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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 “primate”
Where the money went
The American Anti-Vivisection SocietyJenkintown, PACharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $920,000 · through 2025Largest: $52,500 to OKLAHOMA PRIMATE SANCTUARY — general operating support and vet care for primate sanctuary
Largest: $25,000 to REWILD — the primate tourism app: making responsible primate tourism free and accessible to all
Largest: $80,000 to PROJECT PRIMATE INC — general operating support to protect primates, support education, law enforcement, and habitat protection activities as well as sanctuaries that rescue and rehabilitate orphaned pr…
Largest: $183,628 to YORK UNIVERSITY — developing a closed-loop framework using artificial neural networks and non-human primate experiments to test theories of atypical facial emotion processing in asd
National Anti-Vivisection SocietyChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $111,000 · through 2024Largest: $21,000 to PRIMATES INCORPORATED — to assist in constructing 3 outdoor enclosures for 5 rhesus monkeys retired from laboratories
Ahimsa FoundationSouth Windham, MECharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $128,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to JUNGLE FRIENDS PRIMATE SANCTUARY — support for animals
Largest: $35,000 to PEACEABLE PRIMATE SANCTUARY — animal welfare and conservation
Largest: $339,982 to PRIMATES PERU — in support of the integration of tracking, mapping, and genomic technologies to study the movement ecology of seeds and seed dispersers.
Largest: $20,000 to PACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC — for organization general
Largest: $100,000 to ST LOUIS ZOO — in support of primate care center
Lois E Womer FoundationPennington, NJCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $454,468 · through 2024Largest: $140,857 to PRIMARILY PRIMATES INC — general operating
Largest: $270,350 to University of Kentucky Research Foundation — support for htt lowering in non-human primates
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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 →