Not a list of open calls — those are free everywhere. This is the other direction: every grant a private foundation reported actually paying, pulled from its IRS filing. Who received it, how much, what for.
They are built around foundations that write million-dollar checks, because their customers pay $299 a month. If you run on $800K a year, those foundations were never going to fund you.
Funder Trail indexes the other end: the family trust that gives $900, thirty-four times a year, to churches in Missouri. It shows up in no directory, because it is not worth indexing for anyone selling an enterprise seat. It is worth everything to a small organization.
| Foundation | State | Grants/yr | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baird Foundation Inc | WI | 3862 | $500 |
| Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc | PA | 3159 | $100 |
| State Employees Credit Union Foundation | NC | 1806 | $2,500 |
| Eastern Bank Foundation | MA | 1787 | $2,500 |
| Analog Devices Foundation | MA | 1177 | $371 |
| Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc | NY | 1045 | $1,000 |
| Land O'Lakes Foundation | MN | 1036 | $1,230 |
| Bnsf Railway Foundation | TX | 993 | $2,500 |
The median, never the average. One $400M check from Lilly Endowment drags its average grant to $1.7M. The median is $100K and the lower quartile is $15K. The average would have told you not to bother applying. It would have been wrong.
Whether they fund religious organizations — proven, not stated. Many foundations quietly fund churches and ministries without saying so, and others say they do and never have. We do not read policies. We read what they paid.
Tell us what you do, where you are and how big you are. We search all 724,119 grants and hand back the foundations that already funded organizations like yours — at a size you can actually win. One-time, no subscription.
Get your funder match — $29Every private foundation in the United States files a Form 990-PF, and on it lists each grant it paid: recipient, address, purpose, amount. The IRS publishes all of it, free, as raw XML that almost nobody reads. We read it, clean it and keep the history — month after month, because foundations change and old filings vanish from the web.