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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 “launch”
Where the money went
Largest: $1.3M to New Venture Fund — to support the launching equitable and accelerated pathways in providing technical assistance to up to 13 state teams to design and launch equitable new pathways solutions.
Largest: $675,000 to PROJECT HOPE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HLT FDN — 80505 building the infrastructure for the publication launch of a new multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, health affairs scholar
Largest: $300,000 to SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — to support the development, launch, and implementation of sphinx lead (leaders in excellence, arts & diversity), a professional development/fellowship program for classical music's…
Largest: $211,500 to UJAMAA COLLECTIVE — to research cooperative economic models and launch a platform to advance shared equity, ownership and governance
Largest: $250,000 to Teach Plus Incorporated — project support to launch houston policy fellowship program
Cities for Financial Empowerment FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to ORANGE COUNTY GOVERNMENT FL — launching a local financial empowerment center initiative
Largest: $300,000 to PROINSPIRE — to launch the fellowship for liberated futures for black women leading climate and racial justice efforts across the social sector.
Goodwill Industries InternationalRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $22.7M · through 2025Largest: $351,324 to GOODWILL IND OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN STATELINE AR — dol goodwill life launch pathway home 4, indeed 2022, life launch ignite 2.0, mod pizza 2023, young adult life launch 2.0
Largest: $2.5M to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — toward the costs of launching a research consortium to drive acceptance and uptake of covid-19 vaccination efforts and provide insights to counter health mis- and dis- information
United Way of Lancaster CountyLancaster, PACharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $67,859 to LUTHERCARE — scholarships & level up & launch
Largest: $310,000 to INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION (DBA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOC — for the international documentary association nonfiction access initiative to support disabled documentary filmmakers through data collection, a field survey and the design and lau…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
31 matching grants · $22.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — for the center for strategic partnerships, a project of southern california grantmakers, to launch a pooled philanthropic fund supporting innovative pilot projects focused on youth…
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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 →