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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.
5 funders with a record of paying for “researchprogram”
Where the money went
Largest: $500,000 to SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — establishundergraduatesummer researchprogram inchemistry andbiochemistry.
Brk Family FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL
2 matching grants · $17,500 · through 2025Largest: $15,000 to THE COLLEGE DIABETES NETWORK (DIABETES LINK) — to fund researchprograms
Max and Lilian Rappaport Foundation Ft Treatment & Study of Social TraumaClifton, NJ
1 matching grant · $350,000 · through 2024Largest: $350,000 to Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Research — medical researchprograms
Largest: $60,000 to UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — medical researchmedical researchmedical researchprogram fundingmedical research
Sbw FoundationMiddletown, CT
1 matching grant · $1,000 · through 2023Largest: $1,000 to NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION — to fund researchprograms
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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 →