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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 “aspire”
Where the money went
Largest: $10,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - M OWENS — aspire scholarship
Largest: $400,000 to ASPIRATION — core support for the coalition for independent technology research to advance, defend, and sustain ethical research that will support evidence-based governance of digital technolog…
Largest: $350,000 to Entrepreneurship for All Inc — to renew the pilot project of eforall northwest arkansas - a program that will provide entrepreneurial training, technical assistance and social capital for current and aspiring un…
Iowa West FoundationCouncil Bluffs, IA
15 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $297,657 to COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — aspire investments - stars
Largest: $207,560 to Old-Town Orono YMCA — aspirations incubator program
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $110,000 to ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — advised - for advocacy work. advised - for general operating support of aspire public schools foundation.
Largest: $61,600 to AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION — to provide overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
Largest: $10,000 to SEVEN HILLS ASPIRE — aspire! workforce readiness and employment program
Largest: $2.2M to CLEVELAND CLINICASPIRE — aspire scholarships, program adminstrative costs
Largest: $181,102 to Foundation For Excellence India Trust — scholarship support for cohort 1 of dell aspire scholars
Michigan College Access NetworkLansing, MICharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $196,150 · through 2023Largest: $36,000 to BAY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — college planning course, aspire grant, activate grant, college bound michigan grant
Largest: $60,000 to MGH ASPIRE — program support
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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 →