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12 funders with a record of paying for “parameters”
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Lakeshore Community FoundationManitowoc, WICharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $274,343 · through 2025Largest: $32,100 to MANITOWOC COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER INC — $15,000 - unrestricted, $10,000 - donor's parameters in the accompanying grant letter, $7,100 - to support case management and advocacy for victims of abuse.
Largest: $394,737 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support the development of experimental techniques to dynamically induce quantum phases of matter in strongly interacting electron systems, and to study their evolution under ra…
Largest: $50,000 to AUSTRALIAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FOUNDATION INC — to help the organization in its initiative to bring together australian and american leaders to review and refine the parameters of the australian-american bilateral relationship.
The Community Foundation for Greater NewNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $50,000 · through 2024Largest: $34,000 to QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — to support the study of pollutants and other water quality parameters along the quinnipiac river from meriden (hanover pond) through north haven.
Largest: $8,400 to TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — inequalities in harmonic analysis and multi-parameter analysis
Largest: $10,000 to CATO INSTITUTE — civil liberties-seeks to broaden the parameter of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional american priciples of limited government, individual liberty, free …
Forging Industry Educational andIndependence, OHCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $23,307 · through 2022Largest: $16,199 to CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY — investigating the effect of processing variables and parameters
Largest: $552,000 to PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — high-parameter flow cytometry suite to enhance cancer immunotherapy research
National Council of Juvenile & FamilyReno, NVCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $11,362 · through 2023Largest: $11,362 to JUSTICE INNOVATION INC (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CENTER FOR COURT INNOVATION) — judicial engagement network (jen) - participate in the planning and staffing of one jen summit; participate in three jen summit planning calls; participate in quarterly project cal…
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
1 matching grant · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — to understand parameters that govern transcriptional adaptation to enable novel rna-based therapeutics
Largest: $450,000 to WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH — 82359 influencing the nature and parameters of a rapidly shifting debate on the care economy and the expiring provisions of the 2017 tax cuts and jobs act
Largest: $67,804 to THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE ON AGING — a one-year grant to educate georgian medical professionals on the benefits of medical cannabis for older adults, the legal parameters of its usage in georgia, and ways they can sup…
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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 →