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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 “practitioner”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to NEO PHILANTHROPY INC — core support for conflict transformation fund to partner with bipoc capacity builders, restorative justice practitioners, and funders to co-create and build a community praxis to l…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
26 matching grants · $8.6M · through 2023Largest: $550,560 to NATIONAL COMPADRES NETWORK INC — expand access to trauma-responsive racial healing support for children and families by expanding a national coordinated racial healing practitioner network, standardizing a racial …
Largest: $450,000 to Columbia University — for a project for the center for public research leadership's to develop a practitioner toolkit based on the concerns-based adoption model to support curriculum implementation effo…
Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial CountiesSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2023Largest: $175,000 to Mission Edge for San Diego Regional Arts — to supports artists and cultural practitioners working in service of the health and well-being of communities in san diego and imperial counties
Largest: $745,000 to COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED — on behalf of the equitable food oriented development (efod) collaborative, community services unlimited requests a 3-year grant of $2,235,000 to support the field of efod practitio…
Largest: $75,000 to EMERGING PRACTITIONERS IN PHILANTHROPY — 81379 general operating support for emerging practitioners in philanthropy, 2023-2025
Largest: $500,000 to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — to support a forum for supervision agency leaders, foster practitioner-researcher connections, and identifying and facilitating opportunities to develop evidence-based supervision …
Largest: $20,000 to WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY — nurse practitioner scholarship - brandy garner
Rheumatology Research FoundationAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to University of Arizona — clinician scholar educator award, innovative research award, innovative research award for community practitioners, investigator award, or the scientist development award
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $197,000 to CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS — california association for nurse practitioners conference, 2023; advancing the role of the california association for nurse practitioners; legal support: ab 890 regulations
Largest: $249,991 to UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA — to connect early career energy economics researchers with practitioners through a training program provided by the regulated utilities leadership institute (ruli)
Largest: $475,000 to HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS — promoting health and racial equity in public health: to advance the transformation of the public health field to center health and racial equity and build collective power with soc…
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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 →