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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 “radical”
Where the money went
Anti Police-Terror ProjectOakland, CACharity · may take applications
51 matching grants · $5.1M · through 2023Largest: $400,000 to Affect Real Change Inc — radical redistribution gifts
Radical HopeConcord, MACharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $409,823 · through 2025Largest: $120,000 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — to support execution of radical health programs
Largest: $50,000 to NEW NEGRESS FILM COLLECTIVE LLC — for production of 'point 5', a cinematic series investigating vital theories on the function of systemic oppression while exploring radical ideas for liberation
Largest: $30,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — the effect of vesicopexy on urinary continence and quality of life following roboticassisted radical prostatectomy: a randomized clinical trial
Largest: $426,000 to VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE — to support formerly incarcerated, radically empowered with development of research and resources that address the well being of formerly incarcerated people
Largest: $648,954 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — to establish and support a three-year institute within harvards berkman klein center for internet & society that will incubate and build momentum around new approaches to addressin…
Hester Street CollaborativeNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $480,000 · through 2022Largest: $95,000 to Parceleras Afrocaribenas Por La Transformacion Bar — radical imagination for racial justice initiative
Largest: $91,000 to W M BURNEY-SCOTT — to curate a multidisciplinary initiative and educate the public on reproductive justice, radical black feminism, gender liberation and pathways to normalizing menopause and aging f…
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $250,000 · through 2022Largest: $50,000 to WISDOM INSTITUTE — radical imagination fund grant
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $545,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to RADICAL MONARCHS — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Amalgamated Charitable FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $253,000 · through 2024Largest: $76,000 to Radical Monarchs — general operating support
Largest: $425,090 to LYNDEN INC — grants were provided to lynden, inc., a nonprofit that formed in 2019, to support lynden, inc.'s initial operations. lynden, inc. provides educational programming such as education…
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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 →