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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 “female”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to NEO PHILANTHROPY — support for work to end female genital mutilation
Women'S 5k ClassicBath, PACharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $716,750 · through 2025Largest: $77,500 to ST LUKES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — education, support, and prevention of female cancers
Largest: $50,000 to VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — 2023 vail dance festival now: premieres program, feat. 4 female choreographers & 2 female composers
Largest: $15,000 to MORGAN MURDOCK — support female entrepreneur
Largest: $112,500 to INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY — rising female scholarships
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
10 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $1,000 to THE FOUNDATION FOR NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY — to support the cynthia saulter carter black female accounting endowed scholarship
Largest: $117,335 to FEMALE ACADEMIC LEADERS FELLOWSHIP — for support to create a cohort of black women academic leaders embedding their research in gender-based violence and femicide and to establish a gender-based violence chair at wits…
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $159,000 · through 2023Largest: $6,000 to TRINA AND FRIENDS K9 RESCUE — as follows: 1) $2,000 for the training of dobby, a rescued female white german shepherd; 2) $2,000 for legal expenses associated with the recovery of warlock, a pit bull rescue; 3)…
William and Janice Olds Scholarship FundBonita Springs, FL
13 matching grants · $69,000 · through 2025Largest: $6,000 to Gabrielle Netke — for female studentto attend collegein pursuit of math
Largest: $442,500 to BLACK FEMALE PROJECT INC — for support and research of the teacher truth story collection
Largest: $10,000 to NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — to support the school's underwriting for a scholarship for a female student.
Largest: $66,000 to Greensboro College — grants to female students attending methodist schools in north carolina
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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 →