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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 “shells”
Where the money went
The Foundation for Youth FirearmsAberdeen, SDCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $147,800 · through 2024Largest: $53,500 to ABERDEEN GUN CLUB — dustproof township road, expand pa system, landscaping, parking lot improvements, purchased used computer, targets and shells
Largest: $147,407 to LITTLE SHELL TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF MONTANA — strategic planning for little shell tribal departments
Southwest Florida Community FoundationFort Myers, FLCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $165,048 · through 2024Largest: $35,218 to BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM — specific program
Largest: $20,000 to THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM — learning & scientific research
Largest: $20,000 to National Shell Museum — marine research
Early Learning Coalition of BrowardFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $578,349 to THE PUMPKIN SHELL # 3 INC — childcare reimb
Largest: $353,505 to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — to understand the emergence of unconventional properties in a class of open shell conjugated polymers, including intrinsic electrical conductivity, ground state paramagnetism, and …
Largest: $10,000 to LEVITT SHELL — support for the operations of levitt shell
American Bird ConservancyMarshall, VACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $103,408 · through 2024Largest: $30,444 to SHELL RIVER CLEARING — bird conservation
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $224,460 · through 2024Largest: $14,460 to Maine Shellfish Technologies LLC — we are developing a new version of a lobster meat extractor for lobster processors. this new process is utilizing existing technologies we have developed that will greatly simplify…
Community FoundationMemphis, TNCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $436,366 · through 2024Largest: $187,701 to OVERTON PARK SHELL — general operational support
The Golden LeafRocky Mount, NCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $8.4M · through 2024Largest: $2.9M to County of Robeson — robeson county site development project & shell project
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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 →