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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 “wash”
Where the money went
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
22 matching grants · $11.2M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to AFRICAN WATER AND SANITATION ASSOCIATION — to scope opportunities to scale up district wash master planning, facilitate peer-to-peer exchange among rural water service providers, and create a rural wash fellowship program
Largest: $180,000 to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA — water institute: research/advocacy and cop for wash in healthcare facilities
Largest: $1.8M to Global Water Challenge — transformative wash initiatives 2025 in bolivia, b razil, ecuador and mexico
Largest: $2,000 to GHANA WASH JOURNALISTS NETWORK — support ghana wash journalist network's wash projects and initiatives in ghana
Largest: $50,000 to BASIC NEEDS INC OF S WASH CO — food rescue market
Largest: $7.0M to ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA — alaska wash project
Largest: $77,500 to MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY — toward expenses of cameroon in crisis: delivering support for internally displaced mothers & children (idps) program, to expand covid-19 understanding and vaccine knowledge, improv…
Largest: $55,000 to FIFTY FIFITY INITATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT — champion gender mainstreaming and equal representation of men and women in public life through education, skills development, research, and policy advocacy in ghana. key programs i…
Largest: $200,000 to WORLD VISION INC — sesame wash up! implementation and research in india (updated from accelerating wash up! research and implementation in ghana)
Largest: $7,000 to COMM FOUNDATION OF WASH CO — distribution food to families in need
CnfaWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $5.2M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to MERCY CORPS (AMALIMA LOKO) — implements the nutrition and wash components of the amalima program;nutrition and hiv/aids
Largest: $20,500 to EDLAVITCH JEWISH CMNTY CTR WASH DC — cultural/recreational/edu programs
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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 →