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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 “workshops”
Where the money went
CodeorgSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
167 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $120,900 to ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION (AVID) — grantee to provide professional development and community building for k-12 teachers using the code.org curriculum and professional development model. funding 2022-2023 code.org co…
Largest: $312,096 to Regents of the University of California — in support of the quantemx scientist exchange program and scientific workshops to facilitate new collaborations in the quantum materials community.
Largest: $300,000 to FOREIGN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION CENTER MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMEN — for research and workshops on financial innovation for improving cooperation on climate investment and financing in asia and africa.
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
31 matching grants · $64.2M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to University of Massachusetts — to support research and publications presented as part of a workshop on the covid-19 generation: children and youth in and after the pandemic
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $88,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — grants awarded to us-based faculty or student teams for global project explorations to enhance professional development and knowledge base within the field of biomedical design and…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $13.8M · through 2023Largest: $1.5M to University of Chicago — unrestricted, matching the contribution of amber tucker, pgl employee, support for pritzker school of medicine, support for the committee on social thought: literature and philosop…
Largest: $5,000 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — to support the 13th annual workshop of the america latina crime and policy network, an established annual academic workshop with the overall goal of advancing research on the econo…
Scratch FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
63 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Harvard University — this award would support the updating and redesign of the creative computing online workshop to relaunch in 2024, the co-design of a scratch education collaborative workshop, prese…
Largest: $8,000 to FORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — hs journalism workshop
Largest: $125,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — to support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies
Largest: $750,000 to LA COCINA — to support mi oaxaca and its cultural preservation and cultural education programs through educational workshops and community-based participatory research programs focused on oaxa…
Largest: $50,000 to REBOOT INC — to support the workshop achieve its overall funding goals and put it in a position to live up to its mission, which is a arts fellowship centering the work of professional jocism a…
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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 →