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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 “instructors”
Where the money went
Largest: $171,135 to UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON — maddie's shelter medicine research fellow, clinical instructor and elective
Teamwork USA Education CorporationPalm Beach Gardens, FLCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $115,896 · through 2024Largest: $9,995 to THE CONSERVATORY SCHOOL NPB — music instructor
Largest: $40,061 to CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA — to provide support with salary and benefits for the recovery retention specialist and the community-based instructor employed at the catholic charities community center of huntingt…
The Whas Crusade for ChildrenLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $75,500 · through 2023Largest: $8,000 to THE REATH CENTER INC — $8,000 for scholarships, instructor salaries and rider helmets (not to exceed amounts requested for each line item.)
Largest: $25,000 to SMILES Inc — to assist with expenses of horse care for 22 therapy horses, and the compensation of certified therapeutic riding instructors
Largest: $10,000 to COURAGEOUS SAILING — instructors' salaries
Largest: $15,000 to Reach South — funding the operation of a christian education course including facility rental fees books and materials instructor expenses and etc.
Largest: $12,500 to LAURA KRILLIC — isr instructor training
Largest: $75,000 to WINSTON-SALEM PROFESSIONAL TENNIS INC — to promote tennis in all our communities by directing clinics, tournaments, training/educating instructors an sponsoring youth and adult programs.
Largest: $5,000 to TUPPER ARTS — used to pay for a program instructor and supplies.
Stratford FoundationNeedham, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $170,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Nashoba Learning Group — training for new instructors to teach children with autism.
Largest: $407,680 to BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — this grant will support blue ridge community college foundations efforts to increase the percentage of first-generation, bipoc, and/or rural early childhood education (ece) student…
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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 →