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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 “mail”
Where the money went
National Council of the US Society ofMaryland Heights, MOCharity · may take applications
54 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $77,127 to DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — fop walk, fop grant, direct mail, systemic change, porticus
Pa Alliance ActionPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2024Largest: $450,000 to The Voter Project — support for early vote by mail mailer, vote by mail programming and voter education.
Largest: $300,000 to CIVIC NATION — vote lab, vote-by-mail campaign, when we all vote, united states of women latinx voter engagement.
Divine Child Alumni Association FoundationDearborn, MICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $94,666 · through 2025Largest: $42,786 to Church of the Divine Child-Divine Child High School — there were three separate payments made to or on behalf of the divine child high school. the first was for $20,000 to fund part of the tuition of certain students under the school'…
Southcoast Community FoundationNew Bedford, MACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $121,736 · through 2022Largest: $86,065 to UMASS - AMHERST — howland fund assistance grant to be paid in 4 equal installments on or before the first of the following mo's: january, april, july, october 2022, and mailed by community foundatio…
Largest: $235,350 to Greater Ohio Bleeding Disorder Foundation — support for dental program and educational newsletter printing, mailing, and postage costs
United Way of the LakeshoreMuskegon, MICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $382,995 · through 2024Largest: $148,179 to DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY — library book mailing
The Voter ProjectPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $167,898 · through 2024Largest: $75,148 to Promote the Vote — to support grantee's vote by mail program.
The Ben E Factor FoundationSt Martinville, LA
4 matching grants · $16,000 · through 2025Largest: $4,000 to THE MAIL BOX CLUB — bible correspondence education
Largest: $25,000 to National Anti-Vivisection Soc — to support the writing, design, printing, mailing and fulfillment of editions of animal action news magazine
Largest: $20,000 to VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — program support for voter registration, vote by mail, get out the vote
Largest: $20,000 to MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK — mail-a-mail - feeding rural montanan
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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 →