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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 “seminars”
Where the money went
Largest: $225,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — to support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "beyond othello the moor: seminar for interdisciplinary study of blackness and muslimness in the context o…
Largest: $15,000 to OHIO FOOT AND ANKLE MEDICAL FOUNDATION — 105th ohio foot & ankle scientific seminar
Largest: $250,000 to BEIJING INSTITUTE OF FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY — for research on case study and seminars on transitional finance to support a just energy transition of china and for research on implementation of the sustainability disclosure gui…
Largest: $498,982 to SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR — 81618 supporting the salzburg global seminar to design and implement cross-boundary communities of practice toward health equity for all
Largest: $501,525 to GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES — in support of conferences and seminars hosted by gordon research conferences.
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $937,000 · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to THE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS AND ACADEMIC SEMINARS — educational programs & other student svc
Largest: $475,000 to AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION — provide support for research, educational seminars and workshops for the newspaper industry.
Largest: $1.1M to THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION — to build capacity of health care professionals in countries of transition through knowledge transfer (salzburg medical seminars), experience exchange, and satellite symposia and le…
Largest: $252,220 to ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — 2022 scholar seminar
Largest: $50,000 to International Radio Television Society Foundation — support fellowships for the irts summer fellowship program, irts multicultural career workshop, and irts faculty seminar
Largest: $10,000 to FLAHERTYINTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS — in support of 2 fellowships at the 2024 flaherty seminar, and general operating/staffing expenses.
Operation Grace World MissionsHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $273,277 · through 2025Largest: $19,909 to PRISON MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC — in-prison seminars, in-prison bible studies, mail call programs, and outreach in texas prisons
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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 →