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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 “irrigation”
Where the money went
Bonneville Environmental FoundationPortland, ORCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $608,200 to SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION — fairmead groundwater resiliency project grant payment to sustainable conservation grant & manure subsurface drip irrigation ghg study & piloting manure subsurface drip irrigation s…
Largest: $1.0M to Colorado West Land Trust — to provide temporary earnest money for the organization to secure a purchase and sale agreement for the acquisition of 2,400 acres of irrigated farmland in mesa county's grand vall…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2023Largest: $4.0M to WALKER RIVER IRRIGATION DISTRICT — walker basin water leasing demonstration program
Northern Plains Potato Growers AssocEast Grand Forks, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $452,710 · through 2024Largest: $161,210 to NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY — research grants for the study of breeding, growing, and irrigation on potatoes.
Largest: $400,000 to United Nations World Food Programme — sugarcane cultivation model through clean energy and water saving irrigation in luxor
Largest: $4,000 to STEVENSVILLE WEST PARK DISTRICT — irrigation system
Largest: $383,803 to Kulana Quiam — helping war victims with food medical and shelter. aiding students with lunch meals for those who can't afford it. distributed us aid grant to irrigation project in algazeera
Oregon Environmental CouncilPortland, ORCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $85,305 · through 2022Largest: $28,941 to SWALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT — water conservation
Largest: $200,000 to Nature Conservancy - Arizona — support to pipe a portion of the eureka ditch above and through the yavapai-apache nation reservation and to implement an irrigation diversion dam redesign.
Dornick Hills Historical FoundationArdmore, OKCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $678,847 · through 2025Largest: $674,997 to DORNICK HILLS GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB — replace irrigation s
Trout UnlimitedArlington, VACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $708,000 · through 2024Largest: $408,000 to UINTA COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT — restore approximately 6,300 feet of the bear river with natural channel design restoration techniques and replace a failing irrigation diversion that inhibits fish migration.
Communities Foundation of OklahomaOklahoma City, OKCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $230,068 · through 2024Largest: $206,685 to GROOMS IRRIGATION CO — community development
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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 →