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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 “transferring”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.0M to GLOBAL IMPACT — 81106 gun policy research: supporting researchers to inform policy and practice in gun violence prevention -- transfer grant
Largest: $1.0M to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NY — to provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from cuny community colleges to cuny senior colleges
United Way of Tarrant CountyFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
94 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2022Largest: $169,000 to CLC - COMMUNITY LEARNING CTR — donor directed funds transferred to designated charity
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $18.9M · through 2023Largest: $12.6M to UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — for uc berkeley graduate school of journalism. to support the undocumented student program. to support the uc regents, cal performances shenson concerts. to support the dreamers (u…
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
37 matching grants · $41.5M · through 2024Largest: $15.0M to The Miami Foundation — transfer to daf
Largest: $35,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON — spring & fall 2022 myers-lecroy transfer scholarship
Largest: $825,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $71.2M · through 2024Largest: $7.4M to MDRC — grant, strengthen and scale multiple measures assessment implementation grant, examining faculty decision-making in course equivalency and transfer grant, learning partner for futu…
Largest: $10.9M to Hamill Charitable Trust - NT 03-18125 — transfer of assets to successor private foundation(see attachment d)
Largest: $175,000 to North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — transfer pathways to the liberal arts initiative
Cabrini Legacy CorporationRadnor, PACharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $20.5M · through 2023Largest: $326,488 to STEPINAC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — transfer of mastronardi scholarship fund for future stewardship
California State University FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.7M to TRUSTEES OF THE CSU — $75,000.00- transfer spa ecmc fdn grant 11/22$1,150,000.00- transfer to spa gates foundation$670,000.00-spa grad initiative 2025$125,000.00- spa cff grant 9/1/22-8/31/23$300,000.00…
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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 →