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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 “review”
Where the money went
Largest: $6.4M to EVIDENCE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — to support the institute for clinical and economic review research that provides independent analyses of the comparative cost effectiveness for newly-introduced pharmaceutical drug…
Largest: $1.2M to ANNUAL REVIEWS INC — to support the development of "s2o", a pilot program for open access annual reviews journals and knowable magazine, a digital magazine that communicates topical scientific knowledg…
Committee On StatesRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2023Largest: $125,000 to TENNESSEE INVESTOR FUND — to support efforts to recruit donors, increase professional development opportunities, and review and vet non-partisan civic engagement plans
Largest: $44,686 to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY — living literature review on gene drive research for applications like malaria control policy
Donors TrustAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to University of Texas Law School Foundation — to support the texas review of law & politics via the tex lezar scholarship fund
Largest: $120,000 to ONLINE JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — to revive the practice of local in-person reviewing of arts and cultural events by establishing and growing arts reviewing hubs in philadelphia and detroit.
Largest: $675,000 to PROJECT HOPE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HLT FDN — 80505 building the infrastructure for the publication launch of a new multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, health affairs scholar
Largest: $134,784 to UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — to develop a large language model-based reviewer for code submitted for academic peer review
Largest: $500,000 to Jewish Review of Books Foundation — general operating support
State Leadership ProjectRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $865,000 · through 2022Largest: $115,000 to ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE INC — to recruit charitable donors and review non partisan civic engagement plans.
Largest: $312,620 to EdReportsorg — for a project to continue to increase smart demand for high-quality science instructional materials, perform science market research, and expand science reviews into high school bi…
Largest: $338,500 to National Review Institute — to support the capital matters initiative and the thomas l. rhodes journalism fellowship
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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 →