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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 “yesterday”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,262 to RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC — general operating
Animal Welfare FundSalem, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $19,171 · through 2024Largest: $7,660 to YESTERDAY'S KITTENS OF MARYLAND INC — to assist in the organization's exempt purposes
Largest: $20,000 to WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR YOU WERE DEAD YESTERDAY — to support destiny cox's film project, "you were dead yesterday"
Largest: $80,000 to MCINTOSH SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — mcintosh seed's "sustainable family forests: yesterday, today and tomorrow"
Largest: $31,614 to Yesterdays Gone — purchase an rv for a family to live in
Largest: $50,000 to US BIENNIAL INCPROSPECT NEW ORLEANS — general operating support of the p.5 exhibition titled: "yesterday we said tomorrow"
Initiative FoundationLittle Falls, MNCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $13,632 · through 2023Largest: $13,632 to YESTERDAYS GONE — deed main street economic revitalization project grant
Social & Environmental EntrepreneursCalabasas, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to A BETTER DAY THAN YESTERDAY INITIATIVE PROGRAM — collaboration grant
Largest: $12,000 to THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT — toward support of our bill of rights: yesterday, today and tomorrow webinar
University ImpactProvo, UTCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $5,100 · through 2024Largest: $5,100 to Railways to Yesterday Inc — to support organization
Largest: $7,500 to LOCUS ATHENS — "who knows what yesterday will bring?" film program
Largest: $3,000 to HARTFORD DANCE COLLECTIVE — funding to support yesterday dance production
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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 →