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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 “trails”
Where the money went
National Wilderness Stewardship AllianceFort Collins, COCharity · may take applications
153 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2025Largest: $30,000 to WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — wilderness and trail stewardship ac
Largest: $275,180 to RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — circuit trails marketing and communications
Rails To Trails ConservancyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
96 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to CROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE ADVENTURE TRAIL — trail development
Vt Association of Snow TravelersBarre, VTCharity · may take applications
116 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2023Largest: $80,000 to VERMONT SNOW TRAILS CONSERVANCY — trail network
American TrailsRedding, CACharity · may take applications
61 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $101,993 to WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION — trail maintenance
Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesDes Moines, IACharity · may take applications
57 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to DAVIS COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL — grant distribution - trails
Largest: $150,000 to KEYSTONE TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC — for a new position to evaluate trail conditions, prioritize improvements, bolster volunteerism for trail stewardship, and assure better trail maintenance in the pa wilds
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — to provide general operations, including continued work on the west fork teanaway trail plan and support to increase wta's capacity to provide project management and technical expe…
Largest: $100,000 to CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS — the proposed trail includes a new 1,000 foot of twelve-foot-wide trail from 7th street se to 9th street se. it connects an existing trail at 7th street se to a fully funded trail f…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationConcord, NHCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $60,550 to Rails to Trails Conservancy — for general and operating support and to advance trail
Largest: $10.0M to Arkansas Department of Parks Heritage and Tourism — to support the completion of the delta heritage trail as more fully described in the delta heritage trail master plan dated april 2019 and in the updated extension budget dated oct…
Largest: $375,200 to ALASKA TRAILS — alaska long trail
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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 →