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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 “markers”
Where the money went
Largest: $66,775 to THE LAFAYETTE TRAIL INC — monthly marker special interest grant, 18 lafayette trail markers
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $164,653 · through 2024Largest: $45,769 to CARVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for projects focusing on museum infrastructure, cultural landscape documentation, and interpretive research for the pondexter tombstone marker
Largest: $500,000 to LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING OFFICE OF HISTORIC RESOURCES — to support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight los angeles diverse historic places
Arkansas Community FoundationLittle Rock, ARCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $140,122 · through 2024Largest: $22,204 to EVERGREEN CEMETERY FAYETTEVILLE AR - 2417 E BRISTOL PLACE FAYETTEVILLE A — to provide for the maintenance, repair and restoration of monuments, headstones and grave markers of historical or architectural significance at the fayetteville evergreen cemetery…
Largest: $1.6M to AMC MEDICAL RESEARCH BV — a prospective randomized study of treatment selection based on epigenetic markers in crohns disease: omicrohn
Largest: $250,000 to CHANNEL MARKER FOUNDATION — primary project
Largest: $25,000 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — tdp-43 marker research
Largest: $214,449 to UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX — identifying early markers of autistic spectrum disorder in naturalistic motor behavior using high-frequency sampling
The Caroline FoundationDenton, MDCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $90,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to CHANNEL MARKER — medication adherence technology services
OcloNew York, NY
2 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2023Largest: $1.8M to IDEAS CHARITABLE PROGRAM — the mission of ideas is to strengthen, empower, and ensure excellence and sustainability within the jewish day school sector in the united states. ideas will operate an 18-month pi…
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $574,984 · through 2025Largest: $320,033 to DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — utility of blood based markers for predicting aria and its course in mci and ad subjects undergoing routine clinical treatment with amyloid-directed antibodies
The Rhode Island Community FoundationProvidence, RICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $49,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to NEWPORT MIDDLE PASSAGE PORT MARKER PROJECT — art - arts and culture (primary)
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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 →