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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 “privacy”
Where the money went
Largest: $1,691 to LMD — educational scholarship to underserved individuals. full name of individual withheld due to privacy needs.
Largest: $10,765 to PENNCO TECH FOR IRIS JOSE ZUNIGA — scholarship granted. note that in order to protect the privacy of the student, personal information is not provided. individual can be contacted through the fund. all disbursements…
Largest: $300,000 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — core support for the center on privacy and technology to expose and advocate against the disparate impact of privacy invasions, train privacy advocates in the legal and technologic…
Largest: $124,974 to HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND ART LTD (DBA HERE ART CENTER) — to support looking at you, an immersive opera about online privacy that incorporates mined audience data and a digital privacy kit
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
11 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to Carnegie Mellon University — in support of a policy white paper and related research and analysis exploring the nexus of online behavioral advertising and privacy
Largest: $650,000 to Privacy International (PI) — to raises awareness on technologies that place privacy at risk
Largest: $377,000 to CITY OF SAN JOSE — to support the san jose city managers office in expanding the citys data leadership and capacity to make data-driven decisions, measure outcomes, protect digital privacy, and drive…
Largest: $227,700 to ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER — 81969 studying the impacts of health privacy policy in efforts to realize more robust and equitable health data privacy protections beyond hipaa
Largest: $171.5M to Donation of Inventories — foundation provides prescription drugs at no cost to qualifying individuals under a patient assistance program (pap). expense include drugs as well as a service to administer the p…
Largest: $750,000 to Common Sense Media — ed tech privacy ratings: implementation of monetization model
Donors TrustAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $4.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.7M to People United for Privacy Foundation — for general operations
Largest: $200,000 to SOLOMON ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA — to support solomon to benefit communities at increased risk of state hacking and other surveillance globally through investigations aimed at improving transparency and improving pr…
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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 →