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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 “involvement”
Where the money went
Flow FoundationWinstonsalem, NC
129 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Winston Starts — community involvement programs
Largest: $14,000 to LORAIN COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT JUSTICE CENTER — support for stipends for system involved individuals to be involved and inform a community collaborative for system change
Largest: $34,699 to BREWTON AREA YMCA — community/county involvement
Largest: $36,000 to JOHN AND LINDA SHEPARD — assistance to men and women involved in christian ministry. tuition assistance
Largest: $60,000 to THANK YOU LIFE — to support organizations involved with human services, education, and the environment
Largest: $500,000 to PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — provide safe housing and services to homeless or justice-involved individuals
Largest: $1.0M to YALE UNIVERSITY — to support scholarship involving health markets, insurance premiums, bad actors, and state-level interactions.
Largest: $5,000 to POINT SOURCE YOUTH INC — to support the involvement of youth with lived experience in the national symposium. point source youth is hosting its annual symposium in baltimore for the first time and will bri…
Largest: $90,000 to 911 DAY — community involvement grant
Largest: $175,000 to NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW — improving community health for justice-involved youth: to improve the health outcomes of justice-involved youth and students in alternative education and juvenile justice settings …
Largest: $68,850 to MILLERSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT — community involvement
Largest: $10,000 to CALIFORNIA SYSTEM-INVOLVED BAR ASSOCIATION — for project support of the california system-involved bar association conference and to provide stipends for formerly incarcerated students' travel and lodging expenses to attend 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 →