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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 “professions”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.8M to ASSOCIATION OF AM MED COLS — 79811 technical assistance and direction for rwjf's summer health professions education program, 2022-2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationFargo, ND
70 matching grants · $180,500 · through 2025Largest: $7,500 to University of Jamestown — health profession scholarship
Sanford Group ReturnSioux Falls, SDCharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $36.5M · through 2024Largest: $3.6M to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA (USD) — economic development, health professions education, research, workforce development
National Education Association of theWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2023Largest: $225,000 to ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — elevating the profession
Largest: $31,000 to FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HAITIAN MIDWIVES — to improve the lives of people and animals. goals are to grow the profession of midwifery in inclusive and diverse ways, contribute to the development of environmental scientific k…
Largest: $25,000 to AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ACADEMIC THERAPY INC — to support the national equity, diversity, and inclusion commissions two-day summit to bring health professions leaders in academic physical therapy together to create an action pl…
American Automatic Control CouncilSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $669,434 · through 2024Largest: $227,598 to INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC — to promote education and cooperation in the automatic control profession.
Largest: $897,945 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — to create a research consortium on gender equity in economics that studies and promotes scalable interventions for increasing womens representation in the economics profession
Largest: $100,000 to GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — mullan institute - transforming health professions in california: to promote increased accountability of health professions education and a health workforce that reflects the diver…
Association of Schools of Allied HealthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $163,305 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — the purpose of the grant is too support innovative research projects with the highest potential to produce new knowledge and paradigms towards success in interprofessional collabor…
Catholic Community FoundationSt Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $309,837 · through 2022Largest: $25,170 to CHURCH OF ST TIMOTHY — general oper, profess develop, program supp, retired priests, scholarship fund
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
8 matching grants · $8.5M · through 2022Largest: $3.5M to GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — support the transformation in battle creek public schools by providing students college/career readiness opportunities, including teacher and health professions pipelines towards i…
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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 →