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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 “interact”
Where the money went
Largest: $95,928 to UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG — cbiomes scholar award: interaction networks of phototroph-heterotroph microbial communities
Largest: $394,737 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support the development of experimental techniques to dynamically induce quantum phases of matter in strongly interacting electron systems, and to study their evolution under ra…
Dream PartnershipCamp Hill, PACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $652,619 · through 2024Largest: $81,855 to PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG) — to provide inclusive education and offer students opportunities for global perspectives, interactive learning, and personal attention, through a welcoming and safe environment, ind…
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $3.7M · through 2025Largest: $115,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — nic: investigation of ad risk alleles in astrocytes focus on cholesterol transport and microglia interactions
Largest: $25,000 to Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts — for general operating support - interact center for the visual and performing arts advances the professional and artistic practice of minnesota artists with disabilities
Largest: $1.0M to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support scholarship involving health markets, insurance premiums, bad actors, and state-level interactions.
Largest: $154,982 to Princeton U — 74955 studying how genes and environment interact
Largest: $250,000 to HOPEPHL — create literacy-rich spaces that promote early learning and adult-child interactions in family shelters.
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
10 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $350,000 to LET'S BREAKTHROUGH INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH — to produce a multi-city, interactive experience to educate the public on the ideas found in the usc civic media fellowship anthology, we are civic media
Largest: $75,000 to INTERACTION AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INTERNATIONAL ACTION INC — research and learning opportunities
Largest: $1.8M to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — to support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of freedom colonies
Largest: $125,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — to support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies
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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 →