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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 “mirror”
Where the money went
Largest: $160,008 to UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — homological mirror symmetry
Largest: $330,205 to MIRROR GROUP LLC — 81633 continuing the deep evaluation, learning, and strategy partnership launched by the removing barriers to health equity research program
Largest: $29,999 to GRACE CHARITY — clinical research grant: mirrors rct (pilot phase): randomised controlled trial (rct) of robotic interval cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal …
Southern Nevada Painters Market RecoveryLas Vegas, NVCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $626,162 · through 2023Largest: $291,160 to QUANTUM GLASS & MIRROR INC - THROUGH IUPAT DC 16 — market recovery grant
Largest: $37,500 to CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — to support the mirrors health policy coverage which will raise awareness and deepen understanding of challenges and opportunities related to health care quality, affordability, acc…
Largest: $62,000 to CT MIRROR — to support community development
Institute for Nonprofit NewsBeverly Hills, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $93,720 · through 2024Largest: $32,360 to THE CONNECTICUT MIRROR — inn support - labs & columbia colla
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $22,000 · through 2022Largest: $8,000 to Man In the Mirror Inc — monthly support for the work of il-cc. support for mirror labs research and resource initiative. supporting the ministry work of tyler sutton, director (az-wcaz)
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $88,290 · through 2024Largest: $39,100 to Man in the Mirror — community development
Largest: $200,000 to COMMUNITY PARTNERS FBO MIRROR MEMOIRS — support for mirror memoirs
Tekeyan Cultural AssociationWatertown, MACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $951,159 · through 2023Largest: $671,466 to BAIKAR - ARMENIAN MIRROR SPECTATOR — support publication of armenian mirror-spectator newspaper
Largest: $125,000 to MIRROR IMAGE ARTS — thriving young people
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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 →

