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12 funders with a record of paying for “mothers”
Where the money went
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
64 matching grants · $17.0M · through 2024Largest: $449,978 to ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — supply neonatal intensive care units with hospital grade breast pumps, create a pathway for social and technical support for mothers to utilize pumps and sustain breastfeeding and …
Martha Mertz FoundationVermontville, NY
43 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2025Largest: $115,000 to GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — programs for administering to unwed mothers
Largest: $188,750 to EXPECTANT MOTHER CARE — promote health & welfare of mothers, children, disabled, & clergy
Largest: $118,095 to BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — assistance to indigent and dysfunctional families, especially concerning infant and very young children in order to provide them with the support and assistance necessary to grow u…
Largest: $79,700 to MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY — toward expenses of the saving the lives of internally displaced mothers & children project, to expand and provide lifesaving health services and education in rural nw cameroon comm…
Healthy Start Coalition ofTampa, FLCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $22.0M · through 2024Largest: $2.9M to SUCCESS 4 KIDS & FAMILIES — to educate, promote positive birth outcomes, and protect the health and well-being of all mothers and children in hillsborough county
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
24 matching grants · $8.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.7M to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — for the international resource for impact and storytelling, a project of rockefeller philanthropy advisors, inc., to support a consortium of partners to enable young mothers and th…
Largest: $5,000 to MOTHER SETON HOUSE — program support
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2023Largest: $1.1M to Rush University Medical Center — the bross family fund for mothers receiving trauma based care, florence d hagenah endowed nursing scholarship fund, support for nursing school at rush, support for florence d hagen…
Largest: $10,000 to THREE RIVERS MOTHERS MILK BANK — to sponsor the mid-atlantic mothers' milk bank milkshake & cookies event on october 17, 2024
Largest: $200,000 to MOTHERING JUSTICE — 82292 supporting mothering justice's leadership approaches to foster holistic leadership development
West Virginia Pregnancy Center CoalitionCharleston, WVCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $206,829 to Women's Care Center — to reimburse for goods provided to mothers and babies
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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 →