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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 “sustenance”
Where the money went
Largest: $280,464 to SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE THAILAND - SOS BANGKOK — hunger-relief and scholarship assistance organization created to facilitate the recycling of wasted hospitality food in underdeveloped areas and the funding of scholarships for imp…
Largest: $93,981 to AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY — to provide sustenance to people in need
Largest: $39,210 to SOUTH AMERICAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIA E — direct expendituresto provide sustenance, educationand medical care
Largest: $287,133 to SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE THAILAND - SOS BANGKOK — hunger-relief and scholarship assistance organization created to facilitate the recycling of wasted hospitality food in underdeveloped areas and the funding of scholarships for imp…
The Global Foodbanking NetworkChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $232,000 · through 2023Largest: $75,000 to Scholars of Sustenance — farm rescue program and surplus food recovery (thailand)
Largest: $10,000 to OLD TOWN HOT SPRINGS — to contribute to the life, growth, sustenance, and future of the old town hot springs.
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
2 matching grants · $550,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to GLOBAL IMPACT — to support food rescue in jakarta by scholars of sustenance, a project of global impact
Largest: $45,000 to FEED MY PEOPLE — basic sustenance program, refrigeration and client choice market project, and helping hands
Largest: $10,000 to FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN — shelter, safety, and sustenance to families searching for work and housing
Largest: $5,790 to Veronica S — scholarship & sustenance assistance
Largest: $135,004 to Sunrise County Economic Council — to support two complimentary projects that, together, could help restore the productivity and resilience of half moon cove, a key coastal ecosystem that once provided important sus…
Largest: $3,000 to STANDUP FOR KIDS ORANGE COUNTY — funds for basic needs (sustenance) of mentored youth in the sufk mentoring program
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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 →