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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 “redesign”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,000 to Seward Redesign Inc — for general operating support in recognition of seward redesign's participation in groundbreak coalition work groups
Largest: $550,000 to Research for Action — to conduct research and evaluation on lumina's great admissions redesign challenge grantees.
Largest: $305,000 to (411) SALEM PUBLIC SCHOOLS — education: to support the continued redesign of salem's high schools
Largest: $1.3M to OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION — to redesign and rebuild lock 3 as an excellent special event space and an inviting everyday day park for employees and new residents.
Family Housing FundSaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $504,000 · through 2023Largest: $22,000 to Minnesota Housing Partnership — emergency financial assistance redesign, data collection and analysis
The Ahmanson FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
14 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2023Largest: $400,000 to AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — toward redesign of the core, permanent exhibit, "imagined wests"
Largest: $400,000 to CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — for support of high school transformation and redesign
Michigan College Access NetworkLansing, MICharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $143,000 · through 2024Largest: $18,000 to MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE — reconnect now - pathway 1, gateway course redesign faculty academy grant
Largest: $400,000 to Institute for Quality Education Inc — to develop and launch a statewide communications campaign to enhance the implementation of two new initiatives: indiana's high school redesign and adoption of an evidence-based lit…
Largest: $317,000 to CASA DE MARYLAND — core support for a national tps funding collaborative, an effort to strengthen mobilization and advocacy efforts to secure new designations and redesignations for countries in urge…
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $6.7M · through 2024Largest: $2.8M to ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC — grant, redesigning pathways for adult college and career success grant, project success formative and summative assessment grant, project success 2024-2025 grant, travel grant - ru…
Largest: $334,000 to AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — to redesign the carnegie classification system, emphasizing social and economic mobility, and higher educations benefit to society.
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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 →