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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 “particular”
Where the money went
Jm Rubin FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL
183 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2024Largest: $263,250 to PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY — scholarship for the benefit of a particular student
Project Creating SpaceSkokie, ILCharity · may take applications
34 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $629,752 to Rebbe Talmid — financial support to enhance the teaching skills of educators at all levels, particularly those with adolescent-aged classrooms.
Largest: $170,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — project support to advance research and communications work to document and raise awareness of sentencing trends and to build consensus for solutions particularly to mitigate unnec…
Largest: $3.0M to THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — to support the foundations efforts to scale up their international programs and in particular, obama foundation leaders, scholars and fellows programs
Largest: $450,000 to MAKERERE UNIVERSITY — in support of its makerere institute of social research to build decolonization of knowledge in africa and in the african academy, particularly the impact of feminist histories and…
Jhpiego CorporationBaltimore, MDCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $5.5M · through 2024Largest: $634,447 to PROGRAM FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY (AKA PATH) — improve health outcomes for people living in urban areas, particularly focusing on women, and children and other vulnerable populations.
Largest: $54,000 to GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP — emergent learning community - advancing health equity in california: to support and grow a community of emergent learning practitioners, with a particular focus on health equity in…
Largest: $280,248 to OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — to research the impact of over-the-counter hormonal birth control pill and understand if and how over-the-counter access is changing contraceptive access and use, particularly amon…
Largest: $500,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — in support of a landscaping study on the application of data science to climate challenges, to mitigate climate change which impacts all but particularly the most disadvantaged com…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2022Largest: $500,000 to The Praxis Project Inc — support to enable national black food and justice alliance to build capacity for black agricultural organizations and black food sovereignty. in particular, funds are extended to n…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
8 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $305,000 to YOUTH LAW CENTER — to increase the impact of adolescent development research on child welfare policy and practice with particular attention to effective parenting of transitional aged youth
Largest: $450,000 to RESEARCH FOR ACTION INC — to support research for action inc's work to highlight and address existing disparities within pennsylvania's public education system, particularly allegheny county
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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 →