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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 “perspectives”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH — for interdisciplinary research bridging civil society and academia in order to reduce violence against women and girls in public spaces and for core support to strengthen south asi…
Largest: $300,000 to NEW JERSEY POL PERSPECTIVE — 81149 general operating support for new jersey policy perspective, 2023-2024
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
20 matching grants · $10.5M · through 2024Largest: $6,460 to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA — adam green-act fellowship application: divine hiddenness in cross cultural perspective
Dream PartnershipCamp Hill, PACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $652,619 · through 2024Largest: $81,855 to PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG) — to provide inclusive education and offer students opportunities for global perspectives, interactive learning, and personal attention, through a welcoming and safe environment, ind…
Largest: $30,000 to BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — support for leveraging health research and pediatric perspectives to advance a permanently expanded and fully inclusive, monthly child tax credit
Largest: $500,000 to LEIDEN UNIVERSITY — to support the international institute for asian studies south-south-north initiative to create southern knowledge networks and foster equal inclusion of global south perspectives
Largest: $125,000 to NEW JERSEY POLICY PERSPECTIVE — to advance public policies that center communities of color and to advocate for a more equitable new jersey.
Largest: $276,458 to The Regents of the University of California — a cross-cultural study of culturally sustaining pedagogy in global perspective
Largest: $276,265 to UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — to study trust in ai from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, social and clinical psychology, computer science, and law, and to operationalize findings in a toolkit for use …
Largest: $19,300 to MARIA FLORENCIA BECERRA — becerra, maria (conicet) "exploring copper: local and global perspectives on the study of copper use, circulation and provenance in the pre-columbian southern andes."
Largest: $250,000 to CAUSA JUSTA JUST CAUSE — general operating support: to support an organization that works to keep community health and the perspectives of underserved residents at the forefront of neighborhood planning an…
Largest: $28,333 to K DARWICH — to create hader halal (with regard to presence) a multi-format project that includes a digital archive, series of public programs, publications, and exhibitions, that critically in…
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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 →