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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 “variability”
Where the money went
Largest: $119,788 to MIT — international brain laboratory (ibl); spi fee: neural circuit dynamics underlying sequence and variability; spi giocomo: remapping across time, space and region
The Boot CampaignDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $128,575 · through 2024Largest: $45,250 to CORE PERFORMANCE LLC — heart rate variability sessions
Largest: $950,000 to TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — to support efforts to operate the all-sky monitoring system hatpi, develop a data pipeline to release all photometric data to the public, and search for giant exoplanets and variab…
Largest: $42,504 to Columbia University — impact of climate variability on foreign animal disease: forecasting highly pathogenic avian influenza
Alpern Family FoundationHuntington Station, NY
4 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2025Largest: $15,000 to DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION — general operating support
Largest: $134,053 to LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — this project uses interrupted time series and difference-in-differences designs to measure the effect of statewide policy changes on the use of monetary bail, level of pre-trial de…
Largest: $203,000 to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — to study the impact of atmospheric variability and shallow hydrology on the flow dynamics and mass budget of the helheim glacier
Allied Media ProjectsDetroit, MICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $88,500 · through 2024Largest: $43,500 to AMELIA RINA SECHMAN — has awarded variable west a $43,500 grant for its online publication.
West Harlem Development CorporationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $80,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION — to support "dance connects seniors," a year-around initiative of free dance activities impacting health, positive sense of self, and social connection, in partnership with mcb9 ven…
Largest: $35,000 to DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION — to further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
Largest: $26,000 to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE ST — science and education
Maryland Hospital AssociationElkridge, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $62,318 · through 2024Largest: $21,003 to MARYLAND HEALTHCARE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — the grant was provided to cover the costs of executive variable pay compensation.
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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 →