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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 “viable”
Where the money went
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $371,430 · through 2024Largest: $26,250 to Viable Gear — viable gear is a mission driven company reducing petroleum based plastics in the aquaculture and fishing industry by producing gear from seaweed-based bioplastics. driving demand f…
Largest: $130,000 to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER — general operating support: to support an organization working to build livable, economically viable, health-promoting communities and advance racial and health equity for residents…
United States Fund for UnicefNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL — see part ivfunds will be used for bill and melinda gates foundation countdown to 2030 2.0 to provide rigorous analyses on global, regional and country progress on women's children'…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
6 matching grants · $837,500 · through 2022Largest: $200,000 to SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of ensuring new orleans' ninth ward is a self-sustaining, viable community, whose residents have acce…
Denver Ballet GuildLittleton, COCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $116,000 · through 2024Largest: $31,000 to Wonderbound — to increase the quality of performing, professional dance companies; to have a financial impact on viable dance companies; and to increase the size of dance audiences.
Largest: $97,726 to College of the Atlantic — this project will research, design, build, and trial viable alternatives to plastic grow-out gear used in oyster aquaculture.
Largest: $822,500 to VIABLE — to further mission of just hope foundation
Largest: $275,000 to LINCOLN INST OF LAND POL — 79698 advancing viable economic-development pathways centered on health and racial equity for small and midsize cities
Largest: $161,250 to North Topeka Arts District Inc — establish a viable arts community in north topeka.
The Jensen ProjectDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $375,000 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to RETHREADED INC — offering viable and creative work to those affected by the sex trade i.e. prostitution, drug addiction and human traffickin. rethreaded offers the oppressed a chance to grow into t…
Largest: $101,365 to GUNUNG PALUNG ORANGUTAN CONSERVATION PROGRAM INC — support for protecting and expanding viable orangutan habitat across the gunung palung national park (gpnp) landscape and supporting customary forests to sustainably manage resourc…
Largest: $50,000 to NOFA VT — build an economically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
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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 →