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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 “recording”
Where the money went
Clean Slate InitiativeOrlando, FLCharity · may take applications
63 matching grants · $10.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to CODE FOR AMERICA — the clean slate initiative provides grants to organizations in support of its work toward advancing automated record clearance legislation that removes barriers to employment, hous…
Council On Library and InformationAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
45 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $49,751 to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — recordings at risk-preserving journalistic recordings
Largest: $1.0M to NEW VENTURE FUND — to support the clean slate initiative to automate record clearance for certain individuals with criminal records and expand eligibility criteria.
Largest: $10,000 to BRIDGE RECORDS — recording grant
Largest: $30,000 to JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE — community development: support community organizations that have a record of attracting investments in their neighborhood revitalization efforts.
Largest: $827,000 to ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER — core support for storage and reference services for the ford foundation archives and for additional records
Largest: $1.7M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — in support of research to optimize and validate protein-based molecular recorders that will record transcriptional histories inside of cells with absolute timing.
Largest: $1.8M to CALIFORNIA U OF SAN FRANCISCO — 79488 building on the track record of rwjf's evidence for action research program, year 8
Largest: $750,000 to MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — to support people's media record in the development of a shared repository infrastructure for the preservation of, and access to, community-based audiovisual media
National Operating Committee OnChandler, AZCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — the title of this grant is "advancing catastrophic sport injury research through detailed investigations and record abstraction: national center for catastrophic sport injury resea…
Largest: $224,779 to ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER — to promote public understanding of knight foundation history through the transfer of its archives to an independent center that specializes in the preservation of philanthropic rec…
Largest: $150,000 to The Regents of the University of Michigan — support for the criminal justice administrative records system
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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 →