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12 funders with a record of paying for “repatriation”
Where the money went
Largest: $400,000 to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA — to support collections research towards african art scholarship and repatriation work
Largest: $30,000 to TIDES FOUNDATION — first nations repatriation institute
Largest: $20,719 to LUCAS DA COSTA MACIEL — da costa maciel, lucas (comision de repatriacion del kielmapu koyawe.) "negotiations across worlds: an ethnography of repatriation as collaboration to freeing mapuche ancestors and…
Largest: $25,000 to COASTAL PLAINS INSTITUTE INC — striped newt repatriation and education initiative
Largest: $530,000 to Project Recover — repatriate americans missing in action
Largest: $10,000 to USA for UNHCR — the unhcr is a un agency that aids and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or r…
Largest: $125,000 to AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION — core support to the first americans museum for its repatriation project, reunion: connecting collections with people and cultures, that works to reunite native american communities…
Largest: $5,000 to PROJECT RECOVER INC — charitable contribution - to enlist 21st-century science and technology in a quest to find and repatriate americans missing in action since world war ii, in order to provide recogn…
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $180,000 · through 2022Largest: $90,000 to FIRST NATIONS REPATRIATION INSTITUTE — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Nightlight InternationalSpringfield, MOCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $21,456 · through 2024Largest: $10,728 to ANTIOCH MINISTRIES — supporting repatriation of victims of forced criminality in se asia.
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USANew York, NYCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $82,345 · through 2024Largest: $82,345 to Rare Species Conservatory Foundation Inc — implementation of bongo repatriation and recovery program, care and maintenance of rscf bongo antelope in florida, u.s.-side bongo repatriation-related expenses.
James S Bower FoundationSanta Barbara, CA
2 matching grants · $10,000 · through 2024Largest: $5,000 to SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIS — repatriation of native ancestors & sacred objects
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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 →