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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 “randomized”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.5M to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, transl…
Largest: $66,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — random matrices, random graphs, and geometric functional analysis
Largest: $402,864 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to expand and diversify the community of researchers conducting randomized controlled trials (rcts) that investigate and address the underlying causes of racial inequity
Largest: $370,000 to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — to conduct a randomized clinical trial of a novel postpartum intervention in rural populations.
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: $1.6M to AMC MEDICAL RESEARCH BV — a prospective randomized study of treatment selection based on epigenetic markers in crohns disease: omicrohn
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
8 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — to support the university of oxfords centre for the study of african economies to conduct a randomized control trial exploring child welfare outcomes resulting from participation i…
Largest: $394,000 to RANDOM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT — scholarship fund - individual grant recipients chosen by school.
Largest: $105,000 to NNEKA UFERE - MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL — 80736 liverpal: a randomized study of inpatient palliative care for patients with end-stage liver disease -- nneka ufere, md, msce
Largest: $82,011 to HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — dr. katzenschlager - double sequential external defibrillation in refractory ventricular fibrillation - d.10054715 katzenschlager trial, a multicentric cluster randomized study
Met FoundationIndianapolis, IN
6 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2025Largest: $15,000 to RANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS — general operations
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $40,000 · through 2021Largest: $5,000 to CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT — congratulations! your organization was randomly selected during the blacc fund's #showsomelove holiday giveaway. we hope you use this grant to gift yourselves and your employees so…
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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 →