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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.
11 funders with a record of paying for “polymer”
Where the money went
Largest: $353,505 to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — to understand the emergence of unconventional properties in a class of open shell conjugated polymers, including intrinsic electrical conductivity, ground state paramagnetism, and …
Largest: $100,000 to Amherst College — exploring the synthesis and mechanism of single-site and cationic group v catalysts for the production of biodegradable polymers
Largest: $237,862 to ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION — metabolic interactions during marine polymer breakdown
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $458,333 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to Poseidon Research LLC — poseidon research, llc seeks a $25,000 matching award through the mti range 1 program to finish the development of a series of novel absorbent materials. poseidon will use the awar…
Largest: $28,983 to DR KIAN KUN YAP — advancing in-situ tribometry for sustainable high-performance polymer development
Largest: $460,300 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to develop magnetic-digital-polymers as an abiotic platform for exploring life-like behaviors
Greater Akron ChamberAkron, OHCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $15,500 · through 2024Largest: $6,440 to AKRON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — polymer sector partnership for polymer palooza
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and DesignEmeryville, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $251,531 · through 2021Largest: $133,986 to CAMBIUM BIOMATERIALS — domestic biological production of novel polymers
Largest: $10,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — nsf center for sustainable polymers
Largest: $41,752 to GREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION — to support the business resource navigator and the polymer connectivity cluster
Michiana PartnershipSouth Bend, INCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $15,000 · through 2023Largest: $15,000 to CT POLYMERS — training, apprenticeship, and internship stipends.
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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 →