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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 “wealth”
Where the money went
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
69 matching grants · $21.0M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to AMERICANS FOR FINANCIAL REFORM EDUCATION FUND — transform the us financial system and end practices that amplify the racial wealth gap, increase inequality and precarity, harm working people, and punish people for lack of income…
Largest: $223,500 to COMMUNITY WEALTH PARTNERS — to enable community wealth partners to serve as the design partner and program manager for the third round of the fueling urban equitable leadership (fuel) program.
Largest: $831,221 to MA INST OF TECH DEPT OF URBAN STUDIES & — 79964 studying the health and wealth-building impact of community-driven interventions against structural racism in the housing market
Largest: $300,000 to (695) BOSTON FOUNDATION INC — racial wealth equity: to support capacity building for its boston indicators program and the launch of the racial wealth gap and economic security research initiative
Largest: $1.0M to THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — to support the aspen institute in reimagining work, wealth and capitalism to improve the financial well-being of all workers and reduce the racial wealth gap.
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $36.9M · through 2022Largest: $7.2M to Chicago Urban League — support of the mcdonald's chicago community impact grants program, matching the contribution of charles matthews, pgl employee. general operating support. support to empower mid-ca…
Largest: $15,000 to Build Wealth MN Inc — for general operating support in recognition of build wealth minnesota's contribution to the groundbreak coalition's work groups
Largest: $10,000 to FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY BENEFITS SERVICES INC AKA MADONNA FOUNDATION — toward expenses of the madonna scholars program, to provide access to quality education and college readiness programming for at-risk and underserved teen girls from low-wealth fam…
Largest: $100,000 to BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — potrero youth wealth initiative (wealth = wisdom, education, and leadership for thriving households)
Largest: $125,000 to CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT — black women's think tank - improving equity and health: to support a planning process to develop a black health and wealth fund that addresses historical health and wealth inequiti…
Largest: $150,000 to ATLANTA WEALTH BUILDING INITIATIVE — support atlanta wealth building initiative's data solutions to address the state of black wealth in atlanta
Largest: $50.0M to NDN COLLECTIVE INC — ndn collective is one of two steward organizations selected to design and administer a $100 million community trust fund seeded by the bush foundation to address wealth disparities…
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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 →