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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 “tools”
Where the money went
Largest: $129.2M to BILL & MELINDA GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — discovery and translational sciences; enteric and diarrheal diseases; malaria; mnch discovery and tools; pneumonia; research and learning opportunities; tuberculosis
Largest: $562,498 to CAMBIA LIMITED — in support of a tool that connects patents and research knowledge to leading scientific researchers, relevant industries, and other stakeholders.
The Smidt FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
128 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to KALAMA SCHOOL DISTRICT #402 — 2022 harbor freight tools for schools prize for teaching excellence - school award
Largest: $546,455 to CATALYST CALIFORNIA — expanding data accessibility for organizers for health equity: to establish a preeminent research and data tool for racial justice organizers in california working on systemic chan…
Largest: $743,336 to CENTER FOR OPEN SCI — 79762 improving confidence assessment tools for research claims to foster public trust, equitable access to, and trustworthiness of, research evidence
Largest: $175,000 to THE MIAMI FOUNDATION — to support the launch of the local news impact consortium, a collaboration of research universities that will develop standard, open-source tools and methods to effectively measure…
Largest: $275,000 to CRITERION INSTITUTE INC — core support for the financing program to develop strategies and tools to equip feminist movement actors to allow them to engage finance as a tool to address gender based violence
Largest: $850,000 to The Learning Agency — to manage an assessment track in the second round of the tools competition, designed to support the creation of technological tools that will reduce the time and cost of assessment…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
35 matching grants · $10.6M · through 2024Largest: $700,000 to Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development — in support of strengthening investigative and data-driven journalism as tools for reducing corruption and enhancing accountability.
Largest: $1.0M to TRUST AND SAFETY TOOLING HUB — to scalably deliver open-source trust and safety tools to companies of all sizes.
Largest: $600,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — for use by its department of urban studies and planning in support of expanding the mit living wage tool, a calculator that provides regional cost-of-living estimates, to help boos…
Largest: $125,000 to HEALTHCARE PURCHASER ALLIANCE OF MAINE — to leverage hospital price and financial data and other price-related tools (e.g., nashp's hospital cost tool, sage transparency, catalyst for payment reform's policy pathway repor…
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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 →