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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 “mathematics”
Where the money went
Largest: $425,666 to NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS — distinguished visiting professorship in the dissemination of mathematics
Largest: $49,984 to MARK KOZEK — to support the research and writing of mathematics and storytelling: stories in print and on screen about mathematics, to be published by ak peters/crc press in 2024
Largest: $50,000 to AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY — further the interests of mathematical scholarship and research. promote mathematical research and its uses, encourage and promote the transmission of mathematical understandings an…
Largest: $1.2M to AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES — discovery and translational sciences; malaria; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $250,000 to SOCIAL IMPACT FUND — support charitable activities and programs that provide academic support, college scholarships and opportunities in steam education (science, technology, engineering, arts and math…
Renaissance Philanthropy FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2025Largest: $1.8M to The Learning Agency — to support projects that apply ai to mathematics
Largest: $50,000 to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois — on black family mathematics socialization during a crisis: studying black parental responses to remote mathematics teaching and learning during the covid-19 pandemic
Tang FoundationWalnut Creek, CA
8 matching grants · $167,474 · through 2025Largest: $50,000 to Brown University — support for applied mathematics education and research through brown university applied mathematics discretionary fund
Largest: $200,000 to SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — school of mathematics
Largest: $25,000 to Mathematics Education Trust CO NCTM — nctm (national council of teachers of mathematics) 501(c)(3) funds were gifted 12/15/2023 directed to the mathematics education trust to be distributed as scholarships to nctm memb…
Largest: $100,000 to MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — to name the dolciani mathematical center
Largest: $375,000 to KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THE PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS OF THE UNIVERSE AT THE UNIV — kavli institute for the physics and mathematics of the universe - phase i
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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 →