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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 “interdisciplinary”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.5M to MINNESOTA U OF — 79917 continuing support for and evaluating the rwjf interdisciplinary research leaders program, 2022-2023
Largest: $2,037 to HELEN PALMER — 2023 interdisciplinary residency session iii, award letter 1 of 2
Largest: $4.9M to SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — to support an expansive interdisciplinary approach to critical data studies to address issues such as misinformation, disinformation, and data literacy
Largest: $364,406 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to establish an interdisciplinary research program on the social science of caregiving and build empirical and theoretical foundations for the cognitive economics of care
Largest: $700,000 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — core support for the just tech fellowship to advance justice & equity by transforming racial & gender power imbalances within the field of artificial intelligence; and advance inte…
Largest: $2.0M to ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH LEARNING AND INFERENCE INC — to nucleate and grow a strong and collaborative interdisciplinary field, which sits at the interface of health and artificial intelligence and facilitates identification of strateg…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
11 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to IMANI PERRY — macarthur foundation fellow award - interdisciplinary scholar and writer
Sage BionetworksSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $651,467 · through 2024Largest: $164,066 to Harvard Office of Sponsored Programs — multi-consortia coordinating center (mc2 center) for cancer biology: building interdisciplinary scientific communities, coordinating impactful resource sharing, and advancing cance…
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
8 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2024Largest: $359,999 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — black hole initiative: towards a center for interdisciplinary research, competing renewal
Largest: $684,500 to CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY — to support the creation of the interdisciplinary hub for the studies of the politics of the anthropocene
Largest: $266,004 to Metropolitan State University of Denver — centering trauma-informed practices (tip) to sustain tip knowledge and reduce secondary traumatic stress in novice teachers: an interdisciplinary research-practice partnership.
Largest: $566,577 to UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI — to support the growth of the institute for data science and computing, an interdisciplinary center of scholarship that enables data science research, application and education at t…
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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 →