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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 “oceanography”
Where the money went
Largest: $600,000 to UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY — for application to the recruitment and/or research efforts within the global change program
Maine Community FoundationEllsworth, MECharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $519,560 to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — marine science & oceanography
Largest: $740,112 to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON — in support of continued seahawk-1 satellite operations to expand the scientific user base, validate its unique capabilities and advance research on coastal oceanography.
The San Diego FoundationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $19.8M · through 2024Largest: $19.7M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — student financial aid at uc san diego and scripps institution of oceanography
Sustainable SurfManhattan Beach, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $672,250 · through 2024Largest: $330,000 to SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY — for the purposes of testing multiple hypothesis of restoring kelp, incl. outplanting lab-grown juveniles and identifying if these more thermally-tolerant strains better survive a w…
Waitt FoundationNorth Sioux City, SD
3 matching grants · $978,869 · through 2023Largest: $344,708 to SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY — ocean conservation
Revive & RestoreSausalito, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $276,000 · through 2025Largest: $230,000 to SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY — grant extension for scientific research - act project
Largest: $10,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — ucsd scripps inst of oceanography (collections)
Largest: $160,000 to FUNDACION PUERTO DE IDEAS — includes national and international voices of thinkers, scientists, authors and artists, that will address, in a multidisciplinary language, investigations, ideas, initiatives and …
Largest: $30,000 to SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY — funds for discretionary use
Largest: $100,000 to Regents of the University of California at San Diego — to support research and evaluation of rocky reefs and technology development in the gulf of california at the scripps institution of oceanography
Largest: $350,000 to SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (UCSD) — support of the future oceans research aquarium at the ted and jean scripps marine conservation and technology facility at scripps institution of oceanography for the stedman conser…
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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 →