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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 “edge”
Where the money went
National Arbor Day FoundationLincoln, NECharity · may take applications
377 matching grants · $20.4M · through 2024Largest: $218,752 to TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION — encourage and facilitate the adoption of leading-edge practices in municipal forests including inventory, planting, maintenance and education.encourage and facilitate the adoption …
Largest: $600,000 to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVER — cutting edge scientific and medical innovation & research
Oberlin CollegeOberlin, OHCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $449,798 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to REwild — green edge fund grant - natural turf management transition pilot project
Largest: $40,000 to MAINE SEA COAST MISSION — for the edge program in support of the after school program at the rose m. gaffney school in machias.
William Raveis Charitable FundShelton, CTCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $393,244 to DAMON RUNYON CANCER — to support cutting-edge research to find treatments and cures for all forms of cancer
AlliancechicagoChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $760,410 · through 2024Largest: $18,705 to HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — chicago center for diabetes translation research, leading edge acceleration projects (leap) in health information technology, nachc hiv cds/eprompt, cdph adult tobacco cessation
Largest: $200,000 to NONPROFIT INFORMATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATION — general support and core support for edge leadership to convene people to cross boundaries and create new social order
Largest: $34,500 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to bring together and support junior scholars conducting cutting edge causal research on criminal justice issues in grantee's law, economics, and policy seminar, with the overall g…
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $570,047 · through 2023Largest: $20,250 to Edgeli Inc — in 2021, over 1400 gw of electrical power projects, the majority of which were renewable energy projects, were stuck in the grid interconnection queues of utilities throughout the …
Largest: $1.5M to FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — to support a final round of the humanities edge program, a partnership between miami dade college and florida international university
Largest: $135,695 to RIVER'S EDGE HOSPITAL AND CLINIC — tele-emergency services for river's edge hospital
Rosenberg FoundationSan Francisco, CA
6 matching grants · $280,000 · through 2024Largest: $83,334 to ARIA SA-ID LEADING EDGE FELLOWSHIP — fellowship grant
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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 →