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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 “invitational”
Where the money went
CenterlinkFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $416,229 · through 2024Largest: $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…
Bvm Capacity Building InstituteAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $399,300 · through 2024Largest: $45,000 to Oakland Forward — warrant clinic ( invitation only)
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2022Largest: $1.2M to Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $700,000 for the access for every child fund and $300,000 to help establish an early stage clinical trials unit as outlined in dr. shanley's may 2022 proposal, general operating su…
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $141,000 · through 2024Largest: $21,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — "critical minded, a fiscally sponsored project of allied media projects, has awarded a project support grant for $21,000 to arts + public life (apl)--an initiative of the universit…
Largest: $27,094 to UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — 14th annual celanese foundation golf invitational benefiting uw of metropolitan dallas
Largest: $1.2M to University of Washington — john a. hartford center of gerontological nursing excellence (invitation to submit)
Largest: $100,000 to BAS FISHER INVITATIONAL — to promote both the creation of art and the sponsorship of arts investigation and innovation in miami.
Durham Sports CommissionDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $55,000 · through 2024Largest: $17,000 to DURHAM STRIDERS YOUTH ASSOCIATION — blunt east coast invitational grant
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $75,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to KATHY WHITWORTH FOUNDATION — for the kathy whitworth invitational - no benefits
Largest: $40,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — to support the 8th annual fundamentals of quantum materials winter school and workshop, a week-long program to be held in january 2025, with about forty selected students/postdocs …
Largest: $65,000 to PARK CHURCH — to support the cause of inviting and inspiring people to follow jesus.
Largest: $105,500 to WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP — donation for wyndham championship foundation & wyndham invitational junior-am team
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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 →