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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 “lectureships”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to KENYN COLLEGE — jean dreyfus lectureship award
Largest: $27,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE — lectureship and supply fund
The University of North Carolina atChapel Hill, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $21.5M · through 2024Largest: $6.9M to UNC GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH — grants are awarded to support scholarships, professorships, faculty and student awards, lectureships, research initiatives, and operating needs of the unc gillings school of global…
American Academy of PediatricsItasca, ILCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $268,550 · through 2024Largest: $117,500 to COLORADO CHAPTER - AAP — echo suicide prevention; 2023 breastfeeding lectureship; safe babies; pmhca program; project firstline; food insecurity; ephp; tpec ch innovation; infant toddler court program; opi…
Largest: $15,000 to MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY (MRS) — fred kavli distinguished lectureship 2023-2025
Millersville University FoundationMillersville, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $564,113 to MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY — to support lectureships, departmental expenses
Largest: $7,000 to Advocate Charitable Foundation — a special designated grant to the angelo p. creticos, md lectureship fund for support of the dr. steven rosen lecture on may 2, 2024 at advocate illinois masonic medical center
Largest: $5,000 to HENRY FORD HOSPITAL — lectureship grant
Largest: $54,904 to CLARENCE S LIVINGOOD LECTURESHIP — lecture sponorship
Largest: $4,603 to UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — visiting lectureship in anthropology
Aats FoundationFairfax, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $233,578 · through 2022Largest: $213,578 to MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS (MUSCP) — lectureship award
Largest: $10,000 to UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY-COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — ward griffen, m.d. lectureship
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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 →