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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 “variety”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,400 to UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — syzygies of algebraic varieties and geometry of secant varieties
Langley for Families -Newport News, VACharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $582,367 · through 2025Largest: $109,272 to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DAUGHTER — contributed funds to assist a variety of local 501(c)(3) healthcare organizations providing healthcare services to adults and children, prevent high risk pregnancies and care for p…
CenterlinkFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
37 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $6,400 to BRADBURY SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — to expand the variety, quality and accessibility of mental health in alcohol use disparities among diverse sexual minority youth. to collect comments in support of section 1557 of …
Largest: $158,621 to VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF EASTERN TN — q2 2022 board minute approvals - 2022 variety golf tournament
Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesDes Moines, IACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $404,012 · through 2024Largest: $5,200 to VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — 2024 variety contribution
Largest: $385,500 to GREATER HORIZONS — to support various public charities on a wide variety of causes
Conservation International FoundationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $15.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.4M to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — regenerative & wildlife friendly fibers that improve livelihoods, conserve wildlife & build resilience to environmental change in patagonia; strengthening marine protected area man…
Largest: $3.5M to Northwestern University — to support a variety of medical research.
Largest: $1.6M to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE — center for health policy research - supporting survey development: to support the development of a statewide population health survey that provides statewide, county and sub-county…
Largest: $172,000 to Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources — strengthening farmer-managed seed systems for improved seed quality and access to preferred varieties in malawi
Largest: $850,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — in support of developing a double angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy instrument capable of detecting entangled pairs of electrons and revealing the nature of electron correl…
Widener Memorial Foundation in AidPlymouth Meeting, PA
8 matching grants · $530,720 · through 2024Largest: $95,240 to VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — funding to provide recreational, educational and vocational training to youth and young adults with orthopedic and other diabilities
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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 →