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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 “lessons”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to GIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL (GSSGC) — gssgcs 191-acre skyland ranch camp in the san jacinto mountains is used as a backdrop for inspiring k-12th grade students to discover, connect, and take action to preserve and prot…
Largest: $750,000 to THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (AKA CHATHAM HOUSE) — core support for the global governance centre ?to address gaps in global governance through precise examination of historic successes and shortcomings and through mapping lessons t…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
14 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED — to develop research case studies of best practices and lessons learned on youth voice activities and their relationship to advocacy outcomes
Largest: $487,172 to PUBLIC AGENDA — 79799 developing lessons learned from work in creating a sustainable, inclusive, research-informed engagement infrastructure -- phase 4
Baton Rouge Area FoundationBaton Rouge, LACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $64,250 to YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA — general support, support preparation for pre-k learning center, pre-k scholarships, support swimming lessons
Audacious FoundationSanta Barbara, CA
13 matching grants · $96,853 · through 2025Largest: $12,000 to Santa Maria Valley YMCA — preschool swim lessons for 30 children, plus swim lessons for guadalupe or santa maria school children in 2026
Largest: $290,000 to University of Arkansas — to expand the uofa arts integration pilot to additional schools and teachers in nwa and to create a toolkit of arts integration curricula and lesson plans for educators across arka…
Largest: $50,000 to COVERED CALIFORNIA — promoting lessons of california's implementation of the affordable care act: to support a convening of health systems and community stakeholders to celebrate the 10-year anniversar…
Largest: $300,000 to Hopewell Fund — in support of the establishment of the academic data science alliance, a community of academic data science practitioners, educators, and leaders who share knowledge, ideas, and le…
Largest: $274,290 to Broadway SF — to fund the constitution project, which includes the following: the development of the curriculum and materials of the project which is a one-week lesson plan designed to deepen st…
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $422,771 to HOMEBASE — homeless and housing incentive program technical assistance; improving medi-cal redeterminations for people experiencing homelessness; lessons learned on statewide initiatives to a…
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $246,996 to NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH — education read write & code- rwc builds upon lessons learned from readnyc, uwnycs decade-long literacy program in mott haven in the bronx, and adds new elements to help prepare chi…
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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 →