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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 “persistence”
Where the money went
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $323,220 to MOTT HAVEN-PORT MORRIS COMMUNITY LAND STEWARTS INC — change capital fund - change capital fund the change capital fund (ccf) is a collaboration of philanthropic foundations and financial institutions that pool funds to invest in comm…
Woodward Hines Education FoundationJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $135,766 to UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI — to improve/increase retention, persistence and completion of mississippi students.
The Community Foundation of GreaterBirmingham, ALCharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $799,925 · through 2022Largest: $181,725 to COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — general support + persistent poverty + special programs
Largest: $134,123 to FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUS ENTERPRIS — 76965 increasing investment in rural regions of persistent poverty with policy, research, and narrative change efforts beyond typical financing approaches
Largest: $202,437 to American Indian College Fund — american indian and alaska native college students: building collaborative data capacity and investigating college access, persistence, and graduation success
Kipp FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $12.5M · through 2022Largest: $6.8M to KIPP NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS — school start-up, covid-19 assistance, college persistence, postsecondary match, career integration, postsecondary counseling collaborative, marketing
Largest: $25,000 to CHICAGO SCHOLARS — to support the operational and programmatic supports provided to nearly 5,300 scholars and alumni including scholar recruitment efforts, college access workshops, eight 1:1 counsel…
Largest: $200,000 to COMMON APPLICATION INC — to improve the equitable distribution of private scholarship dollars to increase college enrollment, persistence, and completion rates for low-income and students of color.
Largest: $100,000 to BIG SKY FILM PRODUCTIONS INC — for production of 'the gender project', a documentary film that follows activists and scholars who defy simplistic gender labels, and examine persistent binary notions of gender an…
Largest: $454,072 to WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC — diversity and persistence in plankton communities: linking models and observations of taxa and trait dynamics
Largest: $525,000 to Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania — testing behaviorally-informed social interventions to increase student persistence
Largest: $750,000 to JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC — in general support of its mission to provide compelling and actionable policy solutions to eradicate persistent and evolving barriers to the full freedom of black people in america
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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 →