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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 “spin”
Where the money went
Largest: $338,176 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — to combine electron-spin resonance and scanning tunneling microscopy for quantum sensing and manipulation of spin states, focusing on understanding of atomic-scale defects in quant…
Largest: $67,258 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — spin glasses, dimension reduction, and applications
Anti-Defamation League FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $36.6M · through 2024Largest: $15.7M to ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — adl for good campaign, spin off from endowments, & general support
The Praxis ProjectSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $9.0M · through 2023Largest: $5.8M to NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE — spin off expense - nbfja was a former fiscally sponsored project who spun off from praxis
United Way SuncoastTampa, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $313,900 · through 2024Largest: $147,000 to POSITIVE SPIN INC — allocations, designations, disaster relief response, grants & program impact funding
Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianNewport Beach, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED (SPIN) — guided assistance to permanent placement
Largest: $412,725 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — for a molecular beam spin precession experiment searching for the cp-violating nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment (mqm)
Largest: $10,000 to SPIN CAFE — general operating
Largest: $7,500 to SPINNING TREE THEATRE — unrestricted general
Largest: $60,000 to NAWI AFRIFREM COLLECTIVE — for nawi's institutional transition to spin-off
Metropolitan Arts Council ofKansas City, MOCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $23,000 · through 2024Largest: $6,500 to SPINNING TREE THEATRE — financial support
Largest: $5,000 to SPINNING TREE THEATRE — 2023/2024 season support
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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 →