Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “structures”
Where the money went
Largest: $80,000 to URBAN INST — 79273 analyzing the sources of structural racism and making recommendations for interrupting those structural constraints on health and well-being
Illinois Manufacturers' AssociationSpringfield, ILCharity · may take applications
266 matching grants · $7.5M · through 2024Largest: $449,350 to GENERAL MILLS INC — cover cost to deliver a structured training program(s) to upgrade the skills of their full-time employees
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS — novel arbitrary lagrangian-eulerian finite element method for cardiovascular fluid-structure-poroelastic structure interaction problems
American Academy of DermatologyRosemont, ILCharity · may take applications
68 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $53,121 to PLAY AND PARK STRUCTURES — shade structure grant program
Largest: $329,379 to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — to support structural and optical characterization of lepidopteran wings to discover novel materials and structures for bio-inspired designs and the development of unconventional t…
Largest: $485,000 to PEKING UNIVERSITY — for the institute of new structural economics to further develop the international research initiative to realize the potential of public development banks and development financin…
Northland FoundationDuluth, MNCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to THE NORTHSPAN GROUP INC — to support work in rural communities across northeast minnesota to foster belonging and address structural inequities & to support capital access across the region to stabilize eco…
Largest: $100,000 to TRUST FOR AMERICAS HEALTH — advancing public health through federal policy and research: to utilize a framework to identify policy areas in which national and california stakeholders can directly address stru…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
33 matching grants · $20.9M · through 2022Largest: $654,166 to NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT INC — support low-wage workers in precarious work structures via technical assistance, legal support, and policy research to achieve improved working conditions as well as both increased…
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $95,771 to WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for historic structures report for the noyes cottage, researching street cars in wbl, and 3d object collection inventory
Largest: $108,000 to OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — to support organizational infrastructure for long-term sustainability, including finalizing cooperative governance and staffing structure, strategic planning around the best use of…
Largest: $29,957 to University of Michigan — a-101.3 this research project looks to advance methods for the efficient estimation of the reliability of post-elastic high-rise wind-excited structures within a performance-based …
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →