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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 “winning”
Where the money went
Largest: $250,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — core support for coworker.org to provide a laboratory for workers to experiment with power-building strategies and win meaningful changes in the 21st-century economy, and for the e…
Largest: $800,000 to STICHTING WOMEN WIN — advancing lgbtqi rights
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2024Largest: $350,000 to WOMEN WIN FOUNDATION INC — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Open Society Policy CenterNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $20.9M · through 2024Largest: $12.8M to WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND — support policy advocacy
Largest: $25,000 to Women Winning — to build capacity of women winning, which supports women running and winning for public office as well as changing the narrative of women's leadership in elected offices and govern…
Largest: $2.7M to UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME — to support mayors challenge winning cities
Largest: $100,000 to TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — for the win project
Largest: $125,000 to STICHTING WOMEN WIN — to support the charitable activities of the funder learning and action co-laboratory on gender, environmental and climate justice (flac)
Largest: $100,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE CHICAGO — 2024 paul purcell kids win annual baird education grant recipient
Largest: $181,453 to NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC — to honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $553,650 · through 2023Largest: $145,000 to KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — multiple grants: to provide organizational support to engage in a six month collaborative planning process to create a blueprint and strategy to win a reimagined future for system …
Vose River Charitable FundBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $220,000 · through 2024Largest: $22,000 to STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA — to support the recruitment of local health departments for ph wins
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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 →