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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 “polls”
Where the money went
Civic NationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
103 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $67,500 to Iota Phi Theta Foundation Inc — wwav grant for party at the polls events
Largest: $640,750 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — to transform the student population and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus. for the institute for governmental studies project at uc berkeley to conduct polling and host …
AarpWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $440,000 to Regents of the University of Michigan — support for the national poll on healthy aging
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $251,335 to GOODWIN SIMON STRATEGIC RESEARCH INC — calaim listening: implementer focus groups and polling phase 1; calaim implementors opinion research phase 2
Open Society Action FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to POWER TO THE POLLS INC — to support the grantee's social welfare activities
Largest: $350,000 to (366) THE EDUCATION TRUST — education: to support public opinion polling and dissemination on education in the state of massachusetts
Second House CollaborativeLincoln, NECharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $177,780 · through 2024Largest: $78,890 to NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE — winner take all polling, legal fund grant
Largest: $200,000 to New Venture Fund — for core support of the civic responsibility project, which incubates power the polls, an initiative to recruit a new generation of poll workers
Largest: $50,000 to MARCH TO THE POLLS — expanding student civic engagement and expanding student voter empowerment program
P Street ProjectWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $58,000 · through 2024Largest: $22,000 to The Sixteen Thirty Fund — public advocacy: produce events polling and messaging around economic ideas.
Unite AmericaDenver, COCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $485,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to SECURE DEMOCRACY — to support the grantee's core programmatic activities, including legislative advocacy & infrastructure; corporate outreach & cultivation; conservative influencers & validators enga…
Largest: $200,000 to AFRICA POLLING INSTITUTE GTELTD — for analysis on disability policies and violence against women and girls with disability in nigeria
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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 →