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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 “hubs”
Where the money went
Largest: $450,000 to BARNES FOUNDATION — arts and culture hubs fy2022, fy2023, fy2024
Largest: $600,000 to INSTITUTO FEIRA PRETA — to create the preta hub communicates resource hub
United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
80 matching grants · $6.5M · through 2024Largest: $630,587 to CHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE — choose healthy life-uwnyc successfully supported the incubation of choose healthy life, a national non-profit addressing health disparities through faith-based partnerships with th…
Honor FlightArlington, VACharity · may take applications
84 matching grants · $973,741 · through 2024Largest: $48,834 to HONOR FLIGHT PHILADELPHIA CORP — hub assistance grant
Largest: $92,600 to DIFFUSION ASSOC — 80895 designing learning collaboratives for echo sites and hubs to focus on sharing best practices for echo hub implementation sustainability
Largest: $500,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — for a teaching and research hub that will support high-quality content and online programing
Largest: $2.8M to NEW VENTURE FUND — to support the learning & action hub for democracy (d-hub), a fiscally-sponsored project of the grantee, to advance democratic renewal through providing educational and peer-to-pee…
Largest: $300,000 to The Oakland REACH — to amplify their mission of parent power and community-led educational change in oakland and the state of california, and expand their impact in new communities across the country …
Largest: $158,000 to IDEMS International Community Interest Company — kenya ae hub 3: supporting frn priorities through agroecological research, capacity strengthening, and farmer empowerment
Largest: $3.5M to THE NEW VENTURE FUND — sustainable cities: local infrastructure hub
Largest: $1.5M to NEWS REVENUE HUB INC — accelerate the news revenue hubs capacity by scaling its technical staff to enable product, analytics, and data benchmarking capabilities, and to provide free access to those produ…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
22 matching grants · $14.6M · through 2024Largest: $900,000 to SWAHILIPOT HUB FOUNDATION — to support a system of youth hubs, case management, and career pathways services in mombasa, kenya
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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 →