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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 “someone”
Where the money went
Orange County Community FoundationIrvine, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $69,087 · through 2024Largest: $29,887 to SOMEONE CARES SOUP KITCHEN — human services
Largest: $10,000 to SOMEONE TO TELL IT TO DONATION — to provide support for individual
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesHarrisburg, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $67,500 · through 2025Largest: $22,500 to SOMEONE TO TELL IT TO — human service
National Charity LeagueCosta Mesa, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $58,219 · through 2024Largest: $23,300 to SOMEONE CARES SOUP KITCHEN — fund food for families in need
Largest: $90,000 to Someone Always Cares Foundation — support someone always cares foundation capacity building efforts to grow diversion programs
Rite Aid Healthy FuturesEtters, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $30,573 · through 2024Largest: $10,323 to SOMEONES DAUGHTER INC — support local kids programs
Largest: $10,000 to SOMEONE SPECIAL NEEDS YOU INC — helping hands group grants grant
Largest: $5,000 to HomeMore Project — the homemore project spent 18 months developing our makeshift traveler, a backpack designed specifically tailored to the needs of an individual experiencing homelessness. the pack …
Largest: $20,000 to SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD — summer program
Largest: $20,000 to Someone Cares New England — on-going operational support
Largest: $9,000 to SOMEONE SPECIAL NEEDS YOU INC — to help individuals with autism
Largest: $9,000 to KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — support of the susquehanna service dogs (ssd) program, which breeds, raises, trains and places service/hearing dogs to assist children and adults with disabilities to lead the live…
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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 →