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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 “nano”
Where the money went
United States Endowment for ForestryGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2024Largest: $584,308 to OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY — p3 nano research to commericalization
Largest: $461,640 to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — in support of scientific research aimed at exploring exotic quantum states in atomically thin materials using a suite of nano-optical experimental techniques.
Activate GlobalBerkeley, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $349,371 · through 2024Largest: $206,000 to HIT NANO INC — technology development funds and fellowship living stipends
Largest: $496,228 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — to support precision live single cell nano-surgery for revealing proteome dynamics
Largest: $240,000 to Northwestern University — endowment fund willens center for nano oncology
Largest: $15,000 to OUR BISWAS — nano finance program
Maydan Charitable TrustLos Altos Hills, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $264,035 · through 2024Largest: $176,400 to American Technion Society — research innovation in micro-nano
Largest: $124,770 to BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV — nano-diamond spatial interferometer
Largest: $66,000 to Colorado School of Mines — getting on the grid: parallel nano-crystallography for large-scale data generation
Largest: $45,000 to OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — 3d printing of nano-mineralized and pre-vascularized scaffolds for vertical bone augmentation
Largest: $100,000 to CREDIT RATING ANALYTICS (PTY) LTD — to support piloting the nano, micro, small and medium enterprise (nmsme) grading system in nigeria, conducting research to test and refine the system and to increase awareness of t…
Mount Zion Health FundSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $40,000 · through 2023Largest: $40,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — rap cancer research - pi: tomi nano
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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 →