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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 “widows”
Where the money went
Largest: $34,715 to ROSIE'S PLACE — assistance to poor widows residing in the city of boston
Air Force Villages Charitable FoundationSan Antonio, TXCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $10.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to BST SENIOR LIVING EAST INC — widows assistance, building, research
Air Force VillagesSan Antonio, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2022Largest: $1.2M to ALZHEIMER'S CARE & RESEARCH CENTER — widows assistance, building, research
Largest: $1.2M to WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — to provide pensions to retired ministers and widows and dependent children of deceased ministers.
Largest: $66,000 to PAROCHIAL MEDICAL CENTER — widow & hardship fund
Largest: $234,000 to Ministerios Gente Nueva AR — help poor, childrenand widows. teachchristian gospel.
Largest: $75,000 to VARIOUS COMMUNITY WIDOWS — widow assistance
Largest: $102,716 to ALMA — support orphanage, build churches and provide assistance to orphans, widows and evangelists. drill water wells. provide medical support, bicycles, sewing machines and college tuiti…
Largest: $7,174 to Cherub Charitable Trust — medical aid for under privilaged school supplies widows support tution fee evangelism ,orphange support ,feeding program,media gospel ministies
Largest: $265,000 to HANDS AT WORK — provide for orphans, widows and children dying in africa
India PartnersEugene, ORCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $142,087 · through 2024Largest: $82,203 to Barefoot Media Ministries — child & widow, development programs.
Largest: $2,000 to JOAN PROSISE — suplemental support for ministers and retired ministers-widow of jeff prosise
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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 →