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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.
9 funders with a record of paying for “lightweight”
Where the money went
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $44,500 · through 2022Largest: $19,500 to Cornell University Foundation — support for college of engineering, $5000: support for department of landscape architecture; $5000: support for men's lightweight crew; $2500: annual fund, general operating suppor…
Largest: $2,000 to Trustees of the University of — support lightweight and
Ews FoundationPennington, NJ
2 matching grants · $90,000 · through 2023Largest: $45,000 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF — sprint lightweight football
Largest: $3,500 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — the penn fund, the engineering annual giving fund, the iraj zandi fellowship fund, the penn libraries fund, the lightweight rowing fund
Largest: $50,000 to OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION — to support the maintenance of lightweight data packaging standards and software in order to reduce the frictions experienced in the acquisition, sharing, use, and reuse of research…
Largest: $23,000 to OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — to provide a simple, open, lightweight path for collectives and communities to operate through a 501c3 entity
Forging Industry Educational andIndependence, OHCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $21,000 · through 2022Largest: $21,000 to UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — cost-effective lightweight complex-shaped structural components through forging
Largest: $15,000 to STE CURE — cure bionics, an affordable 3d printed and lightweight myoelectric prosthesis
Largest: $5,000 to BOSTON UNIVERSITY — women's lightweight rowing program
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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 →