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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 “iris”
Where the money went
Largest: $38,972 to University of Houston — scholarships for amanda cabrera ($4,000), janine caducoy ($7,500), ximena cardoza ($1,000), james douglass ($5,000), cinthya flores ($650), genesis garay ($4,154), yarely garcia ($…
The Community Foundation for Greater NewNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $541,450 · through 2024Largest: $90,450 to IRIS - INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICE — general purposes, provision of material basic needs
Largest: $3.0M to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — core support for the creation of the international resource for impact and storytelling (iris), an external donor collaborative supporting a global-south moving-image storytelling …
Largest: $50,075 to University of St Thomas — the iris p. webre endowed scholarship fund
Louisiana Coalition Against DomesticBaton Rouge, LACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $763,426 to Iris Domestic Violence Center — direct support to domestic violence intervention providers through subcontracts.
Largest: $897,222 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — to provide the grantee's fiscally sponsored project, iris with support to undertake narrative and storytelling work and incubate new ideas on abuse of state security power
Chicken & Egg PicturesBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $512,500 to WALKING IRIS MEDIA — chicken and egg award
Church World ServiceElkhart, INCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $19.3M · through 2024Largest: $6.9M to INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES(IRIS) — service to the displaced
Food Bank for New York CityBronx, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $775,328 · through 2024Largest: $285,184 to IRIS HOUSE — program support
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
5 matching grants · $550,000 · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to WALKING IRIS MEDIA — in support of the operations of the asian american documentary network (a-doc)
Largest: $85,100 to THE IRIS NETWORK — general operating
Largest: $22,300 to FUNDACION ARCO IRIS — support for food to children and teenagers from the streets. see charitable statement attached.
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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 →