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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 “slot”
Where the money went
Smart Beginnings Virginia PeninsulaNewport News, VACharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $8.7M · through 2024Largest: $66,708 to CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS PARKS & REC — grants for salary bonus, scholarships and slot payments
Arkansas Community FoundationLittle Rock, ARCharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to REYNOLDS INSTITUTE ON AGING AT UAMS - UAMS SLOT 748 4301 W MARKHAM LITTLE — uams/rioa fellowship grants
Franklin Granville VanceHenderson, NCCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $271,223 to FVW OPPORTUNITY — nc prek slots
Neighborhood HousePortland, ORCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $481,195 · through 2024Largest: $164,617 to HELEN GORDON CHILDREN'S CENTER AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY — head start slots
Largest: $125,000 to MONTESSORI DEL MUNDO — capital to open new ece slots
Community Foundation of the Napa ValleyNapa, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $166,731 · through 2024Largest: $115,000 to COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN — for the expansion of child care slots in napa county program
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
3 matching grants · $475,000 · through 2022Largest: $225,000 to MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE — support healthy prenatal outcomes and enhance the intellectual, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers to promote later success in school and life for east bilox…
Triumph Gulf CoastTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $514,019 · through 2024Largest: $355,120 to AMIKIDS PANAMA CITY MARINE INSTITUTE — this grant will provide assistance with continuation and sustainability of career & technical programming with industry recognized certifications under the new charter model until …
Largest: $50,000 to Strengthening Rural Families — increase organizational capacity and preschool slots
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
1 matching grant · $1.5M · through 2022Largest: $1.5M to BRILLIANT CORNERS — to support 300 new interim housing beds and 55 motel-based interim housing slots for individuals experiencing homelessness with a serious mental health disorder, who are being dive…
International Center for Responsible GamingBeverly, MACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $172,500 · through 2024Largest: $172,500 to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — the contribution of structural characteristics of slot machines to game immersion
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $316,973 · through 2022Largest: $316,973 to Bourgeois Guitars LLC — the plek is a specialized cnc machine designed to optimize every element that contributes to a guitars playability. its functions include milling highly complex geometric fretboard…
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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 →