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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 “multimedia”
Where the money went
Largest: $87,237 to MAIN ST — to support small minority businesses and organizations with multimedia and digital services
Largest: $25,000 to CONCORD UNIVERSITY — educational - for support of library multimedia services for students
Largest: $900,000 to ALLIED MEDIA PROJS — 79728 supporting a multimedia research and narrative project about family care to advance a culture of health in black and native american communities
Largest: $247,000 to ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC — support presenter of new music and multimedia
Largest: $75,000 to BARTRAM'S GARDEN - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR WURD RADIO — to expand and deepen wurd radio's multimedia coverage and conversations around environmental racism and its direct impact on philadelphias black community with a lens towards actio…
Largest: $13,000 to XYZA DELA CRUZ BACANI — to continue research and production on a new story about muslim and christian children attending school together in southern philippines, and to exhibit the resulting photography a…
Largest: $100,000 to WQED MULTIMEDIA — education & workforce
Largest: $60,000 to SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC — to support a multimedia program that amplifies the voices of youth to create a more compassionate, connected, and civically engaged community
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $111,150 · through 2023Largest: $61,500 to Facets-Multimedia Incorporated — general operating support, john a. bross scholarship fund, to support the chicago alliance of film festivals.
Largest: $802,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — to support the further development of, and sustainability planning for, ravenspace, a platform for the publication of multimedia books in native american and indigenous studies
Largest: $35,000 to QENDRA E ARTEVE VIZUELE MULTIMEDIA — for general support
The Pittsburgh FoundationPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $588,424 · through 2024Largest: $255,384 to WQED MULTIMEDIA — media and comms
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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 →