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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.
5 funders with a record of paying for “peat”
Where the money went
Largest: $170,000 to BORNEO NATURE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — support for protection, restoration and sustainable management of wild ape habitat, protecting the orangutans and gibbons of the peat swamp forests of central kalimantan.
Largest: $15,000 to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — funds for singkil peat project
Largest: $2,000 to DYLAN PEAT — general academic scholarship - spring
Largest: $500,000 to THOUSAND CURRENTS — for clima fund in support of carbon emission reducing projects promoting clean energy and preserving old growth forests, marshes, mangroves and peat bogs
Southwest Michigan First CorpKalamazoo, MICharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $6,253 · through 2024Largest: $6,253 to PEAT'S ORIGINAL CIDER — industry 4.0 grant (medc)
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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 →