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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 “widener”
Where the money went
Widener Memorial Foundation in AidPlymouth Meeting, PA
21 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $190,000 to SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — funding for widener memorial school's summer program
Largest: $16,575 to MICHAEL WIDENER — educational scholarship
Largest: $109,952 to Widener University — healthcare workforce - nursing scholarships (nurses for tomorrow)
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $193,426 · through 2024Largest: $120,738 to WIDENER UNIVERSITY — education/research
Pennsylvania Interest On LawyerHarrisburg, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $711,200 · through 2024Largest: $177,800 to WIDENER UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH LAW SCHOOL — legal assistance
Largest: $809,445 to WIDENER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — general operating
Largest: $79,000 to l'Institut d'Economie Rurale — widening the window for crop-livestock intensification by combining quality grains and crop residues for improving smallholder farmers' livelihood in mali
Delaware County Bar AssociationMedia, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $41,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — scholarship assist
Wilson Geraldine Diehl FoundationFort Washington, PA
3 matching grants · $42,000 · through 2023Largest: $15,593 to WIDENER UNIVERSITY — scholarship on behalf of skyler kania
Largest: $7,500 to KYLE LONG WIDENER UNIVERSITY BURSAR — educational scholarship
Largest: $147,010 to TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY — leverage a multi-year, integrated research partnership training experience for texas state university (txst) students to widen graduate pathways and foster systemic change at both …
Largest: $15,000 to WIDENER UNIVERSITY — the mural project
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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 →