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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 “cameroon”
Where the money went
Largest: $1,800 to NATURE CARE CAMEROON — enhancing habitat connectivity between montane forest communities in the bamenda highlands of cameroon
Largest: $460,900 to FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME — support for forest peoples land rights and landscape governance for ape conservation in lobeke national park, cameroon; messok-dja, republic of congo; kahuzi-biega national park, d…
Largest: $31,300 to OMPRAKASH INC — meg wah cameroon's ecokids program
Largest: $79,700 to MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY — toward expenses of the saving the lives of internally displaced mothers & children project, to expand and provide lifesaving health services and education in rural nw cameroon comm…
Largest: $19,062 to WANDUSOA ORGANIC CAMEROON DEVELOPMENT — efforts to preserve and restore topsoil in cameroon
Emile G Nguimfack FoundationBrooklyn Center, MN
4 matching grants · $80,234 · through 2025Largest: $40,000 to Claritan Ministries Cameroon — program and humanitarian support
Largest: $350,000 to PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC — for support to expand macro-level solutions for women's economic empowerment in cameroon, burkina faso, and tanzania
Largest: $12,500 to HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE — grant to provide basic healthcare to women in cameroon
Largest: $11,000 to SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS - CAMEROON — food, clothing and educational assistance
Largest: $2,000 to CARITAS CAMEROON - BUEA CATHOLIC DIOCESE — build catholic churches in buea cameroon and help the needy
Living Water ProjectBrentwood, TNCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $421,980 · through 2025Largest: $116,600 to Final Command Ministries — to dig 29 clean water wells in mali, cameroon and nigeria to provide water access to approximately 8700 people
Largest: $50,000 to Medicines for Humanity — med and clinics for cameroon women and children
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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 →

