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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 “organisations”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.8M to WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH (WOAH) — agricultural development
Largest: $40,000 to UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND — core support for the society, work and politics institute to build a more inclusive and representative research team to take forward the organisation's work on inequality and justi…
Largest: $210,000 to Myanmar Now Ltd — support the investigative journalism organisation's business model.
Largest: $61,720 to NEW ECONOMY ORGANISERS NETWORK — for general support of a network providing training for campaigners, organisers and communications teams working across social movements
Largest: $450,000 to IPAS — for support of odas (organisation pour le dialogue pour l'avortement securise)
Largest: $450,000 to TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHO SOCIAL ORGANISATION — operating support; scaling violence prevention in uganda
Largest: $750,000 to BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION — to provide general support
Largest: $10,000 to BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — general purpose of charitable organisation
Largest: $250,000 to AL-HAQ HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION EUROPE — to support work on human rights, legal research, and advocacy in europe
Largest: $259,629 to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION — research on henipaviruses infection
Largest: $297,861 to INIVA — the grant shall be used to fund three key areas of the grantee's work over a three and a half year period ending in 2024. these three areas are cultural mapping and organisational …
Largest: $100,000 to ALLIANCE FOR CONSERVATION OF GREAT APES IN CENTRAL AFRICA — support for organisational and scientific development to a network of local civil society organisations active in the conservation of great apes across the congo basin.
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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 →