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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 “prior”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to GROWING UP NEW MEXICO — operating support for the early learning center - payment of prior year obligation
Largest: $18,000 to PRIOR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION — general operating
Foundation for Detroit'S FutureDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $56.0M · through 2024Largest: $18.3M to CITY OF DETROIT — suppport for city of detroit prior police and fire retirement systems
Largest: $574,113 to NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE — to conduct a multi-site replication of a prior experimental study, in which a promising, low-cost supervisory intervention led to reduced arrests and use of force.
Largest: $1.0M to MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL - PRIOR YEAR GRANTS PAID IN CURRENT YEAR — medical cancer research
Largest: $170,000 to Fellowship Prog Grants - Appr Prior — the fellowship program is intended to support highly talented graduate students in new england and california whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and …
Largest: $282,952 to SPUR — this grant builds on spurs prior work in the guadalupe river park and intersects to parallel grants with the city of san jose and the guadalupe river park conservancy. spur staff w…
Largest: $200,000 to ASSOCIACAO PARANAENSE DE CULTURA (PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA DO PARAN — for the observatory of consultation protocols to analise the legal effects of indigenous, quilombolas and other traditional communities protocols and the right to free, prior and i…
Largest: $250,000 to UNLV Foundation — (cash payment in 2022 for prior year payable)
Largest: $300,000 to PROSPERITY NOW — this grant will support prosperity now in their efforts to advance person-centered systems change to close the racial wealth gap within and across diverse families. it will build o…
Largest: $15,000 to PRIOR-GROSCH ARIADNE N — fellowship stipend
Largest: $15,000 to THE POSSE FOUNDATION LOS ANGELES — this grant supported the pre-collegiate training (pct) program, an 8-month series of weekly workshops and summer retreats for newly selected posse scholars prior to matriculating. …
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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 →