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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 “fertility”
Where the money went
Largest: $10.0M to AFRICAN FERTILIZER AND AGRIBUSINESSES PARTNERSHIP INC — agricultural development
Madeleine H Gordon Dba Gift of LifeCincinnati, OHCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $171,067 · through 2025Largest: $44,760 to UC PHYSICIANS - TO ASSIST DESERVING COUPLES WITH INFERTILITY — to assist deserving couples with expenses for fertility treatments
Largest: $6,000 to CCRM Fertility of Houston — infertility research
Largest: $86,515 to BOSTON COLLEGE — 81874 documenting how abortion restrictions lower fertility rates and increase non-fertility outcomes like severe maternal morbidity
The Humane Society of the United StatesWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $155,600 · through 2024Largest: $77,800 to Trustees of Tufts University dba Tufts University — fertility control studies for wild horses and burro populations, and funding to implement wildlife fertility control work
Illinois Nutrient ResearchSpringfield, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $998,432 · through 2023Largest: $373,212 to ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION — research projects
Largest: $360,000 to JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION — to support the exempt purpose of the recipient organization
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2022Largest: $150,000 to Independent Film Alliance Chicago — in support of general operations to fertile ground factory to complete the "mister abbott" documentary and deepen organizational capacity to support bipoc storytellers and filmmake…
The American Society for ReproductiveWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $155,000 · through 2024Largest: $40,000 to ALLIANCE FOR FERTILITY PRESERVATION — advancement of the science & practice of reproductive medicine
Largest: $60,000 to Jewish Fertility Foundation LLC — cincinnati initiative
Jewish Federation of Greater PittsburghPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $153,070 · through 2024Largest: $70,250 to JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC — to support social health and welfare
Largest: $50,000 to The Hope for Fertility Foundation — funding of charitable operations
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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 →