONS FOUNDATION — general charitable, religious and educational purposes
Largest: $135,431 to OSTERREICHISCHE GALERIE BELVEDERE(ACADEMIC INSTITUITION) — expenses, transportation, crating, installation and insurance to exhibit the art work of louise bourgeois titled the "cell(the last climb)" at the belevdere galerie
Largest: $20,376 to VON BRAUN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY — funding for planetarium, observatory, & ada facilities improvements & instituitional capacity building as part of the first phase to reinvigorate the von braun astronomical society…
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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 →