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12 funders with a record of paying for “mediation”
Where the money went
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
26 matching grants · $5.1M · through 2025Largest: $287,500 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — mbc: the role of gut microbial metabolism in tau-mediated neurodegeneration
Largest: $60,000 to COMMUNITY BOARD PROGRAM — year 1, phase1 - cpra/opd mediation program
Massachusetts Bar FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $454,740 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to Quabbin Mediation — central ma court mediation project
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2024Largest: $126,513 to CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — to provide mediation services for conflicts in cook county. to provide mediation training services for eviction help illinois and haf foreclosure.
American Arbitration Association - Int'LNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to DAYTON MEDIATION CENTER — to implement and expand the mediation response unit (mru), an alternative to responding to nonviolent, low-level 911 calls for service. the mru will be managed out of the dayton me…
Largest: $12,500 to MEDIATION HOME RWANDA — senior fellow - mediation training
Largest: $75,000 to CONCORD MEDIATION CENTER — mediation center expansion
Largest: $100,000 to JUST MEDIATION PITTSBURGH — to sustain and expand just mediation pittsburgh's (jmp) efforts to utilize community mediators for landlord/tenant mediations, keeping individuals and families in their homes
Largest: $60,000 to Metro Milwaukee Mediation Services — housing mediation programs
Largest: $25,000 to METROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES — housing mediation program
Largest: $346,500 to BLOOMINGTON HEALTH FDN — 79981 providing flexible-funding support to further the mission and work of the community justice & mediation center in monroe county, in.
Tennessee Bar FoundationNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $159,000 · through 2024Largest: $80,000 to NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTERMEDIATION — provide access to mediation through conferencing technology that links rural and underserved populations with community mediation centers.
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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 →