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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 “threatening”
Where the money went
Largest: $720,000 to THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE — to help freelance writers and artists who have career-threatening illness
Tum Tum Tree FoundationBirmingham, ALCharity · may take applications
61 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2025Largest: $225,000 to MAGIC MOMENTS — to provide support to alabama children with chronic life-threatening or certain life-altering conditions.
Walking for Kids FoundationMeridian, MSCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $380,622 · through 2024Largest: $62,500 to FIRST TEE — to help children with life threatening illnesses.
Largest: $750,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — core support for the trusted elections fund to prepare for and respond to a variety of high-risk scenarios and crises threatening local and national elections.
Largest: $1.3M to INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — to continue support for academic and humanitarian assistance for displaced scholars threatened by war and repression
Largest: $2.0M to CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY — to support the execution of phase iv of the open society university network threatened scholars integration initiative (osun-tsi)
Largest: $688,231 to Aid for Threatened Wildlife - Frankfurt Zoological — to improve consolidation conditions for six protected areas and indigenous lands in the upper purus mosaic (5.8 million hectares).
Largest: $1.8M to CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY — to support the threatened scholars integration initiative
Largest: $250,000 to INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION — to provide at least 22 life-saving fellowships and academic placements for threatened and displaced scholars from around the world over three years
Largest: $25,000 to Saving Nature — support for rescuing endangered and threatened species from extinction.
Largest: $60,000 to CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND — to support the climate science legal defense fund's (csldf)mission to protect the scientific endeavor by providing support and resources to scientists who are threatened, harassed …
Largest: $300,000 to UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — medical research, education support, and enrichment of the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions.
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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 →