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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 “toxic”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS — communicating impact of toxics in the arctic
Largest: $300,000 to TOXIC FREE FUTURE — driving toxic chemicals out of the built environment
Largest: $60,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — for the horizons project to convene democracy practitioners, scholars, network leaders and influencers and to strengthen relationship in response to rising authoritarian trends and…
Largest: $175,000 to TOXIC-FREE FUTURE — general operating support for mind the store, to support a series of convenings with the environmental health community to develop a coordinated vision and framework for advancing …
The Stanley & JoyceBeverly Hills, CA
13 matching grants · $252,500 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION — to support prevention and eradication of the epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at-risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of the transcendental meditat…
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2025Largest: $287,500 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — alzheimer's disease tau consortium: toxic consequences of early tau seeding
Loyola University of ChicagoChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $343,052 · through 2024Largest: $106,211 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE — glyoxal toxicity research
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $151,283 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to TOXIC-FREE FUTURE — to provide general support
Largest: $200,000 to BEYOND TOXICS — for general operating support
Largest: $50,000 to Maryland Public Interest Research Foundation — support for the toxics program
Largest: $40,000 to HEALTHY BUILDING NETWORK — homefree: advancing health in marginalized communities caused by toxics exposures
Largest: $465,000 to CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — improving engraftment in nonmyeloablative, low toxicity hla-identical sibling transplant for children with sickle cell disease
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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 →