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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 “negative”
Where the money went
Largest: $55,000 to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY — to support dr. anindita das in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 scialog conference on neg…
Largest: $295,000 to CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — youth organize! california - building power for community health: to support work that develops youth leaders as community health researchers to advance campaigns led by black and …
Central Maine Growth CouncilWaterville, MECharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $460,850 · through 2023Largest: $49,000 to Maine Plywood USA — economic recovery implementation grant program - a state of maine grant program funded by slfrf to help newer and underserved business established after 01/01/2020, located in kenn…
Largest: $175,000 to FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC — to support momcares, a project of the grantee, to carry out its mission to provide doula care to underserved women who are at risk of a negative birth outcome or have already exper…
Largest: $61,806 to CLOEE COOPER — to develop a podcast to educate the public about communities of people negatively impacted by far-right and paramilitary-aligned sheriffs
Largest: $100,000 to CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — for china esg research institute to conduct esg policy and standard research, and to ameliorate negative impacts of development through providing guidelines for implementing projec…
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $530,000 to Defendify — defendify, inc. response plan due to negative economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic
Hope Enterprise CorporationJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $75,590 · through 2024Largest: $14,246 to CAPITAL CITY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION LLC — black owned businesses negatively impacted by covid
Largest: $96,244 to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — hyperbolic geodesic flows without negative curvature
Largest: $200,000 to Louisiana Center for Children's Rights — support for fy24 strategic storytelling: developing positive counternarratives to combat the public's negative perception surrounding black youth
Largest: $60,000 to DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — for triple negative breast cancer research
Largest: $190,164 to INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MINORIT — 79553 examining how implicit bias and discrimination negatively impact the provision of healthcare for african-american women 18 to 44 in mississippi
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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 →