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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 “unrelated”
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Retirement Housing FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to WARREN CHAPEL CME CHURCH — donation to unrelated charitable organization
Largest: $500,000 to INDIVIDUAL GRANTEES UNDER LACK OF F — the foundation's grant-making procedures for grants to artists who lack financial resources for full utilization of their artistic talent was approved by the internal revenue servi…
Largest: $250,000 to BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL — to support the highest quality patient care with unrelenting attention to clinical excellence, patient satisfaction and patient safety.
Largest: $21,075 to CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION PAID TO UNRELATED 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION — charitable contribution paid to unrelated 501(c)(3) organization
Largest: $3,300 to Armenian Bone Marrow Registry — to save lives by recruiting and providing matched unrelated donors for bone marrow or stem cell transplantation.
Largest: $2.5M to JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION — during the year, the foundation made a charitable grant to the jacobs center for neighborhood innovation ("jcni"), a california nonprofit public benefit corporation recognized as a…
Largest: $3,950 to Various Unrelated Donees Grants less than 1000 each — for assistance to low income families
Fall River Jewish HomeBarrington, RICharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $2.3M · through 2023Largest: $2.3M to JEWISH OMNI SERVICES INC — in july 2022, the organization was sold to an unrelated party, which lead the entity to grant its remaining net assets during 2023 to jewish omni services, inc. a related non-profi…
Largest: $3,750 to JAZZ ASPEN — to identify and assist the most talented artists embracing jazz fundamentally while exploring myriad related & unrelated forms of music at the highest level of quality.
Largest: $419,818 to Veterans for Ukraine — charitable activities to support the effects of war in ukraine such as to help orphans and people impacted by the war. any charity supported in ukraine or through this ukraine char…
Largest: $42,000 to LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI — unrelated general support
The Ivy FoundationSchererville, IN
1 matching grant · $3,600 · through 2024Largest: $3,600 to PEARLA GARCIA — on 11/5/2024, the foundation issued a grant of $3,600 to perla garcia, intended to support her educational expenses as a student at midway training institute, which is owned by the…
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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 →