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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 “programme”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.5M to UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME — inclusive financial systems; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $66,973 to GASWORKS — the funds are to be used to fund an artist programme which will be structured as an annual programme for three years in which an emerging uk-based artist living and working outside…
Largest: $50,000 to THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — core support for the programmers of colour collective to promote inclusivity in the global festival programming community by representing programmers who are pocs, women, and lgbtq…
Largest: $5.4M to UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME — to support clean energy
Largest: $3.9M to WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME — toward the costs of producing a scientific update of the eat-lancet commission on food, planet, health in order to inform shifts towards healthy and sustainable food environments, …
Largest: $50,000 to SAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY — to support the organization with resources to bring it to the next level of operational, programmic, financial, or organizational maturity.
Largest: $5.0M to United Nations Development Programme Regional Bure — regional partnership on management of plastic wast e and circular interventions on plastics in south, south east asia, and the pacific
Largest: $350,000 to UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES — to increase global consciousness and action on reparatory justice and to strengthen caribbean-africa engagement through ongoing support and development of academic programmes, rese…
Largest: $250,000 to INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ASSOCIATES LIMITED — a programme to advance feminist economics alternatives in the global south
Largest: $2.2M to UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME — asia pacific youth co:lab initiative
Largest: $500,000 to UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME — for the united nations global pulse lab kampala program
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6 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $959,088 to THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL — to fund the highly cost-effective charities that givewell recommends through its research or, where appropriate, the specific programmes of those charities that givewell has identi…
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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 →