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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 “intermediaries”
Where the money went
Jobs for the FutureBoston, MACharity · may take applications
57 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2023Largest: $244,559 to ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC — to support of gates v&l intermediaries project
Largest: $1.5M to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — to support the start-up and on-going operations of a new regional, ceo-led workforce intermediary in southeast michigan.
Largest: $130,500 to World Arts West — to investigate the characteristics, strengths, needs, and interests of a sample of grassroots, culturally specific dance groups, and how community-based intermediary organizations …
Largest: $1.9M to WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — this grant provides project support and regranting funds to co.act detroit to act as the grantmaking intermediary for kresge innovative projects: detroit round 8.
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to COMMUNITIES RISE — nonprofit sector-intermediaries 2024-2025
CenterlinkFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $320,629 · through 2023Largest: $49,902 to CENTER ON HALSTED — engage in outreach, education and awareness activities to explain and promote the national institutes of health all of us research program inviting people across the u.s. to help b…
Movement Strategy CenterOakland, CACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $118,500 to RAINIER VALLEY CORPS — the equitable intermediaries fund-grant
Minnesota Council On FoundationsSaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2022Largest: $150,000 to Youthprise — to support nonprofit intermediaries re-granting public dollars
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
10 matching grants · $9.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.3M to BRILLIANT CORNERS — to expand its operating capacity to serve as a larger fiscal intermediary in the homelessness sector in los angeles county
Largest: $3.6M to GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — intermediaries pilot project
The Collective BlueprintMemphis, TNCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $280,000 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS — partnership in the memphis workforce intermediary project
University of Hawaii FoundationHonolulu, HICharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $756,564 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to VIBRANT HAWAI'I — grant to implement the work-based-learning intermediary statewide expansion project
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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 →