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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 “modern”
Where the money went
SourceamericaVienna, VACharity · may take applications
239 matching grants · $9.7M · through 2024Largest: $406,432 to MOZAIC — growth, technology, & modernization grant, marketing social media interns, training, compliance, & certification grant, strategic investment
The Freedom FundBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $6.6M · through 2024Largest: $448,489 to NORC — end modern slavery
Largest: $1.6M to NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — keeping it modern
Largest: $375,000 to PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC — core support for the modern government strategy for modernizing government work that delivers equitable services and effective outcomes to the public
Largest: $1.0M to Education Analytics Inc — to support a collaborative of states seeking to partner together to modernize their state k-12 data systems in order to drive significant changes in education policy and practice.
The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $937,875 · through 2025Largest: $80,625 to INDIANA AIDS FUND INC — restricted to support the hiv modernization movement indiana in modernizing criminal laws and penalties for people living with hiv.
Largest: $500,000 to CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — for a community-informed strategy for modernizing and elevating the teaching profession
Cicp FoundationIndianapolis, INCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to INDIANAPOLIS PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC DBA EMPLOYINDY — to advance ascend indiana's modern and youth apprenticeship programs
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $4.9M · through 2022Largest: $2.1M to The UCLA Foundation — support for "friends of action research" (chancellors organization #6200, dept. #3805, fund #49211). support for university of california cancer consortium ucla health - to support…
Largest: $1.4M to MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — to support the establishment of the just above midtown archives at the museum of modern art
Largest: $75,000 to SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — support of the arts at the san francisco museum of modern art.
Largest: $60,000 to TANYA POLLARD — early modern studies
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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 →