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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 “mesoamerican”
Where the money went
Largest: $250,000 to MESOAMERICAN REEF FUND — general program support for improving the health and resilience of the mesoamerican reef 2023-2025
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational FundNew Orleans, LACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $295,550 · through 2022Largest: $70,645 to MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — subcontract grant award
Largest: $50,000 to Mesoamerican Initiative of WHRDs (IM-Defensoras) — strengthening networks of mesoamerican women human rights defenders
Largest: $415,000 to ASOCIACION DE COMUNIDADES FORESTALES DE PETEN — core support to strengthen the mesoamerican alliance of peoples and forests (ampb), and project support for institutional strengthening of the ampb
Largest: $20,000 to CIELO — mesoamerican permaculture institute (imap)
Largest: $15,000 to MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (MDI) — community participation in a carbon removal and validation program to restore forest habitat on coffee farms in the headwaters of the yoro biological corridor
Largest: $48,000 to RARE INC — sustainable coastal fisheries and resilient coastal communities in the mesoamerican reef
Largest: $15,000 to REWILD — mesoamerican alliance of peoples and forests
The Oak Hill FundCharlottesville, VA
1 matching grant · $160,000 · through 2023Largest: $160,000 to MESOAMERICAN REEF FUND (MAR) — for the healthy reefs initiative: specifically, to 1) support agrra training and monitoring, 2) launch the 2024 reef report card, 3) convene 2023 regional partners meeting, 4) impr…
Largest: $200,000 to COLECTIVO META SC — to support colectivo meta's leadership within the mesoamerican resource hub initiative
Largest: $50,000 to GLOBAL INITIATIVE AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME — for its project the mesoamerican working group on security and democracy
Largest: $57,475 to Pueblo Unido PDX — to provide training and accreditation for mesoamerican indigenous interpreters to assist immigrants seeking a new home in oregon
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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 →