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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 “shape”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — core support for research and communications work to shape stronger and more explicit gender justice approaches in the criminal legal system, reduce women's incarceration rates, an…
Largest: $1.0M to AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FDN — 80084 supporting grassroots tenant organizing to build the capacity of the housing justice movement to shape state and federal housing policy
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
16 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2022Largest: $500,000 to URBAN INSTITUTE — enable the organization to achieve its mission to open minds, shape decisions, and offer practical solutions to the nation's social and economic policy challenges through evidence-…
Largest: $260,000 to George Mason University — for a one-time project on transnational networks shaping non-western shadow spaces as part of a request for proposals on understanding the forces shaping the global order
Largest: $250,000 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — to support and shape research in behavioral economics by project mercury, a consortium concerned with public health challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic
Largest: $61,358 to American National Red Cross — benefit the underserved in communities where marketaxess employees live or work and help shape the future of financial technology.
Largest: $750,000 to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — the role of microbiomes in shaping the ecology and evolution of tropical forest ecosystems
Largest: $1.6M to FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-NUREMBERG — in support of research to develop a new imaging approach that relies on shaped electrons to extract entirely new information from a sample - namely coherence properties.
Largest: $15,000 to The University of Texas at Austin — research communication: balancing free speech and inclusion in a racially divided climate: how postsecondary institutional responses to hate speech are shaping equity and inclusion…
Largest: $153,451 to Guttmacher Institute Inc — shaping the narrative on abortion rights through an equity lens
Largest: $341,235 to TRANSFORMCA — to use commercial parking management and information technologies to provide information and tools about parking management strategies in san jose in a publicly accessible, transpa…
Largest: $50,000 to CALMATTERS — inform californians through meaningful journalism about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives
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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 →