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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 “wages”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.3M to FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES — pathways - investment to create pathways to family wage-earning jobs in los angeles
Minnesota Technology AssociationMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
83 matching grants · $755,137 · through 2024Largest: $17,490 to ADVISORY AEROSPACE OSC — scitech wage support
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
42 matching grants · $14.5M · through 2024Largest: $654,166 to NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT INC — support low-wage workers in precarious work structures via technical assistance, legal support, and policy research to achieve improved working conditions as well as both increased…
Largest: $30,000 to IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — not to be used for wages and salaries
Worksource MontgomeryRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
53 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to FREDDY'S LAWN SERVICE & LANDSCAPING — participant wages
Largest: $250,000 to UNITED FOR RESPECT EDUCATION FUND — core support to educate low-wage workers on their voting rights across states with focus, as low wage workers are facing heightened levels of misinformation and intimidation.
Largest: $600,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — for use by its department of urban studies and planning in support of expanding the mit living wage tool, a calculator that provides regional cost-of-living estimates, to help boos…
Largest: $9,000 to PITTSBURGH U OF SCH OF SOCIAL WORK — 76976 studying the impact of wage increases on low-wage workers' access to public benefits and the consequent ability to provide for their young children
Largest: $3.0M to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — for the families and workers fund, to support efforts to advance good jobs and equitable, effective public benefits for low-wage workers in california and nationwide.
Resource ConnectionsLanham, MDCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2021Largest: $674,204 to THE ARC PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC — direct support wage supplement
Pennsylvania Association ofHarrisburg, PACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $142,933 to CHESTER COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRIC — wage reimbursement
United for Respect Education FundSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $496,916 · through 2021Largest: $10,000 to One Fair Wage — empower low wage workers
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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 →