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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 “centre”
Where the money went
Largest: $219,087 to ATAL INCUBATION CENTRE - CENTRE FOR CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY — global health and development public awareness and analysis
Largest: $500,000 to ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT — core support for the centre for well-being, inclusion, sustainability and equal opportunity (wise) to generate new data and solutions to improve peoples well-being and reduce inequ…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
141 matching grants · $44.6M · through 2024Largest: $700,000 to Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development — in support of strengthening investigative and data-driven journalism as tools for reducing corruption and enhancing accountability.
Largest: $175,083 to KITUO CHA KATIBA EASTERN AFRICA CENTRE FOR CONSTI — to support the grantee's sponsored project, ddowoolezo centre for teaching and learning, on amplification of alternative discourse and counter-narratives in africa around the domin…
Largest: $425,000 to AFRICHILD CENTRE LIMITED — program and core support for the africhild centre
Largest: $450,000 to INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE CENTRE — for research on barriers to women's economic empowerment and economic growth in low-income countries
Centre County United WayState College, PACharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $130,000 to CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU — to support education - related mission
Largest: $3.5M to CSIR CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY — in support of convening a consortium of research and clinical institutions to advance pathogen genomics to track sars-cov-2 variants and accelerate bioinformatics and global data s…
Largest: $1.0M to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY — study of microsporidian mb and malaria transmission
The Happy Valley Adventure BureauState College, PACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $608,040 · through 2024Largest: $35,000 to CENTRE COUNTY GRANGE ENCAMPMENT & FAIR - TM — tourism promotion
Largest: $385,000 to UNIVERSITY OF YORK — to support the centre for applied human rights to manage a fellowship for human rights defenders at-risk and to develop its knowledge exchange related to human rights defenders thr…
Bhp FoundationWashington, DC
12 matching grants · $14.6M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to BAN KI-MOON CENTRE — leadership development for native and indigenous youth in the americas (fellowship program) with ban ki moon centre
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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 →