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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 “zhang”
Where the money went
Largest: $15,000 to ZHANG NICOLE T — fellowship stipend
Largest: $100,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — scholar program (dr. zhang)
Largest: $21,197 to University of California-Riverside — scholarships for krisi patel ($1,666), paola reyes ($5,000), dalia salgado ($5,000), muhammad shakeel ($1,666), raneen yalda ($7,365), and qinghan zhang ($500)
Largest: $1,500 to WILLIAM ZHANG — scholarships to lexington youths
Largest: $2,000 to K Zhang — educational scholarship
Largest: $345,000 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DR XIAOYU ZHANG — the ono pharma breakthrough science intitiative awards program
Largest: $150,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - ZHANG LAB — to support feng zhang's research project structural protein mining to discover molecular "gems".
Global Academy of Science and ArtsMountain View, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Shoucheng Zhang Foundation — support shoucheng zhang foundation
Largest: $8,181 to ALICIA ZHANG — educational scholarship
Largest: $75,000 to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — alfred p. sloan research fellowship for sen zhang in chemistry
Largest: $250,000 to BCM - Dr Xiang Shawn Zhang — dr. xiang "shawn" zhang, a designated mcnair scholar at baylor college of medicine, conducts research with focuses on two general areas: breast cancer bone metastasis and tumor imm…
Largest: $67,833 to LIXUN ZHANG PHD — medical research grant
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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 →