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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 “principles”
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CodeorgSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
135 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2024Largest: $120,900 to ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION (AVID) — grantee to provide professional development and community building for k-12 teachers using the code.org curriculum and professional development model. funding 2022-2023 code.org co…
Largest: $1.3M to ETH ZURICH — prime - principles of microbial ecosystems
Largest: $750,375 to PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE — 81910 researching new publishing models anchored in open science principles for improved transparency, equity, and accessibility
The Schott Foundation for PublicCambridge, MACharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2022Largest: $125,000 to SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — to support education justice alliance's work seeking to resist politically motivated attacks on critical race theory in order to advance an honest, accurate, and fully funded publi…
Largest: $135,000 to NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — to preserve and promote buckleys legacy and advance the principles of a free society through educational and outreach programs
Largest: $30,000 to PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION THE — the principle foundation website redesign
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
11 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $574,883 to ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — evaluating cops as a vehicle for implementing the principled innovation framework
Largest: $200,000 to UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO — for research on the digital public sphere, political polarization, disinformation, and for exploring principles for regulation models to deal with disinformation dynamics
Offerdahl Family FoundationIncline Village, NV
12 matching grants · $284,300 · through 2025Largest: $60,000 to REASON FOUNDATION — advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law.
Largest: $80,000 to SANTA CRUZ COUNTY CALIFORNIA — support santa cruz county's effort to continue detention and system reform work. santa cruz to serve as a learning lab to advance results count, jdai and probation transformation p…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
9 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2022Largest: $757,007 to RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — increase the economic security of low-wage workers and their families by promoting and implementing key employment principles and practices that empower workers and small businesse…
Largest: $12,000 to THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values and a strong n…
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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 →