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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 “resarch”
Where the money went
Largest: $550,000 to THE BRAIN FOUNDATION — autism resarch
Largest: $5,700 to TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESARCH INSTITUTE — charitable, educational, religious, scientific & medical
Largest: $5,000 to MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING — cancer care and resarch
Largest: $47,000 to MPN Resarch Foundation — stimulate original research in pursuit of new treatments and eventually cure for the mpns.
Largest: $5,000 to SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER — medical resarch and education programs
Largest: $25,000 to YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT — to support the leading forestry and carbon sequestration resarch in the country
Largest: $30,000 to UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT — clinical resarch grant: international research in the upper gi international robotic association (ugira) registries, and establishing the ugira international registry for robot-ass…
Hi FoundationFort Lauderdale, FL
3 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to MACULAR DEGENERATION RESARCH — to support care for diseases of mind and sight.
Largest: $4,000 to OVARIAN CANCER RESARCH ALLIANCE — program support
Largest: $1,000 to Juvenile Diabetes Resarch Foundatio — research for juvenile diabetes
Largest: $2,000 to METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND — resarch girls' nees, grants for education
Largest: $32,500 to TALL TIMBERS RESARCH — support mission
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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 →