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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 “manuscripts”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY — malta study center
Occidental CollegeLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $328,933 · through 2024Largest: $98,710 to SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE — research partner assisting with conducting study protocols for in-home product use, developing survey instrument focus group materials, data analysis, conducting analytical testing…
Sofia'S HopeMiami, FLCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $359,296 · through 2025Largest: $105,000 to The Research Foundation for the State of New York — the purpose of this grant is to help fund research in pediatric cardio-oncology, specifically to provide funding support for a clinical research coordinator/medical editor who will…
Largest: $660,000 to THE B SHAPELL'S FAMILY MANUSCRIPT AMUTA RA — research of historical documents
Largest: $125,000 to THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS — to support the digitization of new testament manuscripts in england and the purchase of digital transitions rainbow narrowband multispecial imaging system
Largest: $85,000 to NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — to collect and preserve books, manuscripts and objects pertaining to newport's history.
Trust Uw Amy Lowell 10th ClauseBoston, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2023Largest: $1.0M to Harvard College — for the purchase of books and manuscripts to maintain, increase, and enhance the "amy lowell collection" of the houghton library.
Largest: $30,000 to HILL MUSEUM AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY — general operating fund
Largest: $13,104 to WILLY MUTUNGA — for continued research and writing of a manuscript entitled, is revolutionary transformation possible under transformative constitutions in the global south
CommunitygivingSt Cloud, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $606,875 · through 2024Largest: $525,616 to HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY — gen/oper support
Largest: $15,000 to A MINNER JONES — to complete a manuscript to document and educatie the public about baltimores urban, intertribal american indian community, as well as a guide for researching disappeared and erase…
Largest: $7,000 to HILLL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY — general operating
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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 →