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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 “multiracial”
Where the money went
The Schott Foundation for PublicCambridge, MACharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2022Largest: $125,000 to SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — to support education justice alliance's work seeking to resist politically motivated attacks on critical race theory in order to advance an honest, accurate, and fully funded publi…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
11 matching grants · $3.8M · through 2022Largest: $588,512 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — build a global norm for bridging and belonging practices to advance a multiracial democracy through the development of a global network of leaders, sectors and practitioners and im…
Largest: $148,545 to JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCH OF PUB HLT — 79670 assessing the mental health of multiracial and multiethnic adults in the u.s. through improved data collection and analysis
Largest: $1.0M to PROTEUS FUND INC — core support for the rise together fund to support black, african, arab, middle eastern, muslim, and south asian (bamemsa) movements to build a just, inclusive, and multiracial dem…
Largest: $205,794 to University of California Berkley — race-conscious education policies and adaptive anti-discrimination in a divided, multiracial democracy
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2022Largest: $300,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — to support the metropolitan center for research on equity and the transformation of school's work in fight back, fight forward: organizing for strong public schools and multiracial…
Wellness Advocacy FundFulton, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $600,000 to America Votes — voter engagement & multiracial coalitions
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $660,000 to CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — program - for general operating support of a multilingual, multiracial collaborative's efforts to advance smart, community-first solutions for a thriving oakland. program - for gen…
Largest: $50,000 to For the Many — for the many is a grassroots, multiracial, intergenerational, and bi-lingual movement in rural upstate new york centering the needs of working-class people in multi-issue campaigns…
Largest: $200,000 to EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — for bay area power building research and support for the convening of funders; for the fund for multiracial democracy to support city of oakland leadership and community co-governa…
Largest: $1.5M to POWER CALIFORNIA — strengthening health in communities through narrative infrastructure: to help grow and strengthen the local-to-statewide narrative infrastructure and capacity of local partners in …
Largest: $2.0M to GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — to support the multiracial democracy project to advance proportional representation
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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 →

