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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 “risk”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.1M to MERIDIAN IMPACT CIC — research fellowship programmes focused on risks from advanced ai
Thunderbirds CharitiesPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
162 matching grants · $9.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — at-risk youth & families
Alabama Civil Justice FoundationMontgomery, ALCharity · may take applications
126 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — assisting disadvantaged, disabled, and at-risk families and children
Largest: $355,916 to SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER — prevention of inflammatory bowel diseases in persons at risk: the pionir trial (preventing ibd onset in individuals at risk)
Largest: $180,409 to QUEENS COLLEGE CUNY — investigating sensorimotor signatures during sleep states in infants at high risk for autism
Langley for Families -Newport News, VACharity · may take applications
59 matching grants · $991,728 · through 2025Largest: $12,644 to LGBT LIFE CENTER — contributed funds to assist a variety of local 501(c)(3) healthcare organizations providing healthcare services to adults and children, prevent high risk pregnancies and care for p…
Largest: $5,000 to COMMUNITY NUTCRACKER — performance arts education to at risk youth and scholarships
Largest: $270,000 to O'NEIL RISK CONSULTING & ALGORITHMIC AUDITING — for the development of algorithmic accountability infrastructure, an explainable fairness approach that would help solidify public interest approaches to algorithmic risk managemen…
Largest: $1.4M to OCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC — to develop online tools that improve at-sea fisheries transparency, in particular a fishing vessel rapid risk assessment for use by the insurance industry.
Largest: $268,754 to MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH QUALITY PARTNERS INC — 81528 examining social risk factors and creating risk-adjustment models to disrupt racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and advance health equity
Largest: $50,000 to ORR SHALOM FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK LTD — to support a jobs placement and training program for women at risk to build the skills necessary to gain employment and economic independence.
Largest: $789,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — to conduct research on changes to risk adjustment in medicare advantage (ma) to inform policy proposals and ongoing administrative efforts to reduce incentives for ma plans to enga…
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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 →