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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.
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Largest: $150,000 to INSTITUTO POLITICAS ALTERNATIVAS PARA O CONE SUL — for applied research, public forums and extension on the brazilian mineral problem and socio-environmental impacts, aiming to strengthen rights and the articulation among civil soc…
Family Health InternationalDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
33 matching grants · $12.3M · through 2023Largest: $2.8M to International Rescue Comm — socio-economic development
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
21 matching grants · $68.4M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Juritrust Centre for Socio Legal Research and Documentation Ltd Gte — to support a research survey on judicial officers across 20 states in nigeria with a view to deepening the understanding of how judges contribute to or reduce judicial corruption
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
16 matching grants · $3.8M · through 2022Largest: $181,000 to ATENTAMENTE CONSULTORES AC — promote socio-emotional skills in tseltal and tsotsil indigenous pre-school students in the highlands of chiapas, mexico, by training teachers to implement a culturally relevant so…
Largest: $750,000 to CENTRO BRASIL NO CLIMA — to support the grantee's work studying brazil's capacity to implement a robust subnational strategy emphasizing climate as a critical opportunity for socio-economic development
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
11 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF THE UGANDA EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE — to reduce the socio-economic vulnerability of 1,800 vulnerable women and youth in western uganda by increasing their income
Largest: $150,000 to TRUSTAFRICA — support for work to advance human and socio-economic rights in zimbabwe
Largest: $350,000 to Urban Assembly Inc — for support of the resilient scholars program, an evidence-based socio-emotional learning model for high school students
Largest: $790,000 to Comunidad y Biodiversidad AC — to improve the ecological and socio-economic performance of wff's focus fisheries in mexico through sustainable management.
Largest: $1.4M to INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT — gender innovation lab socio-emotional skills studies
Bhp FoundationWashington, DC
6 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2023Largest: $1.7M to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (CSIRO) — support and increase the diversity of young participants in stem across australia, particularly from under-represented groups (e.g aboriginal and torres-strait islander, female-ide…
Largest: $150,000 to IGY - ISRAEL LGBTQ YOUTH MOVEMENT — to support general operations, expanding its activities in the socio-economic periphery and in culturally specific populations; recruiting additional religious volunteers and openi…
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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 →