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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 “regulations”
Where the money went
Family Planning Council of NebraskaOmaha, NECharity · may take applications
44 matching grants · $13.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND — providing voluntary family planning services in accordance with title x regulations.
Largest: $1.5M to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC — to support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.
Largest: $400,000 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — targeted restoration of chromatin regulators for treatment of asds and developmental delays
Largest: $125,000 to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — core support to the vanderbilt policy accelerator for research on technology regulation using the lenses of industrial policy, public governance, and utility regulation
Largest: $500,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — in support of research to enable green chemical catalysis by wirelessly sensing and regulating interfacial electric potential.
Community Health AdvocatesAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $6.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to Intercare Community Health Network — to support the furtherance of their charitable purpose activities as defined in the irs 501 regulations.
Largest: $150,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATI — to investigate the regulation of treg lymphatic tumor migration and the interaction among tregs, lymphatic endothelial cells, and tumors to develop strategies of delivering targete…
Largest: $419,227 to Northeastern U — 77756 studying public-sector administrative, regul
Largest: $150,000 to CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM — support research and education to strengthen evironmental regulation
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2025Largest: $250,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — cellular and molecular studies of apoe regulation of blood-brain barrier, synaptic and neuronal functions and protection strategies in mouse models with and without alzheimer's pah…
Largest: $1.5M to EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA WATER AND SANITATION REGULATORS ASSOCIATION — water, sanitation and hygiene
Largest: $30,000 to KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY — for 25 scholarships to be awarded to trainees and early career researchers from underrepresented backgrounds to attend either the regulation of barrier immunity conf or the immunom…
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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 →

