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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 “undertaken”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to Solid Africa — grant will used to provide funds for the installation of a water filtration system and to help educate and create behavioral changes among patients, care givers and hospital person…
Largest: $200,000 to GEORGIA STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOR NEW DIRECTIONS AND UNIFIED POLICIES INC — core support for southern worker power to ensure worker security, dignity, and fair value for all work undertaken.
Largest: $300,000 to FREEDOM LIFE MINISTRIES — this grant will support a collaborative planning process undertaken by freedom life ministries in partnership with mcdowell county and avery county for opioid settlement funding.
Sinquefield Center for ResearchSt Louis, MOCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $9.4M · through 2024Largest: $9.4M to STLOUIS UNIVERSITY (SLU) — organization's governing body specifically identifies research projects to be undertaken by designated members of the slu academic community and exclusively earmarks funds for thos…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $4.2M · through 2023Largest: $4.2M to UCSF FOUNDATION — to support the children's hospital & research center at oakland. for an endowed fund to purchase medical and scientific equipment at mount zion medical. to support the ucsf citywid…
The Connecticut Community FoundationWaterbury, CTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $55,126 · through 2024Largest: $35,126 to PARK CENTRAL — with preference for any special projects undertaken by the organization.
Largest: $2.5M to THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — to support the museum's plans in the area of modern and contemporary art specifically for the costs associated with the construction, maintenance, operations, programming, or other…
Largest: $1,250 to ANIMAL GRANTMAKERS — support the effectiveness of work undertaken by animal protection funders
Largest: $12,500 to THE PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES — to support festival activities undertaken in 2022-23 that aim to make downtown pittsburgh a more vibrant and family-friendly community
Natural Resources Foundation ofMadison, WICharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $10,984 · through 2024Largest: $5,548 to DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE — to support the management, protection, and restoration of the greater prairie chicken and its habitat in wisconsin, with special emphasis on projects undertaken by the wisconsin de…
Largest: $1.2M to OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — on-going land conservation and greenway trail projects undertaken by the grantee in the shawangunk mountain region of new york state
Largest: $25,000 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTRE — 2024 nearness of you benefit - in support of the bone marrow and blood disease gift fund, supporting cancer research being undertaken at the labs of dr siddhartha mukherjee and dr …
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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 →