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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 “results”
Where the money went
Largest: $644,580 to RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — research and learning opportunities
Largest: $326,354 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to optimize, scale, and study the social science prediction platform, an online resource for collecting and cataloguing expert forecasts about the results of social science experim…
Largest: $275,000 to Urban Strategies Inc — support to advance the results count framework
Largest: $350,000 to JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — to support the organizations career center programs with additional support services for clients resulting in job placements.
Association of Public HealthBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $57,720 to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA — the subrecipient will implement electronic laboratory reporting (elr) capabilities to be able to report results for all laboratory response network for biological threats (lrn-b) t…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
21 matching grants · $8.6M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — to support the university of oxfords centre for the study of african economies to conduct a randomized control trial exploring child welfare outcomes resulting from participation i…
Largest: $130,000 to ASIAN VENTURE PHILANTHROPY NETWORK LIMITED — to leverage capital towards impact investment in asia through collaborative research with the economist, disseminate results at its annual conference, engagements with g20 working …
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
20 matching grants · $5.5M · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to NATIONAL PRESS FOUNDATION INC — provide core support for the national press foundation to host the future of the american child fellowship, which trains journalists in providing accurate, in-depth reporting on in…
Largest: $165,000 to RUBRUM ADVISING LLC — to conduct research to determine whether medical devices approved for cleared under fda breakthrough device designation are demonstrably beneficial for patient and population healt…
South Carolina Association for CommunityCharleston, SCCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $940,442 · through 2022Largest: $143,174 to ALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVE — provided housing counseling services to people experiencing homelessness and housing issues as a result of the covid 19 pandemic
CnfaWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $760,904 to HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (HKI)-NIGER YALWA — lead design and implementation of activities for increased local consumption of nutritious, safe foods based on iterative research conducted through a markets and nutrition pathway…
Largest: $1.5M to NEW VENTURE FUND — in support of a select pilot to achieve results by key indicators (spark) project for the colorado river sustainability campaign.
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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 →