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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 “tropical”
Where the money went
Largest: $4.5M to INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE — neglected tropical diseases
Largest: $301,500 to London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — to support a planetary health fellowship at the london school of hygiene & tropical medicine and stanford university.
Largest: $400,000 to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — smithsonian tropical research institute, acadia in the tropical eastern pacific intrumentation and fieldwork
Largest: $342,000 to International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics — networking4seed ii: strengthening seed systems through farmer-research networks in a context of agroecological transition in west africa
Largest: $500,000 to SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INST — the role of microbiomes in shaping the ecology and evolution of tropical forest ecosystems
Environmental Defense Fund IncorporatedNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2022Largest: $754,000 to Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc — natural climate solutions-tropical forests,global ta & fin
Largest: $2.7M to LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE — epidemiology study of long-term health outcomes associated with chronic viral infections
Largest: $250,000 to LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON — for use by its project, the research consortium, in support of research to build more equitable and cost-efficient national school-based health and nutrition programmes for the mem…
The Miami FoundationMiami, FLCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $343,497 · through 2024Largest: $53,306 to FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — program support
Largest: $300,000 to FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN — general operations
Largest: $1.0M to LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE — support to gender violence and health centre and for ipv prevention research
Largest: $100,000 to LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE — core support to undertake gbv research to better assess effective prevention models that integrate the perspective of survivors and practitioners from the global south
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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 →