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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 “headwaters”
Where the money went
Northwest Minnesota FoundationBemidji, MNCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $187,864 · through 2024Largest: $35,000 to HEADWATERS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COM — headwaters regional development commissi
Largest: $25,000 to HEADWATERS RCPEF — flexible funding
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $284,622 to HEADWATERS LLC — conservation projects
Largest: $868,726 to Northwest Arkansas Land Trust — donation of land in springtown, ar for expansion of flint creek headwaters preserve.
Largest: $120,000 to HEADWATERS SCIENCE CENTER — ada rest/food prep lab
Largest: $525,000 to RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TR A COL — land purchase
Largest: $500,000 to Headwaters Foundation for Justice — for general operating support
Largest: $15,000 to MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (MDI) — community participation in a carbon removal and validation program to restore forest habitat on coffee farms in the headwaters of the yoro biological corridor
Largest: $1.0M to HEADWATERS FDN FOR JUSTICE — 80841 general operating support for the headwaters foundation for justice, 2023-2024
Adirondack FoundationLake Placid, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $56,500 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to ADIRONDACK ROOTS — for the "urgent needs fund application". this grant is funded in partnership with the hudson headwaters health network upstream fund
Largest: $500,000 to HEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC — for general operating support
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to HEADWATER FOODS INC — hunger prevention nutrition assistance program (hpnap), emergency food and shelter program (efsp), and nourish ny are uwnycs largest programs to provide nutritious food to pantries…
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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 →