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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.

1 funder with a record of paying for “trainingteacher”

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Mara W Breech Foundation → Friends of Girls Academic Leadership Academy: $16K across 3 grants, latest 2024Mara W Breech Foundation → Child Creativity Lab: $10K across 2 grants, latest 2024Mara W Breech Foundation → Regents of Uc Riverside: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2022Mara W Breech Foundation → Wlacc Bsacamp Whitsett: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2023Mara W Breech Foundation: $36K on this topic. Open the funder.Mara W Breech Foundation$36KFriends of Girls Academic Leadership Academy: received $16K on this topicFriends of Girls Academic Leade…$16KChild Creativity Lab: received $10K on this topicChild Creativity Lab$10KRegents of Uc Riverside: received $5K on this topicRegents of Uc Riverside$5KWlacc Bsacamp Whitsett: received $5K on this topicWlacc Bsacamp Whitsett$5K
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 20192025. 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 →