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12 funders with a record of paying for “push”
Where the money went
Largest: $75,000 to YELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC — we create entertaining, memorable, and scientifically accurate digital media and videos to challenge the decades of disinformation pushed by oil companies and amplified by large sw…
Largest: $350,000 to SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — core support for the debt collective to organize unions of debtors to push for debt cancellations and to remake the larger us social contract to center racial equity and democracy
Largest: $115,000 to NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION — support invincible mamas pushing action and change together (impact) young parent network
The New World FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $175,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — in support of its efforts to push back against project 2025
Largest: $700,000 to INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION — to support the grantee's work on strategic communications and narratives, responding to opposition, and supporting activists and social movements in the context of the push back on…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $955,000 · through 2021Largest: $275,000 to RICHMOND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — program - for general operating support to advance racial equity for low-income and people of color communities in contra costa county through engaging a coalition of community org…
Bvm Capacity Building InstituteAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $130,500 · through 2024Largest: $58,000 to Little Zorah Missionary Baptist Church ANCP A A NEW CHAPTER PUSH — gotv/voter registration
Rochester Area Community FoundationRochester, NYCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $115,160 · through 2024Largest: $48,860 to PUSH PHYSICAL THEATRE INC — for general support
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $237,000 · through 2023Largest: $40,000 to PUSH (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY ACCE INSTITUTE) — to support the project push and their housing justice work.
Bell Charitable FoundationRancho Santa Fe, CA
4 matching grants · $350,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Walk Away Foundation — support programs to push back on radical left agenda under the walk away program
The Burdette Family FoundationPass Christian, MS
3 matching grants · $70,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to PUSH PUSH THEATER & FILM — develop creative artist opportunity
Largest: $60,000 to PUSH TO WALK — physical therapy for handicapped people
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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 →