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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 “stimulate”
Where the money went
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $852,862 · through 2024Largest: $45,000 to SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY — the sor mini-grant is used for campus opioid and stimulant education and awareness programs.
United Way of Greater CharlottesvilleCharlottesville, VACharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $334,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to RITA'S BRIGHT BEGINNINGS — stimulate and support small businesses
Largest: $750,000 to WHOLE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS — women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. our mission is to operate and maint…
Tiny Blue DotWest Hollywood, CA
5 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $345,496 to MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — supporting research for a novel technique based on transcranial magnetic stimulation to detect consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness and testing a new method ba…
Largest: $21,914 to BCM - Dr Sameer Anil Sheth — dr. sameer anil sheth, a designated mcnair scholar at baylor college of medicine, is pursuing wireless magnetoelectric stimulation for mental and cognitive disorders.
Largest: $307,674 to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — stimulated glucagon levels as a biomarker of hypoglycemia risk in type 1 diabetes
Largest: $250,000 to DOC SOCIETY — to stimulate the production and distribution of documentary narratives to build support for pro-democracy and democratic reform movements
Largest: $123,647 to KATALYST ENGINEERING — to implement "gotta get engineering" program for k12 schools which implements 3d printers, 3d scanners and hands-on science kits to integrate engineering design and 3d printing tec…
Dalio Family FundWestport, CTCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $307,000 to FUND FOR TEACHERS A FOUNDATION TO RECOGNIZE STIMULATE AND ENHANCE — restricted to fellowship and innovation grants
PbhpNew York, NY
6 matching grants · $523,692 · through 2023Largest: $148,854 to HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — funding to support development of the organization's senior leadership, strengthen its infrastructure and stimulate a broadening of the organization's capacity to impact those bene…
Largest: $30,000 to RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST — support and stimulate new research strategies
Bartlesville Community FoundationBartlesville, OKCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $99,626 · through 2024Largest: $37,050 to OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY — building on its land-grant heritage, oklahoma state university promotes learning, advances knowledge, enriches lives, and stimulates economic development through teaching, research…
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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 →

