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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 “outcomes”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to FRESNOLAND MEDIA — communicating environmental health equity issues for increased health outcomes: to increase the public awareness of environmental and health justice issues through communications s…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
245 matching grants · $74.2M · through 2022Largest: $68,185 to INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LA EDUCACION AC — improve learning outcomes of indigenous children in mathematics and reading comprehension by training both principals and teachers to build culturally relevant school improvement p…
Illinois Primary Health Care AssociationSpringfield, ILCharity · may take applications
168 matching grants · $30.4M · through 2024Largest: $73,764 to Knox County — to improve chronic disease outcomes among chc patients, improve health insurance marketplace enrollments, and improve covid education and vaccination rates.to improve chronic disea…
Largest: $1.0M to RAND CORPORATION — 80257 gun policy research: evaluating the role gun laws play in contributing to racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice outcomes
Largest: $70,000 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — to support an empirical study of the causal effect of pretrial electronic monitoring ("em") on defendants' outcomes, including pretrial misconduct, sentencing outcomes, post-trial …
Largest: $55.5M to CHARTER FUND INC (DBA CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND) — to improve outcomes for k-12 students in the u.s.
Largest: $1.7M to Southern Education Foundation Inc — to provide support for resources and training to school districts so they improve student outcomes through outcomes-based contracting with vendors of programs and products like tut…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
67 matching grants · $29.0M · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY — for the center for innovation through data intelligence to provide new york city graduation rates, education outcomes, and labor outcomes for high school and middle school students…
Beyond Sport FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
85 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $86,000 to DOC WAYNE YOUTH SERVICES INC — promote youth mental wellbeing and encourages youth to proactively take steps to prevent adverse mental health outcomes
Largest: $189,000 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — support follow-up outcomes study of adolescent alumni of cap tulsa
United Way of Greater CharlotteCharlotte, NCCharity · may take applications
60 matching grants · $12.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.9M to HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — program operating costrestricted program funding to achieve contracted outcomes
Largest: $891,762 to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES INC — providing coordinated care and capturing outcomes for students with t1d school nurse-led pilot project
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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 →