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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 “resiliency”
Where the money went
Largest: $820,000 to MULTIPLIER — working towards a resilient and equitable food system, encouraging a just transition away from fossil fuels, ocean stewardship and research
Largest: $500,000 to RESILIENCE FORCE — recoverable core support grant for its resilience works initiative to train and employ resilience workers
Largest: $200,000 to FFA & ITS STATE ASSOCIATIONS & LOCAL CHAPTER SC FFA ASSOCIATION — climate resiliency
Largest: $50,000 to RESILIENT CODERS — resilient coders boston bootcamp
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
133 matching grants · $50.4M · through 2023Largest: $24.6M to TOWN OF DAUPHIN ISLAND — restore al bay marsh & oyster reefs for resilience
California Restaurant FoundationSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
171 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to THE DOUGHROOM — resilience fund grant
Largest: $2.0M to THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — through its federal-local bridge for learning and impact, brookings metro will forge new insights that (1) help local leaders shape the next generation of place-based economic deve…
Largest: $250,000 to Multiplier — tosupport the climate resilience fund (crf, a project of multiplier) to launch a national resilience accelerator program.
Largest: $1.0M to HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — promoting climate and community resilience via leadership, health and safety: to support efforts to create the first carbon-negative rural/tribal region in the us by 2030 through a…
Largest: $1.0M to (192) METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING COUNCIL — climate: to support mobility, clean energy, and climate resiliency planning
Largest: $3.3M to CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — in support of a western u.s. fire ecology and forest resilience science collaborative to advance new knowledge and improved understanding of future wildfire resilience and stewards…
Asian Pacific FundSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
85 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION — resiliency and recovery grant (lavender phoenix)
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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 →