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12 funders with a record of paying for “subsistence”
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United Way of the Upper Ohio ValleyWheeling, WVCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $525,048 · through 2024Largest: $45,444 to YWCA — to provide assistance for basic subsistence
Largest: $116,000 to Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger — sustainable integration of trees with crops, livestock and human for improved resilience and ecosystem services in pearl millet-based subsistence farming systems in niger (cathi-ga…
Largest: $35,000 to University of Alaska — to support an oral history project to document alaska's subsistence research legacy.
Largest: $23,000 to ASPEN GREAVES — greaves, aspen (pittsburgh, u. of) "a multi-method approach to mongol-era agropastoralist subsistence"
Largest: $750,000 to SWITCH BIOWORKS — environmental fertilizer for subsistence farmers in africa
Largest: $111,235 to Organizations groups and individual — 1. construction of latrines and clean water facilities. 2. support of ministry seminars, outreaches and training. 3. support for primary, vocational, secondary and college educatio…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
2 matching grants · $264,888 · through 2022Largest: $155,205 to FUNDACION LEON XIII IAP LEON XIII FOUNDATION PRIVATE — increase family economic security through technical assistance and training with savings, business and organizational management, entrepreneurship, and subsistence farming for part…
Kaesong FoundationRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $34,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to FIRST KOREAN BAPTIST CHURCH — fund christian mission trips that provide education, subsistence and supplies for undeveloped communities
Largest: $3,300 to VISIONARY WOMEN'S CENTRE (VWC) — to empower vulnerable women through sustainable agricultural practices and financial inclusion by implementing subsistence farming and table banking systems.
Largest: $200,000 to SEMILLA NUEVA — subsistence farmers income develop
Seventh Generation FundEureka, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $40,000 · through 2022Largest: $40,000 to NATIVE CONSERVANCY — a subsistence program to strengthen native elders' connection and rights to self determination, food sovereignty, food security and support aid to impacted alaskan native communiti…
Arizona Education AssociationPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $18,584 · through 2024Largest: $18,584 to ISAAC DIST E A — student support: essential subsistence
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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 →