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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 “mote”
Where the money went
The Community Foundation of Sarasota CoSarasota, FLCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2024Largest: $402,756 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM INC — capital purchases, general support, program support, scholarship support
Largest: $91,533 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — to support collaborative research: pacsp tools: epics: explainable ai driven individual photo-identification & tracking for cost-effective conservation study
Largest: $200,000 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — general/unrestricted
Largest: $90,000 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — mote's coral reef research and restoration initiative: saving the reef and amplifying success
Mote Marine FoundationSarasota, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $7.3M · through 2023Largest: $6.4M to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — support scientific & education programs
Largest: $21,000 to Mote Marine — second of two year pledge--mote marine creation of teacher development
The Nature ConservancyArlington, VACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $401,058 · through 2024Largest: $127,567 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — conservation activities
Largest: $165,309 to Mote Marine Laboratory — to fund the directorship of the red tide institute. mote recruited dr. cynthia heil, a widely respected red tide algal bloom expert, to lead the newly created institute.
Largest: $10,000 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AND AQUARIUM — mote marine laboratory is advancing research-based solutions to ensure our oceans can heal and thrive. help us put leading-edge marine science and ocean conservation into action.
Largest: $17,500 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — mote science education aquarium (mote sea)
Largest: $125,000 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY — next generation science: postdoctoral fellows program
Manatee Community FoundationBradenton, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $944,348 · through 2024Largest: $411,462 to MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM INC — general support, program support
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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 →