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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 “trapping”
Where the money went
Midway USA FoundationColumbia, MOCharity · may take applications
122 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $48,302 to OKOBOJI AIM TRAP TEAM — to fund youth shooting sports
Gypsy Moth Slow the Spread FoundationRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
51 matching grants · $13.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE — gypsy moth slow the spread trapping & treatment
The Foundation for Youth FirearmsAberdeen, SDCharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $114,700 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to DEUEL AREA CLAY TARGET ASSOCIATION — purchase targets and ammunition and keet and trap throwers
Nra FoundationFairfax, VACharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $136,793 · through 2024Largest: $27,000 to Fresno Trap & Skeet — range improvements
Largest: $1.4M to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — to develop a method to form a trapped gas of ultracold francium-silver molecules, and a scheme to use these molecules to detect time-asymmetric forces in the atomic nucleus with se…
The Matthew Korn and Cynthia Miller Family FoundationMcLean, VA
9 matching grants · $832,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts — to support the wolf trap foundation general operating fund.
Largest: $2,000 to NEPA PET FUND & RESCUE — funds for low-income community spay/neuter, trap-neuter-vaccinate-release (tnvr), emergency/routine vet care for fosters, tnvr humane traps.
Largest: $200,000 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to study an electric-dipole-moment (edm) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped sroh, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upper limit on the electron e…
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $58,500 · through 2024Largest: $6,500 to MID-CITIES COMMUNITY CATS — for medical care of the feral cats served through the trap-neuter-vaccinate-return program
Largest: $22,000 to University of Idaho Foundation — how do hunting & trapping
Largest: $40,000 to NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC - CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARY & BLAIR AUDUBON — for research supplies for ecological monitoring including fish traps, drone accessories for aerial monitoring wood storks in sw fl, and safety gear to support wildlife management
Largest: $100,000 to WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — 2022-2023 wolf trap institute early stem/arts
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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 →