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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 “optimizing”
Where the money went
United States Energy FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
110 matching grants · $45.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.8M to FRESH ENERGY — to promote education and analysis to advance energy optimization. to support education and outreach to build a clean energy future.
Largest: $825,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)
Largest: $900,000 to RUTGERS U FDN — 75084 launching the nj healthy kids initiative to provide leadership in identifying biological/social factors that optimize children's metabolic health
E Kneale Dockstader FoundationWest Grove, PACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $195,000 · through 2022Largest: $20,000 to BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE — to promote and engage in charitable, scientific, and educational activitiesto enhance and optimize the environment surrounding.
Largest: $247,500 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — deciphering delirium characteristics, impact, and pathophysiology to optimize recovery following geriatric trauma (decipher)
Largest: $3.8M to INATURALIST — to enable inaturalist to realize its potential as a global scientific and conservation sensor by 2030, harnessing data from its user community and optimizing advances in machine le…
AlliancechicagoChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $659,303 · through 2023Largest: $208,460 to FRIEND HEALTH — clinical directors network grant, research engagement and partnerships in reproductive and maternal health outcomes (repro), optimizing patient navigation for perinatal care, the c…
Largest: $797,851 to BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — proactive optimization of infliximab using a pharmacokinetic dashboard versus standard of care in patients with crohns disease: the optimize trial
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
8 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — advance racial equity-focused research to educate policy leaders and practitioners to cultivate health and education opportunities that optimize black children's wellbeing and abil…
Largest: $400,000 to JACARANDA HEALTH — to optimize prompts ai infrastructure and integrate multilingual llms to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes in kenya and sub-saharan africa
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $837,140 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Efficient Surgical Apps Inc — jotlogs' innovation is a unique software-as-a-service product that optimizes clinical documentation using advanced machine learning. our user-friendly platform allows healthcare pr…
Largest: $326,354 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to optimize, scale, and study the social science prediction platform, an online resource for collecting and cataloguing expert forecasts about the results of social science experim…
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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 →