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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 “thought”
Where the money went
Clean Future ForumWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $55.6M · through 2024Largest: $5.2M to Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc — to provide policymakers with thoughtful educational resources and opportunities for dialogue in support of solutions to address climate and clean energy development and other publi…
Largest: $2.6M to Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University — to support the center on reinventing public education (crpe), housed within arizona state university's (asu) mary lou fulton college of education, to execute multi-year research an…
Largest: $250,000 to SOCIAL FINANCE INC — core support to provide thought leadership, research and education on how public and private capital can improve social outcomes
Clean Future Action FundWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $20.1M · through 2024Largest: $4.8M to American Energy American Jobs Inc — to provide policymakers with thoughtful educational resources and opportunities for dialogue in support of solutions to address climate and clean energy development and other publi…
Largest: $537,300 to ASPEN ART MUSEUM — to promote thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society.
Largest: $475,000 to HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS — promoting health and racial equity in public health: to advance the transformation of the public health field to center health and racial equity and build collective power with soc…
Largest: $87,500 to VISIBLE NETWK LABS — 79973 assessing the research, policy, and practice influence on thought leaders of rwjf's county health rankings & roadmaps program
Donors TrustAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $301,000 to Center for Independent Thought — for stossel in the classroom
Largest: $1.5M to URBAN INSTITUTE — to support learning in and across cities on how to achieve shared prosperity by helping local leaders align federal investments with local goals; building a new urban practice thro…
Largest: $7,500 to SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE — to produce intimate, thought-provoking, and innovative contemporary theatre that engages and challenges audiences.
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
8 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $675,026 to INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES — invigorating the discourse: challenges to the future of classical liberal thought
Safa TrustHerndon, VACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $60.6M · through 2024Largest: $16.0M to INTL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT (IIIT) — iiit is a supported organization of safa trust inc.
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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 →