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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 “laura”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,000 to LEE LAURA — fellowship stipend
Largest: $48,405 to California State University-San Ber — scholarships for ivan flores ($2,350), juan gonzales montejo ($7,000), krystal landeros ($2,500), vanessa lopez ($14,750), azim nadvi ($15,669), samantha spencer ($1,667), and laur…
Largest: $82,494 to LAURA FINDEISS - NATIONAL ACAD OF S — 79667 robert wood johnson foundation health policy fellows -- laura findeiss, md
Largest: $62,113 to LAURA BISONO MEDINA — educational scholarship
Largest: $6,000 to LAURA ROHMANN — general semester scholarship
Largest: $19,075 to LAURA MORAN — moran, laura (independent scholar) "sociality of the story: harnessing the transformative power of storytelling through ethnographic exchanges among refugee youth"
Largest: $6.0M to University of Washington Foundation — the laura ellen and robert muglia family foundation endowed chair in transdisciplinary pain medicine & the laura ellen and robert muglia family foundation endowed chair for orthopa…
Largest: $35,594 to LAURA MARTIN — scholarship grants for undergraduate study
Community West FoundationWestlake, OHCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $311,717 · through 2025Largest: $110,300 to THE CITY MISSION — grant # 25.30 - laura's home, community impact grant - laura's home, donor advised grants, grants with donor restrictions, and presidential grants
Largest: $28,334 to LAURA POWER — school scholarship
Walker Area Community FoundationJasper, ALCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $91,500 · through 2025Largest: $15,000 to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — support for the laura & david ulz engineering scholarship at iowa state university
Largest: $5,000 to LAURA KIRSHENBAUM — educational scholarship
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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 →