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12 funders with a record of paying for “racist”
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Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
14 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2022Largest: $150,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — promote community action, co-develop anti-racist training modules alongside community partners, and strengthen anti-racist curriculum to young adults entering the workforce by prov…
Largest: $250,000 to WOMEN'S MARCH NETWORK — for wmn's digital defense project, in collaboration with the united visions collective, to challenge misogynist and racist disinformation online and undertake research to blunt ant…
Largest: $75,600 to SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE — eef2087 transitional studies culturally responsive / anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy
Largest: $522,414 to MINNESOTA U OF — 79848 creating a multidisciplinary team to conduct anti-racist, community-engaged research to inform policies that will dismantle structural racism
Largest: $50,000 to University of Pittsburgh — research for what?: dreaming toward quantitative paradigms for anti-racist transformation
Largest: $30,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — school of public health - promoting an anti-racist school climate: to support a faculty leadership academy to advance a vision of becoming an anti-racist public health school by ex…
Largest: $207,837 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE — a southern california regional rpp network for the comparative study of research use in anti-racist partnerships
Largest: $100,000 to UCSF - ANSIRH — ansirh - to diversify their investigators, and to create a more inclusive, equitable, and anti- racist work environment.
Largest: $1.1M to GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE — it takes roots and grassroots global justice to transition to a feminist anti-racist regenerative economy
Largest: $132,263 to ICAHN SCOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — to support a project entitled, an anti-racist future: transformational change in medical education.
Largest: $65,000 to MAYTHA ALHASSEN — to design a storytelling model for television shows and films that disrupts structurally racist, sexist, trans and homophobic, classist and ableist discriminatory practices
Largest: $500,000 to RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC — roi seeks to become an anti-racist organization, through its culture, processes and services offered
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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 →

