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12 funders with a record of paying for “slavery”
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The Freedom FundBrooklyn, NYCharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $6.6M · through 2024Largest: $448,489 to NORC — end modern slavery
Largest: $1.7M to NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — 81434 supporting the new jersey reparations council in researching the enduring impact of slavery in the state toward a blueprint to repair slavery's harms
Largest: $225,000 to INDIANA UNIVERSITY — to support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "global slaveries, fugitivity, and the afterlives of unfreedom: interconnections in comparative dialogue"
End Modern Slavery Initiative FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2023Largest: $1.7M to International Justice Mission — support activities to end modern slavery.
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $77,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING — to provide general support.
Largest: $100,000 to COLOR FARM MEDIA LLC — for production of dear evanston, a documentary film about reparations for slavery and the vestiges of slavery in the united states
Largest: $500,000 to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN — to support the center for the study of global slavery at the national museum of african american history and culture
Largest: $100,000 to Abolish Slavery Network March On Foundation — abolish slavery network
Largest: $125,000 to COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING — unrestricted operating support
Humanity UnitedSan Francisco, CA
5 matching grants · $465,000 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to Global Fund to End Modern Slavery — general operating support
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
4 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $810,000 to ARISE FOUNDATION AMERICA INC — to expand the pilot of the mel app to help sisters collect data and document their work on service provision, areas of need and ways to mitigate human trafficking and pilot a siste…
Largest: $147,862 to University of Virginia — the afterlife of slavery on campus: black student experiences with university histories of slavery and their views on higher education reparations
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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 →