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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 “linear”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI — on linear processes and linear random fields with long memory/heavy tails
Largest: $759,890 to Johns Hopkins University — in support of the development of novel techniques for investigations of emergent properties of quantum materials using linear and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy.
Largest: $240,000 to FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC — to expand the high-speed internet connectivity along the entirety of the 10-mile linear park under miamis metrorail, the underline, by leveraging government support 1:4.
Largest: $36,700 to University of Illinois At Chicago — scholarships for cindy carbajal (2,500), hamza amin (5,000), jack beltran hernandez (1,000), jason yu (5,000), kaliah linear (5,000), lake crowell (5,000), lizbeth fernandez (5,000…
Largest: $60,000 to LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — for lankenau medical center linear accelerator
Gold Family Charitable TrustBriarcliff Manor, NY
3 matching grants · $159,747 · through 2024Largest: $59,747 to RAILS-TO-TRAILS — to preserve and transform unused rail corridors into linear parks
Largest: $5.2M to SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER — linear accelerators for the radiotherapy institute
Allina Health FoundationMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $8.9M · through 2024Largest: $670,301 to ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — funding for linear accelerator at united hospital
The Pokagon FundNew Buffalo, MI
2 matching grants · $320,000 · through 2024Largest: $213,333 to NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP — red arrow linear park- municipal funds
Largest: $7,500 to OLMSTED LINEAR PARK ALLIANCE — general operations grant
Largest: $500,000 to EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION — truebeam varian linear accelerator
Jefferson Community FoundationPort Hadlock, WACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $152,190 · through 2024Largest: $117,465 to JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — oncology linear accelerator
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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 →