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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.
10 funders with a record of paying for “overdue”
Where the money went
Largest: $9,418 to Linda McDermott — overdue rent and electric bill
Largest: $45,000 to LINCOLN HEALTH — financial aid for patients with overdue bills
Largest: $6,000 to GIRL SCOUTS OF CONNECTICUT INC — create long overdue changes in the community
Association of Public HealthBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $294,672 · through 2022Largest: $294,672 to PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISE — improve timeliness of newborn screening specimens. the subrecipient will implement electronic laboratory reporting (elr) capabilities to be able to report results for all laborator…
School District 95 Educational FoundationLake Zurich, ILCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $71,396 · through 2023Largest: $71,396 to Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 — fund author visits to middle school and elementary schools, fund weight room grant, fund payment toward overdue lunch fees for under-resourced students, fund establishing a house s…
Largest: $70,000 to RED HOOK INITIATIVE — to train and support multilingual (english, cantonese, mandarin, and spanish) local leaders in their fully fund red hook houses campaign, which is advocating for physical infrastru…
Newark Area Welfare CommitteeNewark, DECharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $19,871 · through 2025Largest: $19,871 to CITY OF NEWARK — to pay for overdue utilitity bills of citizens of the city
Largest: $5,907 to DOMINIQUE JOHNSON — to help with overdue bills and groceries for a family of 6. husband recently lost job.
Largest: $6,750 to MAPLEWOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY — operational--overdue book program
Largest: $2,500 to HEANG RUBIN — funds in support of heang rubin's project, overdue: boston chinatown's struggle to reclaim libraryr
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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 →