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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 “four”
Where the money went
Largest: $500,000 to FOUR BANDS COMM FUND — 81116 general operating support for the four bands community fund
Largest: $15,000 to CIERA DEE — to support qualified students in need of financial aid for the purpose of attending a two or four year college or university after graduation from high school.
Largest: $15,000 to JACK STILLINGTON- DR CLAIRE TREMAIN — the purpose of the dr. claire tremaine & george mentas scholarship is to provide financial assistance to high school students who demonstrate merit, potential and financial need an…
Largest: $5,000 to Kansas Wesleyan University — support for four year university/college scholarships for students enrolled in health related degree tracks
Largest: $90,000 to BRITT MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL — four year operating support initiative grant for arts organization
Largest: $375,000 to DC JUSTICE LAB — to support general operations over four years
Largest: $847,500 to HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH — general operating support for community health centers serving four wnc counties.
Largest: $15,000 to CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA — to provide funding to engage a media consultant to produce four promotional videos and manage a four-month digital marketing campaign to enlist foster parents in cabell, lincoln, m…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $20.1M · through 2023Largest: $32,500 to Four Point Play — for programming to build community cohesion through the chicago fund for safe and peaceful communities., in support of four point play to provide youth leadership development progr…
Largest: $150,000 to RICHMOND PROMISE — to provide richmond promise scholarship recipients with advising to increase transfer from community college to four-year institutions, as part of the copro2.0 initiative.
Largest: $125,000 to UNIONDOCS INC — for the uniondocs fellowship for documentary art, which will provide practice-based support to four documentary film artists and partnership with leading cultural writers
Largest: $570,526 to University of Nebraska Foundation — to provide four years of scholarship support for the 2023 cohort (#2) of peter kiewit foundation engineering academy.
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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 →