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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.

1 funder with a record of paying for “purposr”

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Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao → Huntington Library: $45K across 3 grants, latest 2024Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao → USC School of Business: $25K across 1 grant, latest 2021Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao → San Marino Police Officers' Associa: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao → Stroke Awareness Oregon: $4K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao → Family Forward: $3K across 1 grant, latest 2021Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nakao: $82K on this topic. Open the funder.Tsutayo Ichioka & Satsuki Nak…$82KHuntington Library: received $45K on this topicHuntington Library$45KUSC School of Business: received $25K on this topicUSC School of Business$25KSan Marino Police Officers' Associa: received $5K on this topicSan Marino Police Officers' Ass…$5KStroke Awareness Oregon: received $4K on this topicStroke Awareness Oregon$4KFamily Forward: received $3K on this topicFamily Forward$3K
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 20192025. 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 →