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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 “jackets”
Where the money went
Largest: $45,000 to BLUE JACKET INC — financial wellness
Columbus Blue Jackets FoundationColumbus, OHCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $145,344 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to OHIO AAA BLUE JACKETS — grant - youth hockey
Largest: $350,000 to COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION — research and advancements in the field of medicine
Detroit Employment Solutions CorporationDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $447,267 to JACKETS FOR JOBS — subcontractor
Largest: $24,103 to Various Student Athletes — team athletic jackets
Largest: $250,000 to BLUE JACKET — charitable, educational, scientific
Largest: $100,360 to COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION — corporate donation
Tongs Charity FoundationSan Francisco, CA
2 matching grants · $902,617 · through 2025Largest: $595,683 to CHINA VOLUNTARY GROUP — donation of winter jackets to the china voluntary group to help distribute jackets to the children and elderly of china in need.
Largest: $36,995 to ashin sandana — humanitarian- built homes for the poor build bridges and road bought rice for the poor paid for urgent surgeries- breast cancer hysterectomy kidney stone gallbladder baby delivery …
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group ReturnColumbus, OHCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $95,000 · through 2024Largest: $35,000 to CITY YEAR COLUMBUS — whole school whole child grant & red jacket bash sponsorship
Largest: $32,000 to BLUE JACKET INC — general operations
Largest: $15,000 to BLUE JACKET INC — blue jacket academy
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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 →