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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 “tufts”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.6M to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — inclusive financial systems
Largest: $78,000 to TUFTS U — 77946 interdisciplinary research leaders cohort five - 2020
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $321,997 to TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — sponsored research sub-award
Largest: $300,000 to Tufts University — as a final grant to research and policy development on security in the middle east
Rheumatology Research FoundationAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $603,884 · through 2024Largest: $199,975 to Tufts Medical Center Inc — innovative research award - clinical
Largest: $281,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — for integrating tech and policy in cybersecurity studies
Largest: $250,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — for use by its friedman school of nutrition science and policy, toward the costs of advancing research on the impact of healthy food prescription programs on food insecure populati…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater BostonBoston, MACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $738,688 · through 2024Largest: $438,510 to Trustees of Tufts College — daf - education
Largest: $75,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — tufts university, friedman school of nutrition science and policy challenge sprints fund
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $984,218 · through 2024Largest: $168,165 to Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc — operating support/annual fund
Largest: $875,000 to TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC — practicing hope - healthy outcomes from positive experiences
Largest: $300,000 to TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER INC — to research and develop federal policy options and strategies to improve medicare's coverage with evidence development program, for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, and th…
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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 →

