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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 “representation”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,400 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — branching laws for representations of orthogonal groups and applications to automorphic representations
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
84 matching grants · $36.4M · through 2024Largest: $4.1M to LAND OF LINCOLN LEGAL AID — to provide legal information, advice and representation to low-income people in 65 southern/central counties including veterans, people impacted by the criminalization of cannabis …
Largest: $3.2M to SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — supporting indigenous communities' land stewardship, self-determination, and cultural representation
Largest: $350,000 to THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — core support for special exhibitions featuring master contemporary artists exploring new ideas and scholarship on issues of race, representation, gender and power
Montana Legal Services AssociationHelena, MTCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $113,339 to NEW MEXICO LEGAL AID — provide legal representation in tribal courts
Vera Institute of JusticeBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $8.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to GALVESTON-HOUSTON IMMIGRANT REPRESENTATION PROJECT — general operating support
National Legal Aid and DefenderWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $72,086 to 603 LEGAL AID — nlada received funding for the national telephone abuse prevention project (ntapp) from a cy pres award in krakauer (o/b/o a class of persons) v. dish network, llc. ntapp supports …
Largest: $12,500 to DUQUESNE U — 76748 interdisciplinary research leaders cohort four - 2019: improving juvenile indigent defense and health through holistic representation
Acacia Center for JusticeWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2024Largest: $613,487 to COMMUNITY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC — children's holistic immigration representation project support
Largest: $25,000 to Coalition of Communities of Color — to support adequate bipoc representation in upcoming public opinion research about property tax reform in multnomah county
Largest: $143,000 to HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC — support homeless persons representation project's youth engagement
Largest: $1.0M to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — support for research on a data-informed framework for the representation of sub-grid scale gravity waves to improve climate prediction
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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 →