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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 “survey”
Where the money went
Bob Woodruff Family FoundationLong Island City, NYCharity · may take applications
108 matching grants · $11.5M · through 2025Largest: $263,400 to BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE — suicide prevention; conference scholarship; survey incentive; basic needs assistance; super bowl event funding; sponsorship
Largest: $900,000 to NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER (NORC) — 81670 expanding norc's asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander panel to strengthen the voice of those communities in survey research
Sentara HealthVirginia Beach, VACharity · may take applications
55 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2024Largest: $385,700 to UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS — employee survey year end gift, aals stem scholarship partnership
Largest: $55,926 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — doctoral dissertation survey research grant
Largest: $800,456 to SSRS — international health policy survey, 2025
Largest: $100,000 to COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — to conduct surveys of salt lake county, utah; davidson county, tennessee; and jefferson county, kentucky defendants and to conduct a mixed methods study to examine the reasons for …
Largest: $347,000 to BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY — for the academy of china income distribution studies to conduct chinese household income project surveys for research and policy advocacy on income distribution and poverty in chin…
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and SurveyingGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $420,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Northwestern Michigan College Foundation — surveying education award
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $13.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES — california health interview survey, 2023-2024; ucla fielding school of public health service and evaluation planning for ucla homeless healthcare collaborative; the health of calif…
Preservation League of New York StateAlbany, NYCharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $338,592 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION — cultural resources survey
Largest: $100,000 to NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — support to ensure census data quality (decennial census, population estimates, american community survey)
Health Resources in ActionBoston, MACharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2023Largest: $202,500 to HEALTH IMPERATIVES — covid-19 community impact survey 23, health & racial equity, unrestricted
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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 →