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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 “song”
Where the money went
Largest: $82,438 to BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIV FOUNDATION — for pre-medicine scholarship, for allied health profession scholarship, for art song competition, for music performance fund, and for marjorie e. conrad, m.d. voice scholarship.
Largest: $46,256 to DAIN SONG — educational scholarship
Largest: $75,000 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — transfer of an alfred p. sloan research fellowship for shuran song in computer science, originally awarded to columbia university
Largest: $300,000 to SISTER SONG INC — for general operating support
Largest: $236,295 to COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH — 81135 supporting ancient song doula services in establishing a birth justice fellowship, empowering grassroots initiatives to develop birth justice hubs
New York Women'S FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $475,000 · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC (FBO ANCIENT SONG DOULA SERVICES) — early investment
Largest: $31,766 to FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES — program use & fundraising efforts
Largest: $15,000 to KEVIN'S SONG — for general operating support. kevins song is an advocacy organization that brings families, providers, and policymakers together to learn and share evidence-based practices to pre…
Largest: $260,000 to LIFE SONG(WHERE NEEDED MOST) — general purpose grant
Largest: $385,000 to The House of Songs — to provide programming and operations support for thosa's work in benton and washington counties.
Largest: $300,000 to SISTER SONG INC — for the development and creation of a reproductive justice movement-wide online platform
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $326,100 · through 2024Largest: $115,000 to SISTER SONG INC — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
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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 →