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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 “readers”
Where the money went
Local Media AssociationLake City, MICharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2022Largest: $76,666 to HOUSTON DEFENDER NEWSPAPER INC — reader revenue initiative
Largest: $100,000 to AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - CHARLOTTE — general operating support to provide intensive tutoring to aspiring 1st - 3rd grade readers who are behind in reading. also additional funding awarded to launch a technology soluti…
Largest: $5,600 to SPRINGFIELD YOUNG READERS — springfield young readers
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
9 matching grants · $511,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc dba Chicago Reader — to support the research and testing of membership models and other approaches to revenue generation for the chicago reader
Largest: $15,000 to RAISING A READER MA — raising a reader massachusetts (rar-ma) kindergarten communities
Largest: $10,648 to NEW RICHMOND SCHOOL DISTRICT — library books, decodable readers, easy readers, book box sets, toolkits, correcting learning wraps, generator/decharge electrode, imaginative design tools, stem skills workstation,…
Dollar General Literacy FoundationGoodlettsville, TNCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $146,800 · through 2025Largest: $50,000 to RAISING READERS NASHVILLE — raising readers nash
Largest: $30,000 to READER TO READER — funding for general charitable operations
Largest: $50,000 to KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - ARIEL ABERG-R — funding of annual literary awards that honors authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature.
Largest: $250,000 to JOYFUL READERS — literacy tutoring for k-3 students
Largest: $80,000 to CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC — screen reader user tester training program
United Way of SouthernBrownsville, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $148,020 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to GARRIGA ELEMENTARY — reading intervention for struggling readers
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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 →