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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 “scale”
Where the money went
Blue Meridian PartnersNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
143 matching grants · $725.6M · through 2023Largest: $37.0M to YOUTH VILLAGES — to support scaling plan
Largest: $500,000 to Bentonville Child Care and Development Center Inc dba Helen R Walton C — to support families from a wide range of economic backgrounds through the sliding scale tuition program and to invest in educators through an adjusted pay scale to assist with empl…
Largest: $497,196 to National Scholarship Providers Association — scaling a high-quality scholarship program database
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
63 matching grants · $43.6M · through 2024Largest: $800,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — to conduct research in the united states in partnership with the world health organization in order to ensure global validity of the global scale for early development
Largest: $8.3M to CITY FUND — scaling high quality public schools
Largest: $95,000 to FEEDBACK RESEARCH INSTITUTE — support scale-up of programs leveraging data collection strategies customized via the care4 data collection platform and adaptations of other programs
Largest: $164,000 to Manor House Agricultural Centre — kenya ae hub 4: accelerating ae and frn impacts through complementary scaling strategies (scaling up, out, and deep)
Largest: $500,000 to GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST DBA SCALE LINK — 81797 general operating support for great rivers community trust dba scale link
Largest: $500,000 to INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN — in support of an applied research study to evaluate the carbon and income effects of large-scale women led climate programs in asia and africa.
Largest: $2.0M to CONSERVATION X LABS INC — in support of developing empirically validated multimodal and autonomous ai models that will accelerate the speed and scale of scientific research.
Largest: $402,000 to EQUAL RESEARCH PTY LTD — for evidence-based research to strengthen and expand investment in and scale-up of evidence-based and feminist-informed strategies to advance gender equality and end violence again…
Largest: $244,774 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — large-scale implications of micro-scale microbial ecosystem dynamics
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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 →