Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “migrants”
Where the money went
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
52 matching grants · $26.3M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to BROWN UNIVERSITY — to support research, analysis, and the development of a policy brief that will inform policies and programs aimed at integrating venezuelan refugees and migrants into the colombian…
Largest: $200,000 to THE NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — core support for the for ellis island initiative to coordinate local leaders to develop new, common-sense strategies for incorporating migrants into local economies and communicate…
Largest: $67,100 to MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD — for general support of a charity organizing in migrant communities to bring about equality of access to services including healthcare
Largest: $675,000 to NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — to organize vulnerable immigrant workers to avail themselves of a new federal policy that provides more protection for immigrant workers, and to advance justice for migrant workers…
World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task ForcePhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $42.0M · through 2023Largest: $10.6M to Regional Center for Border Health Inc — work with migrants encountered by dhs at the southern border through efsp cr23/hr23 program. wheat acts as the fiscal agent.
Largest: $432,000 to JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN — 79489 supporting justice for migrant women in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion
Largest: $1.2M to NAZARETH UNIVERSITY — support the social, emotional, and public health needs of migrant workers
Largest: $442,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — black lgbtqia migrant project - expanding power and health: to support a program designed to advocate for a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender no…
Largest: $40,000 to YIHONG JULIE MAO — to support a project to research surveillance technologies used in migrant prosecutions, develop strategies to challenge the use of these technologies by federal and local police, …
Largest: $30,000 to COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL — toward program expenses of the migrant protection and reintegration program at casa alianza honduras for returned honduran at-risk migrant youth and their families.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
11 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $400,000 to NATIONAL MIGRANT AND SEASONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION — increase covid-19 vaccine access and uptake among migrant and seasonal farmworker families by leveraging the migrant and seasonal head start infrastructure and partnerships to diss…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $13.5M · through 2022Largest: $344,900 to Illinois Cooalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights — general operating support / support of 2022 gala (no tickets or tangible benefits). support for daca scholarships; support for current migrant needs. general operating support. to …
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →