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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 “unwanted”
Where the money went
Largest: $360,000 to COLUMBIA ANIMAL SHELTER — rescue of unwanted animals
National Center for Youth LawOakland, CACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $256,318 to Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc — to support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the…
Largest: $100,000 to HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — rescue and adopt unwanted animals
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
3 matching grants · $3.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.0M to NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW — to support a collective impact campaign that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care, economic assets/financial supports, improve wellbeing outcomes, and reduce…
Largest: $5,000 to POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIET — to care for and place unwanted and abandoned animals in loving homes
Largest: $25,000 to Galveston Island Humane Society Inc — for promoting animal welfare and the protection and prevention of unwanted or homeless animals
Quad Cities Golf Classic CharitableEast Moline, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $47,400 · through 2024Largest: $14,677 to FRIENDS OF STRAYS — no-kill animal shelter - rescue and rehome abused and unwanted cats and dogs
Largest: $10,000 to MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY — general operations of the animal shelter for homeless, abondoned, and unwanted animals. more specifically, for their catch and release program to assist with the cost of spaying an…
Largest: $25,000 to PREVENT UNWANTED PETS - PUPS - DONATION (CK 1383) — educational and community support
Largest: $22,000 to LAURENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — support of a no-kill shelter for abandoned or unwanted animals
Largest: $3,000 to Spirit Horse Equine Rescue — rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of unwanted equines
Largest: $22,600 to Neigh Sayers Foundation — support efforts to rehome unwanted horses.
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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 →