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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 “property”
Where the money went
Largest: $470,000 to DUKE UNIVERSITY — property care; collections/archives
Largest: $1.6M to FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-NUREMBERG — in support of research to develop a new imaging approach that relies on shaped electrons to extract entirely new information from a sample - namely coherence properties.
Homefree USALandover, MDCharity · may take applications
87 matching grants · $22.8M · through 2023Largest: $7.1M to NATL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION — property purchased for renovation and sale to low and moderate income potential homeowners.
Largest: $10,000 to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — intellectual property education/support
Largest: $2.0M to Center for Land Reform INC — expanding national heirs' property work, pt 2
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $10.7M · through 2023Largest: $3.7M to City of Frankfort — to support acquisition of undeveloped property in frankfort, michigan, and to dedicate, develop, and maintain such property as a public park or open space available to the public
Homes for AmericaAnnapolis, MDCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $576,151 to HOMES ON THE GLEN LP — property improvements
Pittsburgh History & LandmarksPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $264,641 · through 2024Largest: $10,600 to PHIPPS CONSERVATORY — historic religious properties restoration
Largest: $114,923 to UCLA — modelling radiative transfer effects of variations in properties of stratospheric aerosols
Largest: $160,300 to THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN — scholarship fundnon-cash donationdate of gift: 2/18/25description of property: 1000 shares of oakmark investor etfbook value of property: $27,897method used to calculate book value…
Largest: $45,000 to MISSOURI HOUSING AUTHORITIES PROPERTY & CASUALTY INC — 82198 providing innovative financing to assist missouri housing authorities property & casualty members to upgrade to fortified roofs on public housing
Largest: $1.5M to THE CONSERVATION FUND — non-cash transfer of oil and gas rights on the 61,633-acre maurepas swamp property in louisiana. a description of the contributed property: oil/gas rights. the book value of the co…
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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 →