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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 “process”
Where the money went
Largest: $135,000 to UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES — promote large-scale, active and informed participation of citizens in the constituent process in chile, and help guarantee the transparency of the process.
Largest: $350,000 to HARVARD COLLEGE — studies in the chemistry of elementary processes on the prebiotic earth
Largest: $267,118 to UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — to develop processes for controlled creation of patterns of sub-10 nm defects essential to manipulate densities of states in semiconductors which will transform fundamental underst…
Largest: $143,051 to CLARK UNIVERSITY — 82475 expanding the study of how 501(c)(3)-(c)(4) hybrid organizations build community power, enhance leadership, and strengthen democratic processes
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
50 matching grants · $13.1M · through 2023Largest: $200,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — strengthen national truth, racial healing transformation community of practice to expand network reach of trht practitioners, scholars, advocates, and organizations currently engag…
Meb Alliance for Educator DiversityPeachtree City, GACharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to MURSION INC — to strengthen teacher preparation at msis by improving the teaching and learning conditions for all candidates, increasing capacity of the msi to implement a sustainable process of…
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
47 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $135,714 to Ocean's Balance — we operate an innovative seaweed dehydrator for use in processing harvested seaweed by both our own company and by other seaweed farms. ours is an in-demand, differentiated solutio…
Largest: $75,000 to CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — to bring the center for public integrity to the region to collaborate with local news organizations and readers in pennsylvania to investigate inequity in voting and access to the …
Largest: $475,000 to OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - SOFIA FOUNDATION — to enhance the process of the european union enlargement through supporting think tanks in europe to perform and exchange relevant policy research
Largest: $114,989 to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — to establish quantitative relationships between the maximum achievable sensitivity of any biochemical process and the thermodynamic forces driving that process
Largest: $500,000 to Foundation for Louisiana — to support the full participation of louisiana coastal community-based organizations in processes to address coastal challenges, and for general operating support
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2023Largest: $76,376 to ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSI — multiple grants to provide additional support for stand la work and ongoing popular education and advocacy around the phase out of oil and gas drilling in los angeles; to support o…
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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 →