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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 “instrument”
Where the money went
Community Foundation of Northern IlRockford, ILCharity · may take applications
461 matching grants · $16.0M · through 2024Largest: $998,872 to Community Grants Annual Grant Pass-Thru — for purposes as specified in a grant application, fund agreement or gift instrument.
Largest: $2.7M to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — in support of research into developing a novel quantum acoustic instrument to elucidate nonequilibrium dynamical processes in individual biological macromolecules with single-quant…
Local Oklahoma Music AssociationEdmond, OKCharity · may take applications
37 matching grants · $461,425 · through 2025Largest: $8,880 to Del City Instrumental Music — the money was used to purchase musical instruments, instrument repair, print music, and equipment.
California Association for Research inKamuela, HICharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2023Largest: $602,000 to UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — assistance for new instrument design studies, instrument upgrade proposals, and other proposals to improve the observatory's scientific productivity.
Largest: $50,000 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — for the network of young researchers in instrumentation for astronomy workshop
Symphonic Band of the Palm BeachesWest Palm Beach, FLCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $67,310 · through 2023Largest: $9,786 to FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY — scholarships to talented music students who are in need of assistance, including donations of musical instruments
Largest: $55,000 to WHYHUNGER INC — zankel music fund for the employment of music as an instrument for social change
Largest: $25,000 to BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE — per governing instrument - contrib to preselected ch
Largest: $115,000 to CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES INSTRUMENTATION PRO — brinson prize fellowship in instrumentation
The Marrs McLean Trust #487601San Antonio, TXCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $210,515 to BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — to provide support to the school per trust instrument
Largest: $29,066 to BOBBY DUKE MIDDLE SCHOOL — falcon band new instruments
Largest: $15,000 to CARNEGIE HALL — the advancement of instrumental music
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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 →