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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 “leprosy”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS — support of charitable activities
Largest: $30,000 to EMBRACE A VILLAGE — to fund medical care for the leprosy community in tamil nadu, india
Largest: $4,000 to MISSION TO CHILDREN LEPROSY FUND — to care for and cultivate christ like character in children
Largest: $32,780 to AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS — general operating
Largest: $63,000 to AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS — charitable contribution - provides spiritual and medical assistance to people with leprosy
American Leprosy MissionsGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $339,407 · through 2022Largest: $267,635 to BIOMEME INC — catalyze use of new tools and approaches to end leprosy
Family Health InternationalDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2023Largest: $434,291 to American Leprosy Missions — global health
Largest: $5,000 to RISING STAR OUTREACH — to help educate and treat leprosy afflicted families in india.
Largest: $17,521 to AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS — unrestricted general
Largest: $25,000 to American Leprosy Missions — general charitable purpose
Largest: $7,000 to HARVEST MISSIONS — an organization involved in various activities and ministries such as church planting, mobile gospel team, bible school, literature ministry, leprosy ministry, children's ministry,…
Largest: $8,500 to AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS — to advance charitable mission
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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 →