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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 “propublica”
Where the money went
Largest: $750,824 to PROPUBLICA — 80154 supporting investigative journalism on healthcare at propublica, 2022-2024
Largest: $1.3M to PROPUBLICA — support of propublica local reporting network
Largest: $54,150 to ProPublica — celebration grant
Largest: $1.1M to PROPUBLICA INC — to catalyze the next phase of propublica's local reporting network via support of newsrooms in communities historically underserved by journalism.
Largest: $329,000 to PROPUBLICA — to support the full-time beat investigating risks to democracy
Largest: $680,000 to PROPUBLICA — organization's charitable purposes
Largest: $250,000 to PROPUBLICA — investigative reporting
Isrb FundFairfield, NJ
4 matching grants · $48,974 · through 2025Largest: $12,504 to Propublica — exclusively charitable, religious, educational, literary and scientific purposes
Largest: $300,000 to PROPUBLICA — general operating support
Largest: $116,700 to ProPublica Inc — for general support
Largest: $1.7M to PROPUBLICA — pnw reporting network
Largest: $25,000 to PROPUBLICA — to help support a full-time reporter to work on stories concerning new yorks public institutions, including accountability reportingon policies, practices and program implementatio…
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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 →