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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 “stream”
Where the money went
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $15.4M · through 2023Largest: $6,773 to MISSOURI STREAM TEAM WATERSHED COALITION (DBA STREAM TEAMS UNITED) — restoring and conserving hickory and shoal creek
Largest: $1.0M to DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK — 2022 drn - stream designations/ research based advocacy
Trout UnlimitedArlington, VACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $345,900 · through 2024Largest: $82,000 to CLALLAM COUNTY — replace three existing fish passage culvert barriers with new stream crossing structures to restore fish passage.
Largest: $475,000 to Denver Hybrid College — to scale its career and college accelerator by increasing employer partnerships to expand work-based learning while creating a new revenue stream and launching a fellowship to offe…
Largest: $1.3M to FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — for region-wide mapping, research, and outreach tools to improve stream habitat and water quality, to reduce flooding, and enhance restoration activities in local streams and the c…
The Oak Hill FundCharlottesville, VA
7 matching grants · $310,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — to 1) continue long-term water quality monitoring and reporting programs, 2) build community understanding of the importance of water quality, stream health, and stewardship action…
Largest: $524,759 to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — core support for the city university of new york graduate school of public health research on sexual and gender-based violence funding streams focusing on multilateral, bilateral a…
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $182,500 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to STREAMS & VALLEYS INC (STREAMS AND VALLEYS INC) — for trail maintenance, requested by philip williamson
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $208,950 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Four Streams Partners — religious ministry
Ncasi FoundationCary, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $865,862 to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC — retained structures forestry experiment (manipulating retained structures to improve wildlife value),technical work to improve the science and risk assessment processes in national…
Largest: $175,000 to FILM STREAMS — 2025 operating grant
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
6 matching grants · $815,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Moving Image Limited — to promote transparency and accountability through targeted behavior change using radio and online streaming.
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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 →