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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 “internet”
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Largest: $700,000 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — core support for shorenstein's technology and social change project and core support for the public interest internet initiative to field-build across multiple sectors of internet …
Largest: $293,700 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — to improve the understanding of how internet and social media technologies affect social, organizational and political behaviors by leveraging the research, training and disseminat…
Internet SocietyFredericksburg, VACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to People Centered Internet Inc — strengthening the internet
Largest: $1,000 to THE INTERNET SOCIETY (ON BEHALF OF INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE) — the internet society supports and promotes the development of the internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich peoples lives, and a force for good in society…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
8 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to Universitt Zrich — in support of the internet use & society division within the department of communications and media research to study older adults' internet uses
Largest: $500,000 to ASPIRATION — to support the critical internet studies institute, a project of the grantee, in the development of a public-interest oriented internet
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $673,000 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to GRACE IN ACTION — increase internet access in underserved neighborhoods. increase internet adoption through digital literacy programming. train and develop residents as digital stewards. strengthen …
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and NumbersLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $700,602 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to Internet Society — sponsorship of middle east and adjoining countries school on internet governance (meac-sig)
National Congress of Parents & TeachersAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $132,500 · through 2024Largest: $6,750 to Lynbrook North PTA — pta connected: be internet awesome - internet safety grant
Largest: $600,000 to ASPIRATION — for support of the critical internet studies institute
Largest: $188,342 to ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION — to support the research, development, and launch of how to fix the internet, an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared towards a lay audience
Ncta - the Internet & TelevisionWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $413,000 · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to MULTICULTURAL MEDIA TELECOM AND INTERNET COUNCIL — mmtc 2024 general support
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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 →