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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.
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Largest: $100,000 to RESOURCE MEDIA A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — advancing narratives for health and climate justice in california: to build narrative change capacity and power among climate equity and health advocates to address persistent heal…
Illinois Primary Health Care AssociationSpringfield, ILCharity · may take applications
147 matching grants · $29.1M · through 2023Largest: $73,764 to Knox County — to improve chronic disease outcomes among chc patients, improve health insurance marketplace enrollments, and improve covid education and vaccination rates.to improve chronic disea…
Largest: $325,000 to CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH & ACTION — to support action oriented research and multi-stakeholder dialogue among researchers, experts, civil society, media and policy makers on social justice, citizen engagement and incl…
Largest: $255,555 to COLUMBIA U — 79700 studying prevalent mental health stigma in spanish media to encourage help-seeking among growing young and diverse latinx populations -- transfer
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
74 matching grants · $19.1M · through 2022Largest: $304,975 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — promote a culturally and linguistically relevant education through dissemination of research among educators, minority language communities, language scholars and policymakers
Largest: $540,000 to VETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC — to support research and the use of administrative data to help improve education and employment among veterans.
Largest: $3.0M to THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE — to support the general operations of this jewish federation, which coordinates anti-poverty work among several direct-services agencies serving the jewish community.
Largest: $75,000 to HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE — to support an artist-in-residency program to foster positive cultural identity, sense of community, and civic engagement among haitian americans, as well as increase knowledge and …
Largest: $197,000 to DEE NORTON CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — to study the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy among youth of various racial groups.
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
23 matching grants · $14.5M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY — to bolster programming to recognize aspirational aviation achievements among youth, and fostering inspiration among their peers
Largest: $225,000 to Instituto de Energia e Meio Ambiente — to support research and analysis of the sustainability of brazilian public finance of energy and electrical sector development and capacity building among civil society organizatio…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
27 matching grants · $7.0M · through 2023Largest: $591,090 to UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — to support the technological equipment needs oflick observatory. to address food insecurity among ucsc students by supporting on-campus free food pantries. in support of the instit…
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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 →