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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 “message”
Where the money went
Largest: $23,000 to BROCK CARTER — promote healthy, hopeful, and positive messaging to college and university students
Largest: $300,000 to FRENCH AFRICIAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — give aid and gospel message to needy
Largest: $1.7M to CORNELL U — 79754 developing rapidly responsive community-engaged research on media-messaging and narrative-change strategies to promote health and racial equity
Largest: $850,244 to FRESNO BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES — developing community center health messaging via communication infrastructure: to promote health messaging by developing a community center communication infrastructure in the cent…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
20 matching grants · $6.8M · through 2023Largest: $1.2M to Equal Access International — to promote accountability messaging using behavior change approaches.
Largest: $7,500 to ALPHA MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — promote the salvation message through the gospel message.
Largest: $300,000 to VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — for its narrative change work, messaging justice, that uses public opinion research, tested messages, and stories to build consensus that safety and justice are possibleand that co…
Largest: $41,250 to GATEWAY CHURCH OF VISALIA — payment to support the message of christianity
Berean CallBend, ORCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $93,525 · through 2024Largest: $9,000 to REASONS FOR HOPE — promote missions message
Largest: $62,464 to TRINITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD INC — promote the salvation message
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
9 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2022Largest: $350,000 to GMMB INC — support health advocates to promote and expand health care coverage for kids and families through formative communications research, message testing, and technical support
Largest: $39,900 to Health Strategies of New Hampshire — to ensure effective messaging on welcoming, racial justice and equity in new hampshire that resonates with granite staters across ideologies and demographics by conducting qualitat…
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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 →