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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.

2 funders with a record of paying for “underprivieged”

Where the money went

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Ken W Davis Foundation → Happy Hill Farm Children Home: $8K across 1 grant, latest 2023Frontier Foundation → Kyunggi Foundation: $3K across 1 grant, latest 2024Frontier Foundation → Chan Ho Park Foundation: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2024Frontier Foundation → Shema Stella Foundation: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2024Ken W Davis Foundation: $8K on this topic. Open the funder.Ken W Davis Foundation$8KFrontier Foundation: $7K on this topic. Open the funder.Frontier Foundation$7KHappy Hill Farm Children Home: received $8K on this topicHappy Hill Farm Children Home$8KKyunggi Foundation: received $3K on this topicKyunggi Foundation$3KChan Ho Park Foundation: received $2K on this topicChan Ho Park Foundation$2KShema Stella Foundation: received $2K on this topicShema Stella Foundation$2K
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 20192025. 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 →