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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 “necessary”
Where the money went
Largest: $2,711 to ALYSSA WILLIAMSON — support for necessary medical procedures and supplies
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
53 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to Arizona State University — grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, stem-based inventions and gai…
Largest: $24,310 to TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS — to further necessary charitable activities
Momentum ConservationPortland, MECharity · may take applications
47 matching grants · $660,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to Coastal Mountains Land Trust — to strengthen land trusts throughout maine with resources necessary to grow and succeed
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of AlaBirmingham, ALCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $3.7M · through 2024Largest: $850,000 to O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER AT UAB — the foundation sponsors several events for the purpose of raising funds for breast cancer research. these funds are contributed to the o'neal comprehensive cancer center at uab. th…
The Angel FundHelena, MTCharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $545,789 · through 2024Largest: $25,678 to HELENA MIDDLE SCHOOL — provide children needing assistance with the necessary school items
Largest: $118,095 to BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — assistance to indigent and dysfunctional families, especially concerning infant and very young children in order to provide them with the support and assistance necessary to grow u…
Ubc CaresGrapevine, TX
19 matching grants · $45,290 · through 2025Largest: $5,000 to Kelly Ferdinandsen — assist covered members with the cost of medically necessary expenses
Largest: $200,000 to VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE — to support this organizations rapid re-housing program that works to ensure youth have the skills and resources necessary to sustain stable housing and engage as stable community m…
Largest: $138,483 to INDIVIDUAL GRANTEES OF GET WELL STA — grants for necessary mental health treatment, doctor visits, dental procedures, prescription drugs,medical devices, personal hygiene services, nutritional guidance, exercise progra…
Largest: $500,000 to GFPB Inc — to support the creation of an incubator whereby entrepreneurs can operate in a marketable space, grow to become an independent merchant, and work to obtain the capital necessary fo…
Largest: $1.0M to NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP INC — 82062 continuing support for amplify 2.0 in strengthening conditions necessary for historically marginalized people to build decisionmaking power
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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 →