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12 funders with a record of paying for “interpretive”
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Largest: $400,000 to CULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE INC — to support planning and research for interpretation at oaxacan cultural heritage sites, and construction of an interpretive center
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $45,769 to CARVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for projects focusing on museum infrastructure, cultural landscape documentation, and interpretive research for the pondexter tombstone marker
Largest: $30,000 to American Friends of Capodimonte — interpretive fellowships
Largest: $825,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)
Largest: $743,500 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — research in interpretability
Largest: $10,000 to GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — to provide support for the educational and research institution created to preserve and interpret georgia history and the state's role in american history through a variety of educ…
Largest: $150,000 to MAXVILLE HERITAGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER — for general operating support
Largest: $951,960 to GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — tracking & interpretation of single-cell characteristics in cd patients
Intrepid Museum FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $178,978 · through 2023Largest: $76,121 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — to develop a free, digital publication titled sensory tools for interpreting historic sites
Largest: $1.3M to PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — help museum in its efforts to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of visual arts as a source of education.
Largest: $48,000 to OREGON HEALTH CARE INTERPRETERS ASSOCIATION — provide operations and interpreter training programs to increase the number of certified interpreters from communities of color or immigrant/refugee communities throughout oregon
Quad Cities Golf Classic CharitableEast Moline, ILCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $392,414 · through 2024Largest: $105,739 to JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — to preserve, interpret and share the unique history of jackson county, iowa
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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 →