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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 “yale”
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The Community Foundation for Greater NewNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
51 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND HEALTH EQUITY — to support the creation of a community-engaged, competitive process to engage, select, and fund yale investigators to conduct cancer research to determine the fundamental cause of,…
Largest: $219,995 to YALE UNIVERSITY — 2019 simons foundation powering autism research for knowledge (spark) clinical site network - yale university
Largest: $329,626 to YALE UNIVERSITY — 80949 creating model systems of cultural objects for the study of social inequalities
Largest: $100,000 to YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ITF SHAH NI — scholarship - samvid scholars program - cohort 1
Largest: $125,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — robert blocker scholarship fund to provide financial aid to students within the yale school of music
Largest: $190,274 to Yale University — pozen-commonwealth fund fellowship in health equity leadership at yale university 2021-2023
Largest: $20,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to provide support for a senior research fellow in residence at the arthur liman center for public interest law at the yale school of law.
Largest: $299,903 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to generate novel research and advance a multi-disciplinary research network that increases understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of the digital economy
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2023Largest: $870,750 to Yale University — to support cafe lab's animal agriculture accountability project. general operating support. contribution to annual fund for yale divinity school, scholarship aid for yale divinity …
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $18.7M · through 2024Largest: $9,914 to YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — subaward - sponsored research
Largest: $348,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — to advance the study of the rules and norms that govern the new digital public sphere of social media through support of the yale information society project at yale law school.
The New York Community TrustNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $25.3M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — for a fellowship program.
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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 →