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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 “slow”
Where the money went
Gypsy Moth Slow the Spread FoundationRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
51 matching grants · $13.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE — gypsy moth slow the spread trapping & treatment
The Sprouts Healthy CommunitiesPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to SLOW FOOD DENVER — slow food denver- yr1 2024 ($50,000), yr2 2025 ($50,000)
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
5 matching grants · $722,022 · through 2024Largest: $233,431 to FONDAZIONE SLOW FOOD ETS — support indigenous leadership towards sustainable food systems transformation in chiapas and the yucatan peninsula, mexico, by strengthening the capacities of women and youth to le…
Largest: $99,986 to Slow Food USA — funds to slow food wind river to provide wyoming-made food year round
Largest: $6,100 to GROTON SCHOOL — financial aid fund for the missing middle, and to slow tuition growth scholarship fund
Largest: $40,000 to CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND — funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing alzheimer's disease
Largest: $10,000 to CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND — unrestricted grant to fund research with the highest probability of slowing, stopping or reversing alzheimer's disease.
Rsf Social FinanceSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $113,095 · through 2024Largest: $55,694 to BLACK FARMER FUND INC — for participation with slow money nyc; for bill cohort participatory grantmaking pool; for general operating support
Tahoe Truckee Community FoundationTruckee, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $138,924 · through 2023Largest: $67,768 to SLOW FOOD LAKE TAHOE — general funding
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $72,500 · through 2024Largest: $27,500 to SLOW FOOD U S A INC — community & human services
Largest: $50,000 to SLOW MONEY INSTITUTE INC — general operating support - food and farming
Largest: $26,160 to SLOW FOOD U S A INC — general & unrestricted
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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 →