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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 “past”
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Burton a Zipser and Sandra D ZipserFarmington Hills, MI
65 matching grants · $598,708 · through 2025Largest: $20,000 to DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS (THE) — to support research, performance, preservation of musical pieces, promotion and related activities in the areas of american music including neglected works of the past.
Largest: $3,000 to SANDRA ZALMAN — 2024 fund for past fellow - cycle 2
Largest: $1,500 to TAMISHA TORRES WALKER — to conduct research of current and past movements for social change and develop a toolkit to educate and support groups in their future efforts to achieve social justice
Largest: $20,000 to MARIE ELIZABETH ELIZABETH GRVALOS — grvalos, marie (independent scholar) "political geologies past and present: ontology, knowledge, and affect"
Largest: $47,000 to CHEBEAGUE ISLAND HISTORICAL — to research and record the past and present history of chebeague island
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $725,553 · through 2022Largest: $273,000 to KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS — multiple grants: to assist in establishing and supporting public health councils in the garment manufacturing, grocery retail, and restaurant sectors, provide outreach, education a…
Masonic Home of MissouriColumbia, MOCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $102,052 · through 2023Largest: $23,190 to NORTH COUNTY R-1 — assisted approx 280 children by providing funds for their backpack program and paying past due school lunch balances.
Largest: $275,000 to CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — core support for the forge: organizing strategy and practice, an online journal focused on documenting learning from community organizing past and present
Largest: $194,625 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — to develop and use novel emulators to simulate extreme weather events in past climates
Largest: $802,780 to AMIKIDS INC DBA AMIKIDS TAMPA — since 1971, amikids tampa has been dedicated to helping kids discover the potential within them, transform their lives and strengthen our community. located in tampa, florida, amik…
Largest: $10,000 to IVEY RAE HERREN — ivey herren, daughter of keith herren, managing director in kennedy wilsons multifamily group, is attending law school at american university beginning the 2022 fall semester. the …
Mickey Corcoran Scholarship Fund a Delaware Unincorporated Nonprofit AssnOradell, NJ
9 matching grants · $27,000 · through 2024Largest: $3,000 to EMILY HOLZER — grant for past achievements
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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 →