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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 “laid”
Where the money went
Largest: $10,000 to ANDRE FOSTER — single father of 2 lost wife this year recently laid off and trying to find full time employement
Adray FoundationBloomfield Hills, MI
4 matching grants · $50,000 · through 2025Largest: $15,000 to TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — to help honor the sacrifice of first responders who laid down their lives to save others on september 11, 2001.
Largest: $244,470 to Improve your tomorrow — the life path for black and latino boys is often the same. they leave high school without graduating, struggle to find employment, commit a crime and then find themselves in jail. …
Largest: $5,000 to TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller who laid down his life to save others on 9/11/2001
Largest: $20,000 to TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller, who laid down his life to save others on september 11, 2001 and to honor our military and first responders.
Largest: $20,000 to TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — the mission of the stephen siller tunnel to towers foundation is to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller, who laid down his life to save others on september 11, 2001 w…
Largest: $10,000 to TUNNEL TO TOWERS — to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller who laid down his life to save others on september 11, 2001.
Wend IiBentonville, AR
2 matching grants · $500,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation — aurora public schools (aps) and children's hospital colorado will continue to move through the phases laid out in our pilot year to further develop a fully functioning, replicable …
Largest: $8,539 to Plainview Jewish Center Tzadakeh Fu — to feed the jewish community of people laid off due to covid 19 and needing assistance.
Largest: $5,000 to TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller, who laid down his life to save others on september 11, 2001.
Largest: $6,000 to STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — to honor the sacrifice of firefighter stephen siller who laid down his life to save others on september 11, 2001.
Salamone Family FoundationBonita Springs, FL
2 matching grants · $52,500 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — the mission of the stephen siller tunnel to towers foundation is to honor the sacrifice of fdny firefighter stephen siller, and all those who laid down their lives to save others o…
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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 →