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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 “tongass”
Where the money went
Largest: $70,000 to SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY — for tongass national forest protection
Largest: $175,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — environmental - salmonstate: tongass conservation
True North FoundationGrass Valley, CA
4 matching grants · $505,000 · through 2024Largest: $155,000 to SEACC — tongass program/mining and clean water program/indigenous outreach/general support
Largest: $1.0M to NEW VENTURE FUND — alaska's tongass national forest: land, climate, and the future
Largest: $250,000 to SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL INC-SEACC — project support for an end to cruise ship scrubber pollution in alaska and old-growth forest protections on the tongass national forest
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $25,000 · through 2022Largest: $10,000 to SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY — to provide support for the tongass wilderness fund - living wilderness staff position advocate
Largest: $30,000 to SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY — work in protecting the tongass national forest
Largest: $35,000 to WILD HERITAGE — for dr. del lasala's pnw and tongass campaigns
Largest: $100,000 to NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — restore public use cabins in tongass and chugach national forests
Largest: $1,000 to AUDUBON ALASKA — wildlife refgue and tongass defense fund
PeacehealthVancouver, WACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $20,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to South Tongass Volunteer Fire — community benefit
Largest: $10,000 to SE ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL — protection of tongass national forest
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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 →