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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 “wide”
Where the money went
Philadelphia Hospitality Investment LevyPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $11.5M · through 2025Largest: $4.2M to Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau — support city-wide convention and events
Largest: $217,500 to HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — private nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is to promote the practice of charitable giving and volunteering or to represent and serve a wide range of philanthropic and c…
Largest: $3.8M to National Alliance for Public Charter Schools — to support napcs programming, including federal and state-specific policy and coalitions work, sector-wide communications efforts, a legal action fund, and a variety of research an…
Largest: $180,000 to NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — support for the continued implementation of a district-wide real world learning strategic plan to increase the number of graduates leaving high school ready for learning, work, and…
2-1-1 New YorkLatham, NYCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2024Largest: $605,847 to UNITED WAY OF THE WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — to lead and oversee the development and operation of a state-wide, free, health and human services information and referral system, accessible through the 2-1-1 dialing code.
Largest: $72,000 to Wide Angle Youth Media — support wide angle youth apprenticeships & pathways
Barnard CollegeNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
22 matching grants · $960,851 · through 2024Largest: $149,988 to BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM — mri consortium: development of a wide field-of-view camera for the schwarzschild-couder gamma ray telescope
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
23 matching grants · $6.0M · through 2022Largest: $1.0M to NEW VENTURE FUND — advance education and racial equity by strengthening capacity, infrastructure, and field-wide collaboration among and in support of parent- and community-led grassroots organizing …
Largest: $230,000 to ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM — core support for building erf npio dubai's institutional capacity to undertake region-wide projects dedicated to promoting high-quality economic research, and project support for r…
Largest: $1.3M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — in support of research to develop and implement nanoscale nitrogen-vacancy nuclear magnetic resonance (nv-nmr) and magnetic resonance imaging (nv-mri) with potential wide ranging i…
Largest: $200,000 to WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION — support continued operations for the world wide web foundation as it executes a back to basics strategic repositioning.
Largest: $385,500 to GREATER HORIZONS — to support various public charities on a wide variety of causes
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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 →