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12 funders with a record of paying for “storytelling”
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Largest: $3.0M to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — core support for the creation of the international resource for impact and storytelling (iris), an external donor collaborative supporting a global-south moving-image storytelling …
Largest: $124,200 to ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — undocumented filmmakers collective - supporting health storytelling in california: to support the storytelling of the undocumented immigrant experience and the highlighting of the …
Lilly EndowmentIndianapolis, IN
28 matching grants · $16.2M · through 2025Largest: $1.3M to NATIONAL ASSOC OF EVANGELICALS — christian faith&life storytell init
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
23 matching grants · $9.8M · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to CENTER FOR SCHOLARS & STORYTELLERS — in support of the center for scholars and storytellers' annual summit
Largest: $1.0M to FREE PRESS — to support the shift the narrative coalition focused on changing the narratives in local media around violence, crime and safety, and putting the power of storytelling in the hands…
Common Counsel FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
27 matching grants · $479,500 · through 2022Largest: $45,000 to HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER — project support for storytelling arts
Largest: $300,000 to KAMAU STUDIOS LLC — to support kamau studios, a visual storytelling studio and creative community of storytellers experimenting with narrative devices in visual storytelling called storystyle, includi…
Largest: $250,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — to support the grantee's fiscally sponsored project, iris - international resource for impact and storytelling, working on narrative and storytelling to advance democratic transfor…
Largest: $500,000 to Educators for Excellence — to recruit, build the capacity of, and elevate educator viewpoints through public opinion data and storytelling work.
Largest: $90,000 to OREGON U OF — 80642 honoring and sharing the importance of traditional indigenous storytelling as key to research, equitable evaluation, and learning
Largest: $275,000 to HARNESS COMMUNITY — this general operating grant supports harness' mission to use the power of storytelling to imagine and create a more equitable world.
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
8 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — for international resource for impact and storytelling to conduct a discovery phase for integrating narrative and storytelling approaches aimed at alleviating adverse outcomes for …
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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 →