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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 “unique”
Where the money went
Largest: $87,000 to COFFEYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — unique spaces
Hyde Park Art CenterChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $360,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to ROMAN SUSAN ART FOUNDATION — provides artist-run initiatives, collaborations, and independent organizations with flexible funding to pursue their unique visions.
Dallas Center for the Performing ArtsDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $245,250 · through 2024Largest: $11,000 to UPTOWN PLAYERS INC — new works, commissions, unique presentations
Largest: $1.6M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — to support postdoctoral fellows at the black hole initiative, a unique interdisciplinary center bringing together investigators from astronomy, physics, mathematics, and philosophy…
Largest: $10,000 to Blue Planet Foundation — we believe that youth will play a critical role in the clean energy transformation. blue planet's climate crew program aims to empower a coalition of youth leaders from across hawa…
Largest: $240,000 to American Institute for Boys and Men — to support the advancement of research, policy, and awareness around the unique educational needs of boys and how systems and classrooms should respond to meet these needs.
Largest: $200,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — core support for research and communications work to shape stronger and more explicit gender justice approaches in the criminal legal system, reduce women's incarceration rates, an…
Largest: $800,000 to CRISTO REY - ORLANDO HIGH SCHOOL — to assist in empowering thousands of students from underserved, low-income communities to develop their minds and hearts to become lifelong contributors to society. by providing st…
Largest: $1.0M to CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — to support the post-acquisition transition of the chicago sun-times into chicago public media, in order to support chicago media and learn from a unique model that could potentiall…
Largest: $312,500 to SPORTS & EXHIBITION AUTHORITY OF PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY — to create culturally relevant and inspiring public open spaces that are welcoming to all and convey the unique cultural legacy of the lower hill district
Largest: $100,000 to HEART OF A LOPE — to assist this unique organization in raising funds for various organized charities.
Largest: $189,302 to JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCH OF PUB HLT — 80315 conducting meetings and seminars to discuss the unique considerations for advancing community-engaged research aimed at dismantling structural racism
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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 →