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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 “solve”
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Southern Coalition for Social JusticeDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
82 matching grants · $883,750 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — solve southern movement grant
Largest: $160,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — the minnesota design center (university of minnesota, college of design) is a national leader in design thinking. they work with nonprofits and municipalities to apply design think…
Swipe Out HungerCovina, CACharity · may take applications
44 matching grants · $276,750 · through 2024Largest: $7,000 to COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — swipe grant funding to solve student hunger by providing our partner campuses with the support, training, and resources they need to run impactful food security programs, like stud…
Largest: $75,000 to LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — under its energy efficiencies and sustainability banner, brotherhood crusade looks to empower youth to lead the charge in establishing more environmntally-friendly schools and neig…
Largest: $459,037 to INTERNATIONAL PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES INSTITUTE — toward the costs of a multi-faceted research project to understand how indigenous peoples and their agroecology and regenerative practices can help to solve the global food systems…
Largest: $362,500 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — core support to the center for labor and a just economy program at harvard law school for research, teaching and creative problem solving related to the world of work and its impli…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
7 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2022Largest: $502,630 to UNIVERSITE QUISQUEYA — increase smallholder farmer income generation and value-chain viability by supporting quisqueya university's school of agriculture's (fsae) capacity to conduct applied research to …
Largest: $100,000 to ACADIA CENTER — to support the organization's committment to build clean, low carbon and consumer friendly economies. characterized by reliable information, comprehensive advocacy and problem solv…
Largest: $10.0M to The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group — to support historically underrepresented entrepreneurs solving complex and urgent k-12 education challenges inhibiting the social and economic mobility and excellence of america's …
Largest: $200,000 to CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK — support for solving hunger problems
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $472,352 · through 2023Largest: $99,700 to New England Ocean Cluster LLC — this innovation ecosystem application is to support 3 of the 5 projects in new england ocean cluster's transforming the blue economy program. this portfolio of projects focuses on …
Largest: $200,000 to MIT SOLVE — to provide support for the mit solve 2023 ai for humanity prize
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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 →