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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 “tracks”
Where the money went
Largest: $5,000 to Washburn University Foundation — support for four year university/college scholarships for students enrolled in health related degree tracks
Largest: $1.5M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — to support investigations of galactic evolution and black hole physics by high-precision tracking of stars in the center of our galaxy.
Largest: $1.8M to CALIFORNIA U OF SAN FRANCISCO — 79488 building on the track record of rwjf's evidence for action research program, year 8
Largest: $15,000 to BELLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK — brooks every kid sports
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $323,220 to MOTT HAVEN-PORT MORRIS COMMUNITY LAND STEWARTS INC — change capital fund - change capital fund the change capital fund (ccf) is a collaboration of philanthropic foundations and financial institutions that pool funds to invest in comm…
Largest: $400,000 to BEIJING GRANDVIEW INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING COMPANY LIMITED — for a series of track ii dialogues and research projects on geopolitical questions
Largest: $480,500 to WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL — multi-site validation study of eye tracking-based measure of autism symptom severity
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $12.5M · through 2023Largest: $870,750 to Yale University — to support cafe lab's animal agriculture accountability project. general operating support. contribution to annual fund for yale divinity school, scholarship aid for yale divinity …
Wharf To Wharf RaceCapitola, CACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $313,361 · through 2024Largest: $14,000 to Santa Cruz Track Club — support of track club
Largest: $183,704 to Pear Tree Communications Inc — tracking health care delivery system and payment reforms: qualitative research and writing
Largest: $3.5M to CSIR CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY — in support of convening a consortium of research and clinical institutions to advance pathogen genomics to track sars-cov-2 variants and accelerate bioinformatics and global data s…
Largest: $340,000 to FINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT — to support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the health care sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the…
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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 →