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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 “reliever”
Where the money went
Rays Baseball FoundationSt Petersburg, FLCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $334,560 · through 2023Largest: $52,660 to HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — reliever grant, partnership grant & scholarship
West Conshohocken Borough FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
18 matching grants · $41,759 · through 2025Largest: $5,000 to G MINNIS — to relieve financial hardship
Largest: $500,000 to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS — to relieve poverty in st. paul.
Largest: $1.3M to THE ANNIE GARDNER FOUNDATION — to assist in preventing and relieving suffering and distress among poor, unfortunate and vocationally handicapped persons residing in graves county, kentucky, by providing to or fo…
Salem Area Chamber of CommerceSalem, ORCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $80,000 · through 2022Largest: $15,000 to CULINARY RUSTICA — to relieve economic impact due to coronavirus.
Largest: $60,203 to JEWISH NEVADA - NEVADA'S JEWISH FEDERATION — to help care for the most vulnerable, provide humanitarian resuce and relieve aid, and offer programs and services. to help to build and strengthen the jewish nevada community thro…
The Dsfederal Idea FoundationRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $40,000 · through 2025Largest: $20,000 to NEW HOPE FOUNDATION — subsidizes students from disadvantaged families in taiwan to study and support work, and also helps economically impoverished families relieve short-term economic pressure, engages…
Largest: $408,333 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - FAMILY HOUSE — to help relieve the burden for families in a time of crisis.
Largest: $20,000 to LITTLE FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY — to relieve isolation and loneliness for snior citizens
Largest: $10,000 to BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE MO — for scholarship support to help relieve the high cost of tuition for ministry students
Largest: $124,449 to EMERGENCY AID GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS AS DETERMINED BY SOCIAL WORKERS AND BOD — for relieving poor, infirmed, aged widows and women
Largest: $99,902 to Indigent Individuals - Africa — direct humanitarian charitable distribution of purchased clothing shoes food to low-income individuals and families to relieve poverty in nigeria via local volunteers.
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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 →