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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 “rector”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.2M to RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA THE — enteric and diarrheal diseases
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — scholarships & financial aid
Largest: $7,500 to RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — virginia theater festival fund
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2024Largest: $318,437 to The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia — clinical research study
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $697,000 to The Rector & Visitors Of The — extramural research
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
7 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $260,000 to RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — to support the astronomy department
Largest: $281,540 to RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — to conduct interdisciplinary research on eyewitness identification.
Largest: $300,000 to RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — for the can democracy and capitalism be reconciled project at the miller center
Largest: $25,000 to DePauw University Rector Scholarship Endowment — rector scholarship endowment
Largest: $165,000 to ST JOHN'S PARISH - PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL — support rector wardens and
Knights Templar Eye FoundationFlower Mound, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $180,000 · through 2024Largest: $80,000 to RECTOR & VISITORS OF UNIVERSITY OF VA — eye research grant
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
4 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2023Largest: $850,000 to Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia — to critically examine the opportunities and challenges of quantitative risk assessment instruments in pretrial decision-making as part of the safety and justice challenge
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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 →