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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 “sense”
Where the money went
Largest: $800,000 to Woods Hole Research Center Inc — in support of research to develop an arctic carbon monitoring and prediction system that will incorporate ground based, airborne and satellite remote sensing data and computer mode…
Largest: $1.0M to Common Sense Media — to support state and federal policy and research aimed at closing digital divide.
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to COMMON SENSE MEDIA — arts and culture
Largest: $2.0M to COMMON SENSE MEDIA — 2024 operating grant
Largest: $100,000 to COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE — coors fellowship
Largest: $281,622 to HOWARD UNIVERSITY — to explore how spontaneous, self-organizing processes give rise to goal-oriented behaviors in single-cell organisms by studying the reassembly and mass-sensing behaviors of physaru…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $934,334 · through 2024Largest: $327,000 to COMMON SENSE MEDIA — community outreach & enrichment programs
Largest: $500,000 to COMMON SENSE MEDIA — to expand and unify common sense medias ai ratings across platforms, and develop ai literacy tools for safer digital environments.
Largest: $800,000 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — to conduct credible research, analyze policy proposals, and provide in-depth technical assistance to federal policymakers to advance common-sense reforms in the medicare advantage …
Largest: $1.6M to Common Sense Media — for project support for digital citizenship resources, library pilot, and annual summit sponsorship
Largest: $75,000 to COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE — csi daniels scholar fellowship program
Largest: $325,000 to COMMON SENSE MEDIA — for amplifying youth voice, revising the digital citizenship curriculum, and studying its impact
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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 →