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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 “movement”
Where the money went
Largest: $8,500 to FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICOAC — to promote dialogues among different movements including the cultural, scientific and environmental movements about the challenges to organize and the ways forward.
Largest: $150,000 to POLICYLINK — supporting healing in movement spaces by addressing gendered violence: to support efforts to connect and convene with social justice movement leaders in california to address gende…
Solidaire NetworkOakland, CACharity · may take applications
117 matching grants · $5.8M · through 2024Largest: $120,000 to NEO Philanthropy Inc — movement support of movement law lab
Largest: $4.5M to BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — 82080 supporting the black-led movement fund and disability inclusion fund in catalyzing investments in the racial justice and disability justice movements
Largest: $25,000 to INLAND WOODS & TRAILS — 2024 movement grant
Largest: $1.4M to MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — securing the next steps for our movement
Largest: $300,000 to INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANS AND IN — to support feminist and lgbtiq movements in countering anti-rights movements and strengthening the equal promotion and protection of bodily autonomy for women and lgbti people ever…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
79 matching grants · $25.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.5M to NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — strengthen native self-determination through tribal entrepreneurship in both rural and urban communities, and catalyze culturally designed coalition efforts focused on policy, rese…
Largest: $200,000 to EARTHLIFE AFRICA — support for strengthening the environmental justice movement in africa
Largest: $501,500 to INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE INC — encouraging a just transition away from fossil fuels, ocean stewardship and research, advancing diversity and equity in the environmental movement, supporting local communities
Largest: $916,666 to COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — movement for black lives
Largest: $300,000 to NEO PHILANTHROPY INC — to support the four freedoms fund (fff) as they strengthen the infrastructure of a vibrant immigrant justice movement that is diverse, connected, and integrated with the racial jus…
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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 →