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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 “look”
Where the money went
New York State United TeachersLatham, NYCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $403,478 · through 2024Largest: $29,500 to BRENTWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — take a look at teaching/community initiatives/social justice
Largest: $75,000 to LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — under its energy efficiencies and sustainability banner, brotherhood crusade looks to empower youth to lead the charge in establishing more environmntally-friendly schools and neig…
Largest: $50,000 to BREAKFREE EDUCATION — to support the iraa fellowship program, which provides skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals released under washington d.c.'s second look amendment act.
Largest: $132,158 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS — another look-investigating the relationships between nursing home architecture and health outcomes
Foundation for Individual Rights andPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $163,721 · through 2024Largest: $37,384 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (GRANTS) — support for study looking at how dei statements from different ideological points of view are evaluated.
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $96,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — to support look, listen and learn tv.
Largest: $35,000 to USHER'S NEW LOOK — support youth leadership work from usher's new look
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
6 matching grants · $896,436 · through 2024Largest: $223,218 to First Look Media Works Inc — in support of the if/then shorts program
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $39.1M · through 2024Largest: $28.4M to First Look Media Works Inc — arts & culture
Largest: $200,000 to WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — to expand stem biographies (particularly women and people of color in math & engineering) in wikipedia through instruction-led student research projects to include stem pioneers "w…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $370,600 · through 2022Largest: $232,100 to Chicagos Sunshine Enterprises Inc — general operating support, to support member organization participation in elevated chicago and related commitments and expenses, and to increase the racial equity capacity of the …
Largest: $185,000 to THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — core support for realizing sexual and reproductive justice's beyond criminalization project to explore comprehensive approaches that look beyond the penal system to address gender-…
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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 →