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12 funders with a record of paying for “narrative”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — core support for the narrative initiative, to edit, design, and distribute narrative strategy learning to a broad audiences of practitioners, funders, and researchers.
Largest: $300,000 to PROTEUS FUND INC — reframe - building the narrative power ecosystem to support health: to build the narrative power ecosystem by deploying training, research and strategic insights to power building …
Largest: $476,822 to ALIANZA AMERICAS — 81508 vcfc narrative grant to alianza americas: expanding the network's narrative-change capacity toward an equitable way of life for migrant communities
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
84 matching grants · $24.8M · through 2023Largest: $263,191 to EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER — build 30 future leaders and change narrative toward racial healing in sunflower county and beyond through supporting the development of a true historical narrative linked to leader…
Largest: $410,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — to support the narrative initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of the grantee, which helps social and racial justice movements leverage the power of narrative to achieve long-te…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
29 matching grants · $8.3M · through 2024Largest: $217,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — to support the housing narrative lab, a national effort to provide timely, research-based messaging to respond to harmful narratives about the causes and solutions to homelessness
Largest: $300,000 to Fair Count Inc — to advance narrative efforts through messaging research, strategic communications, and engagement
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $9.4M · through 2024Largest: $653,000 to NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — program - for general operating support to advance efforts to make the bay area a place where everyone has an affordable and stable home and can prosper, especially low-income and …
Largest: $71,500 to SAHAR AZIZ — to support research and convenings by a diverse set of academics and advocates seeking to better understand and combat racialized national security narratives that disproportionate…
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical EducationScranton, PACharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to The Wright Center Medical Group — see narratives
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $334,000 · through 2022Largest: $16,750 to WE WANT GREEN TOO — a. work directly with mejc and other energy democracy partners to develop and share an energy democracy narrative b. attend three core meetings about energy justice and democracy c…
Largest: $250,000 to FORWARD TOGETHER — this general operating grant supports forward together's mission to unite communities by amplifying the cultural strategy work of grassroots organizations, artists and cultural wor…
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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 →