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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 “validation”
Where the money went
Largest: $480,500 to WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL — multi-site validation study of eye tracking-based measure of autism symptom severity
Largest: $2.0M to CONSERVATION X LABS INC — in support of developing empirically validated multimodal and autonomous ai models that will accelerate the speed and scale of scientific research.
Largest: $1.4M to MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — validation of wireless thermal and microscopic imaging technology for quantifying inflammation and fibrosis in crohns disease
Largest: $634,550 to Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development — to support the validation fund that will respond to the need for early-stage capital by closing the validation capital gap in northwest arkansas.
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2025Largest: $258,750 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — exploring novel drug candidates for alzheimer's disease through integrative pathway analysis and validation in 3d cellular models (cfsf supplement)
Largest: $165,437 to URBAN INSTITUTE — to build and test a prototype validation server that enables privacy-preserving research on administrative tax data
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
7 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $625,514 to THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — valete pilot study: validation of cancer early detection via blood testing
Largest: $100,000 to Fundacin Aliados — case study research, enabling rural farm enterprises to improve local livelihoods and increase ecosystem services; and to enable a farmer research network to validate agroecologica…
Largest: $49,992 to MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS — 79515 validating and disseminating findings of mujeres unidas y activas' study of its theory and practice of base-building and leadership development
Association of Public HealthBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $781,373 · through 2024Largest: $367,812 to TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH — to facilitate a second-tier screen for cah to decrease the number of false positive results reported and improve our positive predictive value. our current overall ppv is less than…
National Anti-Vivisection SocietyChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $800,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ETHICAL RESEARCH — to support the development, validation and implementation of alternatives that replace the use of animals in research, testing and education.
Clean Slate InitiativeOrlando, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $495,305 to HOWARD UNIVERSITY — csi funds objective, validated research to evaluate the impacts of clean slate policies and inform eligibility criteria, while examining how record clearance affects economic and s…
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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 →