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12 funders with a record of paying for “composition”
Where the money went
Largest: $80,000 to RAFAEL ROSA — music composition
Largest: $15,000 to SUNGJI HONG — charles ives fellowship in music composition to an outstanding young composer
Largest: $200,000 to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — investigating symbol-like reasoning in the brain: neural mechanisms of compositional action planning
Largest: $18,000 to EMMA M HILL — fellowship - music composition
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to ReForm Composites Engineering LLC — establishing continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic (cfrtp) composite engineering & manufacturing capabilities in maine.
Largest: $2.4M to TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — in support of research to develop an innovative instrument that will enable researchers unprecedented access to the chemical composition and distribution of small molecules within …
Largest: $2.0M to LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIO — to support commissions of new compositions and general support of orchestra.
Largest: $250,000 to AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC — expanding research on the biolmolecular composition of food and its links to agricultural practices
Center for the Advancement ofMerritt Island, FLCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $265,765 · through 2022Largest: $66,060 to LEIDOS INC — studies the formation and microstructure of ceramic-nanomaterial composites under microgravity to produce novel high-temperature, porous, conductive materials.
Largest: $49,000 to WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — ultra high-performance waterproof sealer compositions and methods for concrete preservation
Largest: $67,500 to Guttmacher Institute — documenting the composition of clinicians providin
Great Lakes Observing System Regional AssociationAnn Arbor, MICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $226,421 · through 2024Largest: $103,646 to Florida Atlantic University — an autonomous digital holographic imaging system for detecting cyanobacterial composition abundance in lake erie
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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 →