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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 “mixed”
Where the money went
Largest: $233,519 to University of Washington — unpacking the effects of dual credit coursework on college opportunity and equity: a mixed-methods comparative study of different course delivery contexts
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2022Largest: $515,000 to Trend Community Development Corporation — for support of advancing etod pilot project - food matters; mixed-use development category.
Largest: $200,000 to IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION - IRCO — other, mixed use
Largest: $200,000 to MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY — this general operating grant will support mixed blood theatre and its participation in the creative practice cohort.
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $207,864 · through 2023Largest: $5,500 to FLYING SHEPHERD RANCH — as follows: a) training for tucker, an australian shepherd - $1980 b) eye surgery for jax, a german shepherd mix - $1,930.21 c) wound care and heartworm treatment for blackie, a mi…
Largest: $89,813 to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — welcoming central american newcomer immigrant students: a mixed-methods study of school-community partnerships to reduce inequalities
Largest: $100,000 to Mixed Blood Theatre Company — for project and general operating support
Largest: $1.0M to REBUILD METRO INC — to support greenmount park apartments, a mixed-income and mixed-use community that will create 113 new affordable apartments and over 5,000 square feet of new retail space in johns…
Largest: $100,000 to COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — to conduct surveys of salt lake county, utah; davidson county, tennessee; and jefferson county, kentucky defendants and to conduct a mixed methods study to examine the reasons for …
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII — positivity in algebraic combinatorics: schubert polynomials, hessenberg varieties, and mixed eulerian numbers
Largest: $300,000 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — to support a comprehensive mixed-methods study to examine the links between school-based over-punishment, mental health outcomes, and academic disparities of black youth.
Largest: $85,000 to Possibility Labs — support the second phase of creating a cooperatively owned mixed use development by residents in npu v
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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 →