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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 “liberal”
Where the money went
Largest: $562,500 to LIBERATION VENTURES — 82687 supporting liberation ventures in helping strengthen the reparations field and establish an inclusive, multiracial democracy --transfer grant
Largest: $175,000 to North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — transfer pathways to the liberal arts initiative
Largest: $691,202 to BRATISLAVA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS — advancing liberal arts education in europe and providing funding for stipends for faculty research
Largest: $150,000 to ASIAN AMERICAN LIBERATION NETWORK — general operating support: to support an organization that builds power in the asian american community by advancing health and racial equity, cross cultural solidarity and collect…
Largest: $100,000 to BARD COLLEGE BERLIN A LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY GGMB — to strengthen liberal democracy in germany by providing new ideas and approaches on liberal democratic policy responses in relation to the rise of right wing authoritarianism
Largest: $200,000 to POLICYLINK — core support for the liberation in a generation project for policy development, capacity training to open policy windows and co-create with workers a transformative policy platform…
Solidaire NetworkOakland, CACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $869,300 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to National Association for Multicultural Education — movement support of coalition for liberated ethnic studies
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2024Largest: $349,347 to PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — advised - for use as to benefit. as the governing board of the university shall determine. undergraduate liberal arts students attending pacific university for cultural activities …
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2022Largest: $1.6M to DePaul University — support for school of accountancy /ledger and quill, general operating support, support for school of music student scholarship, joan and jeff ferrill expendable innovation fund, s…
Largest: $2,500 to LIBERAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION — scholarship banquet
Largest: $7,200 to TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS — temple university college of liberal arts student aid fund
Logan Square Neighborhood AssociationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $136,500 · through 2021Largest: $14,000 to Brighton Park Neighborhood Council — beyond the classroom grant and organizing for liberation fellowship
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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 →