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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 “nonfiction”
Where the money went
Largest: $40,000 to LEAH BROAD — whiting creative nonfiction grant
Largest: $75,000 to CASSANDRA L QUAVE — healthspan: a work of narrative nonfiction
Largest: $50,000 to KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - ADAM HIGGINBO — funding of annual literary awards that honors authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature.
Largest: $310,000 to INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION (DBA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOC — for the international documentary association nonfiction access initiative to support disabled documentary filmmakers through data collection, a field survey and the design and lau…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
5 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $690,000 to Sundance Institute — in support of the sundance institute nonfiction storytelling project.
Largest: $70,000 to FUND FOR THE GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS — fellowship in either fiction, general nonfiction, or biography for a woman or a person of color
Largest: $30,000 to CREATIVE NONFICTION FOUNDATION — for true story magazine
Largest: $4,600 to MOUNTAINFILM LTD — showcase nonfiction stores about environmental, culutural, climbing, political and social justice issues in telluride
Largest: $650,000 to THE VIDEO CONSORTIUM INC — to launch templatized local nonfiction video hubs, a professionalized events arm, and scalable digital tools to solidify video as a more durable future component of local journalis…
Largest: $4,000 to SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL — ramping up our nonfiction/ real-world literature at sms library
Largest: $477,000 to CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL GOOD — logan nonfiction program
Largest: $300,000 to KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — the grant will establish and fund "the peng zhao & cherry chen fund for aapi voices at kartemquin," an initiative that provides support for the next generation of aapi nonfiction s…
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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 →