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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 “sanitation”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.0M to AFRICAN WATER AND SANITATION ASSOCIATION — water, sanitation and hygiene
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
17 matching grants · $15.2M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to STICHTING IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE — to support the community water and sanitation agency in its growth as a professionalized public utility in ghana, playing a stronger regulatory role within the sector in the contex…
Doterra Healing Hands FoundationPleasant Grove, UTCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $790,852 · through 2024Largest: $76,110 to Jd Sheth Foundation Inc — clean water & sanitation
Millennium Water AllianceWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2023Largest: $483,581 to CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — water and sanitation
Largest: $1.5M to Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor — resilient water & sanitation programing for low in come communities
Largest: $100,000 to CONTAINER BASED SANITATION ALLIANCE (CBSA) — affordable, safe and dignified sanitation
Kohler Trust for Clean WaterKohler, WICharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $9.6M · through 2024Largest: $2.5M to UWM SCHOOL OF FRESHWATER SCIENCES — improving water quality, sanitation or sustainability
The Rotary Foundation of RotaryEvanston, ILCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $680,000 to HANWASH INC — water and sanitation-humanitarian-daf
Largest: $12,000 to BENSON AND CARRICE KANDEH — support ecowater sanitation solutions water sanitation and hygiene (wash) projects and initiatives where kandeh serves as executive director and water & sanitation engineers
Largest: $20,000 to SANITATION HEALTH RIGHTS INDIA — provide water & sanitation services un rural india
Largest: $135,000 to THE WATER TRUST — support villages, schools, and health centers in rural uganda to equip communities to minimize preventable disease through improved water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Largest: $100,000 to CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC — toward costs to improve water and sanitation infrastructure and emergency programming to provide job training to support understaffed hospitals in yemen.
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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 →