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12 funders with a record of paying for “transparency”
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John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
101 matching grants · $20.0M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Center for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch — to develop a transparency integrity index for federal ministries, departments, and agencies in nigeria.
Largest: $270,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — to make the transparency in coverage data (i.e., health insurer price transparency) more available to a wide audience including policymakers and researchers by standardizing the da…
Largest: $300,000 to TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA — for the accountable mining program to generate knowledge and engagement with chinese mining companies, associations and civil society to improve transparency and governance of chin…
Largest: $100,000 to PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPARENCY FUND INC — to support transparency and quality in international finance in order to benefit communities suffering from extreme poverty by advocating for stronger reliance on locally-driven ci…
Largest: $500,000 to FISHERIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE (FITI) — to increase public availability of fisheries management information and to promote enabling conditions that demand, utilize and incentivize online government transparency.
Largest: $250,000 to FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT — for the fact coalition's research, outreach, and engagement to support tax transparency standards
Largest: $200,000 to IDEAS — to support deepening research into financial transparency.
Largest: $250,000 to BROWN UNIVERSITY — 82177 using transparency in coverage data to build on work promoting transparency in comparing hospital prices across insurers
Largest: $475,000 to New Venture Fund — to amplify research to transparently identify the use of federal covid-19 relief stimulus funds across the country.
Largest: $800,000 to Trustees of Boston University — to support research and increased transparency on the impacts of chinese-backed development finance in the global economy.
Largest: $225,000 to FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT — financial accountability and corporate transparency coalition's tax justice advocacy
Largest: $915,000 to PROTEUS FUND INC — to support the transparency and accountability initiative donor collaborative, a fiscally-sponsored project of the grantee, to assist its members to strengthen the impact and effec…
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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 →