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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 “term”
Where the money went
Largest: $2.7M to LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE — epidemiology study of long-term health outcomes associated with chronic viral infections
Largest: $375,000 to CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY — 80932 leveraging people's stories to expand healthcare in states in the short term and transform the national healthcare system in the long term, 2023-2025
Largest: $6,500 to J Partida — short-term emergency assistance grant
Largest: $271,136 to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — this project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of financial assistance on both short-term and long-term pretrial outcomes, including court attendance, incar…
Largest: $250,000 to GRASSROOTS POWER PROJECT — training california movement strategists for health and racial equity: to build a multi-generational bench of long-term strategists equipped to move bold structural change, and to …
Largest: $850,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College — to support a suite of studies on long-term drivers of student achievement both within schools and beyond the classroom, including research on social capital, civic outcomes, driver…
Center for Disaster PhilanthropyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $8.8M · through 2024Largest: $377,500 to MAUI UNITED WAY — the ho'ola mauikama long term recovery group, through the maui united way, will receive $377,500 from the hawaii wildfires recovery fund to support full-time staffing to carry out …
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $22.2M · through 2023Largest: $8.6M to Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights — general operating support. support for marjorie kovler center general fund. support for readi chicago, readi chicago and north lawndale collaborative. support for implementation of…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $5.2M · through 2023Largest: $1.1M to CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE — long-term grass & crop land communities land mgmt
Largest: $165,000 to OPPORTUNITY AGENDA — one-time core support to develop and coordinate long term narrative and short term messaging to promote an inclusive and representational democracy
The Scan FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
31 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $109,603 to CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR LONG TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS — the california collaborative for long-term services and supports in partnership with the california department of aging and the ucla center for health policy research to collect an…
Largest: $1.4M to Fresh Energy — to move minnesota and the midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy work, partnerships, and innovation
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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 →