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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 “rule”
Where the money went
Freedom HouseWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
54 matching grants · $123.7M · through 2024Largest: $17.0M to PACT INC — supporting human rights, democratic initiatives and/or rule of law
Largest: $300,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — core support for the rule of law impact lab to use legal tools for research, documentation, advocacy and public education to address the global decline of democracy
Largest: $550,000 to Sustainable Fishery Advocates — to increase ambition and action of us retailers in seafood sustainability, and to increase the reach and effectiveness of import control rules to reduce illegal, unreported and unr…
Pan American Development FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $4.2M · through 2023Largest: $1.2M to AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION — advance security & rule of law
Largest: $175,000 to THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — to support research, coalition building, and advocacy, in order to benefit civil society and the general public in poland by tracking, monitoring, and exposing the links between th…
East-West Management InstituteNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $333,678 to NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE (NDI) — civil society support and rule of law
Fox Chase Cancer Center FoundationPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $13.0M · through 2024Largest: $3.8M to The Institute for Cancer Research — annual spend rule allocation of permanently restricted endowment
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
8 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $310,000 to RULE OF LAW AND EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE — to consolidate and institutionalize criminal justice reform in nigeria
Largest: $80,913 to University of Southern California — in support of using laboratory experiments and computer models to define the evolutionary rules that govern which combinations of form and function are possible for one type of mar…
Virginia Law FoundationCharlottesville, VACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $242,890 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics — the john marshall center (jmc) preserves and honors the founding legacy of john marshall by engaging and educating learners of all ages about our constitutional history, the rule o…
Largest: $1.0M to SEIU EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — 82279 accelerating efforts to advance home-rule reform by activating communities directly harmed by abusive local preemption
Largest: $348,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to advance the study of the rules and norms that govern the new digital public sphere of social media through support of the yale information society project at yale law school.
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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 →