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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 “institutionalized”
Where the money went
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
27 matching grants · $9.1M · through 2024Largest: $900,000 to JURITRUST CENTRE FOR SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION LTDGTE — for a legacy project to consolidate and institutionalize criminal justice reform in nigeria
Largest: $400,000 to THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE SECRETARIAT — to identify mechanisms to engage communities in a just energy transition and to institutionalize this engagement in eiti practices
Largest: $228,823 to COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — to continue to promote and support the professionalization and institutionalization of community engagement manager in scientific societies and large-scale research collaborations
Largest: $500,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — luskin school of public affairs - promoting youth well-being: to transform higher education and the training pipeline for scholars and youth at universities and feeder institutions…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
4 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2024Largest: $890,000 to SOLSTICE INSTITUTE LLC — to conduct a baseline in lira, share key results with stakeholders including government and implementing organizations, and scale the lira approach to institutionalize mwater as th…
Vera Institute of JusticeBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2024Largest: $2.2M to ACTIVATING CHANGE — to end victimization, criminalization, incarceration, and institutionalization of people with disabilities and deaf people.
Largest: $25,000 to HEARTS ACROSS ROMANIA — to improve the quality of life for institutionalized children in romania
Largest: $85,000 to Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles — bambara nut farmer research network, institutionalizing farmer-researcher cooperation to increase research relevance and positive impacts for female farmers
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
4 matching grants · $532,780 · through 2021Largest: $175,000 to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — improve the economic security among low-income families, particularly people of color, by targeting key policies and practices that institutionalize the racial wealth gap and worki…
The Cleveland FoundationCleveland, OHCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2023Largest: $877,549 to CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — growing the it pipeline and institutionalizing computer science education pathways
Largest: $3.5M to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, transl…
Largest: $7,000 to THE ALEPH INSTITUTE — to assist and care for the wellbeing of members of specific populations that are isolated from the regular community: u.s. military personnel , prisoners, and people institutionali…
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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 →