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12 funders with a record of paying for “surveillance”
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Great Lakes Hemophilia FoundationElm Grove, WICharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2023Largest: $82,495 to VERSITI WISCONSIN INC — to provide outreach and care through the hemophilia treatment center network and conduct surveillance and research to prevent complications.
Largest: $50,000 to WATCHED FILM LLC — for the inverse surveillance project, a community engagement campaign that uses documentary media to create a space for muslim american communities traumatized by surveillance to b…
Largest: $500,000 to TEMPLE UNIVERSITY — 82040 continuing the work of the center for public health law research in legal epidemiology and policy surveillance to advance health and health equity
Largest: $400,000 to STICHTING LIGHTHOUSE REPORTS — to protect people at particular risk of surveillance including those in authoritarian countries by exposing through investigations actors involved in the surveillance supply chain …
National Foundation for the Centers forAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $595,000 to CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL — early childhood nutrition surveillance optimization
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
14 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $35,000 to Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc — in support of a series of white papers exploring emerging surveillance technologies
Largest: $20,000 to MEKONG BASIN DISEASE SURVEILLANCE FOUNDATION — in support of developing a project on an event-based disease surveillance mobile application to provide health workers with real-time reports and analytics to detect, monitor, and …
Largest: $327,184 to Engage Media — supports indonesia's ai governance, youth activism, and tech surveillance research
The Center for Comprehensive Care andOrange, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $525,397 · through 2023Largest: $76,222 to VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — subcontract cdc/athn grant public health surveillance
Calyx InstituteBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $175,000 · through 2023Largest: $65,000 to Demand Progress Education Fund Inc — research and education regarding surveillance and constitutional rights.
Largest: $253,940 to BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE — understanding drug use within a rapidly changing supply: an ethnographic and toxicologic investigation to improve overdose prevention and supply surveillance communication
Largest: $250,000 to STICHTING LIGHTHOUSE REPORTS — to support a small, investigative journalism nonprofit organization in analyzing the threats to democracy, human rights, and privacy posed by the unchecked growth of the surveillan…
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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 →