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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 “multicultural”
Where the money went
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — communities of opportunity systems and policy change 2023-2024
Largest: $85,000 to UPRISE COLLECTIVE — support operations and expand multiculturally-led and serving programs designed by and for bipoc, lgbtq+, and disability communities in multnomah, clackamas, and washington countie…
Leonard & Beryl Buck FoundationSaint Louis, MOCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN — continue to provide organizational support to multicultural center of marin
United Way of Greater HoustonHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $880,498 · through 2024Largest: $365,734 to Alliance for Multicultural Community Services — financial stability
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $660,000 to COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — program - to support the multicultural fellowship alumni investment fund. program - to support affordable housing advocacy. program - to support one day at a time. program - for ge…
Largest: $157,500 to MULTICULTURAL COALITION — immigrant services
National Council of the US Society ofMaryland Heights, MOCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $310,324 · through 2022Largest: $76,639 to THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT — fop walk, fop grant, direct mail, systemic change, multicultural
Largest: $300,000 to SANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS INC — general operating support: to support an organization that promotes multicultural social justice, nonviolence and economic equity through cultural healing, civic leadership, youth …
United Way of King CountySeattle, WACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $323,142 to OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — programatic investment
Inatai FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $557,904 to OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — general operating support
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $600,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to MOSAIC MULTICULTURAL FOUNDATION — healthy individuals and communities
Largest: $140,000 to OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — funding for general charitable operations
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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 →