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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 “position”
Where the money went
Largest: $696,000 to SPECIAL PROJECT FUND DAF — to promote positive change to the policies and systems that assist youth in becoming successful adults.
Largest: $23,000 to BROCK CARTER — promote healthy, hopeful, and positive messaging to college and university students
Largest: $35,000 to SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLNIC — intern support, scholarships & supervision for behavioral health & healthcare positions
Largest: $1.0M to RAND CORPORATION — to position rand corporation as a data-informed expert on veterans policy, responding to and generating ideas, and as a convener of researchers situated at think tanks and academic…
Largest: $124,999 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — center for the transformation of schools - creating healthy schools: to increase awareness of the impact of implementing positive school climate practices and transformative system…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
70 matching grants · $12.3M · through 2022Largest: $500,000 to OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — advance a more equitable and supportive graduate and postdoctoral pathway for leadership level positions in stem academic, non-profit and industry sectors
Largest: $18,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND — start-up research package for new position in biology
Largest: $500,000 to CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY INC — to support the distributed artificial intelligence research institute for their work on the discriminatory impacts of artificial intelligence and how to mitigate harm, to benefit b…
Governor'S Partnership To ProtectEast Hartford, CTCharity · may take applications
50 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $85,824 to URBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — healthy communities and positive relationships with adults
Largest: $1.5M to Populace Inc — to study private opinion and collective illusions in society around key issues that affect culture and institutions, especially education, essential to creating a positive-sum soci…
Largest: $365,000 to DEETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — core support for the creation of a new position, the dr. johnnetta b. cole curator, a leadership position designed to advance permanent collection reinterpretation, through the lea…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $7.4M · through 2023Largest: $134,027 to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of River Forest — salary support for hinz position, salary support for garcia position, general operating support.
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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 →