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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 “financing”
Where the money went
Opportunity Finance NetworkWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
113 matching grants · $23.9M · through 2025Largest: $300,000 to SABRE FINANCE — finance justice fund subgrant
Largest: $250,000 to FINANCE CENTER FOR SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION LIMITED — to engage scholars, csos, policy makers and international agencies for knowledge generation and sharing on esg and impact investment for china's development finance, global governa…
Largest: $225,000 to Instituto de Energia e Meio Ambiente — to support research and analysis of the sustainability of brazilian public finance of energy and electrical sector development and capacity building among civil society organizatio…
Largest: $21,000 to FAU Foundation Inc — to finance operations of donee organization, fundraising, events and scholarship support
Largest: $900,000 to OPPORTUNITY FIN NETWK — 79212 supporting opportunity finance network's finance justice fund for community development financial institutions working in marginalized communities
Largest: $450,000 to FORUM DE PARIS SUR LA PAIX — in support of engaging entities from the global south and low-income countries in the paris summit for a new global financing pact, a meeting to discuss reform of the global financ…
Largest: $11.8M to STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION — for the climate finance fund
United States Endowment for ForestryGreenville, SCCharity · may take applications
44 matching grants · $4.1M · through 2024Largest: $342,143 to Blue Forest Finance — innovative finance; ecosystem markets
Largest: $12.9M to ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK — innovative finance investments
Largest: $125,000 to Scholars of Finance — wells fargo & sof: expanding financial health & leadership research
Episcopal Health FoundationHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
37 matching grants · $15.0M · through 2024Largest: $2.0M to Rice University — support change in healthcare financing
Largest: $500,000 to VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY — to finance the costs to conduct the project entitled "mobile meal program".
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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 →