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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 “materials”
Where the money went
Largest: $450,000 to Trustees of Princeton University — in support of scientific research by dr. leslie schoop to explore the synthesis of layered magnetic materials, correlated topological materials, and novel two-dimensional materials…
Children IncorporatedNorth Chesterfield, VACharity · may take applications
288 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $25,258 to SPARTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — provides basic and health related needs such as clothing, shoes, food; educational needs such as materials and suppliesprovides basic and health related needs such as clothing, sho…
Largest: $15,382 to MORENO-HERNANDEZ EMILY — materials grants, pd grants, snhu, summer stipends
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
67 matching grants · $934,984 · through 2024Largest: $53,240 to CT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (GARNER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION CORRIGAN COR — the cross mini-grant is used to start a smart recovery meeting for teens or young adults who use substances, an alternative peer group sober social events and activities for the sa…
The Recycling PartnershipWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
117 matching grants · $15.4M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to TULSARECYCLE AND TRANSFER (TRT) — grant to support post-fire mrf rebuild improved material capture
Largest: $525,000 to MANGO MATERIALS INC — ocean stewardship and research
Sustainable Manufacturing InnovationWest Henrietta, NYCharity · may take applications
27 matching grants · $11.2M · through 2024Largest: $1.7M to ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — materials science research, and personnel
Largest: $285,673 to UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS — merging machine and human intelligence for energy materials research
Center for Bridging CulturesMcLean, VACharity · may take applications
44 matching grants · $757,473 · through 2025Largest: $84,785 to Learn Yu Wen Inc — cross-cultural chinese language education grants aim to support k-12 schools to establish or enhance preexisting chinese language teaching programs. the grants can be used for teac…
The Whas Crusade for ChildrenLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2023Largest: $51,000 to ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLE ARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE — $51,000.00 for any item on grant list (flexible desks and workspaces, chairs and flexible seating, sensory, movement, and weighted materials, supplemental items, sound systems, and…
Largest: $64,500 to REAL LIFE CHURCH — material and spiritual support
Largest: $65,000 to VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — to support the preservation of original source materials on social welfare history and the exploration of networking similar collections for digital scholarship
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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 →