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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 “solicited”
Where the money went
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $5.7M · through 2022Largest: $268,427 to Association of Graduates of The United States Military Academy — unrestricted support of the ncaa army women's soccer team: should not be contributed to an endowment, fellowship or long term fund instrument; can be used to solicit other matching…
Quad Cities Golf Classic CharitableEast Moline, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $372,175 to GENESEO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — established to actively solicit and receive gift requests and grants to compliment, enrich and enhance the educational opportunities & experiences for the students of the geneseo s…
Largest: $850,000 to FUTURE EARTH — to support transdisciplinary research projects, selected through international solicitations, that advance knowledge about tipping points in the earth system and improve the assess…
Largest: $50,000 to University of Las Vegas NV Foundati — the unlv foundation is an irs code 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks and manages gifts to the university. it was founded in november 1981 to coordinate all private giving…
Largest: $35,000 to FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — charitable contribution - to encourage, solicit, receive, and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes for fiu and i…
Buffalo Hearing & Speech CenterBuffalo, NYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2025Largest: $562,612 to BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — the purpose of the foundation is to solicit, receive, maintain, manage, and distribute funds on behalf of buffalo hearing & speech center, inc.
Largest: $54,000 to The Tides Foundation — for naacp collective action fund as solicited by naacp branch #2045 in boston, massachusetts
Largest: $44,400 to FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — to encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes for fiu and its objectives.
Largest: $250,000 to UNIV OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts and bequests, administers and invests securities and property and distributes payments for benefit of uw-madison.
Medford Public Library FoundationMedford, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $2.2M to MEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY — in the summer of 2018, the medford public library foundation (mplf), a 501(c)(3 )organization was established to solicit, manage and monitor private funds raised for the constructi…
Largest: $23,000 to UNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY — to conduct annual fund-raising campaigns to solicit contributions for distribution to united way agencies within wise county tx
Jackson Lewis FoundationWest Harrison, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $16,500 · through 2024Largest: $5,500 to FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — to encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes for fiu and its objectives.
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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 →