Each one evidenced from its own IRS Form 990-PF filing, with the grant it paid, who received it, where they were and what it was for. Not a database subscription. One report, built for your organisation, delivered in 48 hours.
One brief: your cause, your state, your ask size.
Three different briefs. Separate programmes, separate states, or the same programme at three ask sizes. They do not expire.
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The IRS publishes every electronically filed Form 990-PF as machine readable XML. Part XV of that form is a line by line list of every grant a private foundation paid during the year: recipient, city, state, stated purpose, amount. All of it is public and none of it is packaged for a nonprofit that needs one good answer, once.
From the 2026 IRS filing year. Every figure in a report is copied from a filing. Nothing is estimated and no field is written by a language model.
A PDF report, a CSV of the same 25 rows for your spreadsheet or CRM, and an HTML copy if you would rather read it in a browser. The report also carries a methodology page showing exactly how the ranking works, a short section on approaching foundations of this size, and a disclosure page.
This is the real header of funder-match-25.csv, read out of the shipped sample files at build time.
| # | Column | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | Position 1 to 25 in the ranking |
| 2 | funder_name | Legal name from the return header |
| 3 | ein | Employer identification number |
| 4 | city | Principal office city |
| 5 | state | Principal office state |
| 6 | total_grants_paid | Total grants paid that year |
| 7 | itemized_grant_total | Sum of the grants actually itemised in Part XV |
| 8 | grant_count | How many grants the filing lists |
| 9 | median_grant | Median of those grants |
| 10 | typical_grant_low | Lower bound of the usual grant band |
| 11 | typical_grant_high | Upper bound of the usual grant band |
| 12 | min_grant | Smallest grant paid that year |
| 13 | max_grant | Largest grant paid that year |
| 14 | grants_in_your_ask_range | How many of their grants fell inside your ask |
| 15 | in_state_grants | How many went to organisations in your state |
| 16 | sample_grantees | Up to four real grantees like you, with city, amount and stated purpose |
| 17 | application_method | How they say to apply, quoted from the filing |
| 18 | application_contact | Name and address as printed on the filing |
| 19 | application_deadline | Deadline where the filing states one |
| 20 | access_signal | Whether they say they accept unsolicited requests, or fund preselected organisations only |
| 21 | filing_year | Tax year of the 990-PF this row is built from |
| 22 | source_url | Direct link to that filing |
| 23 | why_this_matched | One plain English line, assembled from the numbers above |
| 24 | website | Foundation website where the filing gives one |
| 25 | phone | Foundation phone where the filing gives one |
These are real reports, produced from the real dataset for example briefs rather than for clients. Nothing is redacted and no foundation in either one has been contacted. Read them, then decide.
Cause. literacy, youth, education
Geography. Rhode Island
Ask size. $10,000 to $25,000
Cause. community health, health, human services
Geography. Virginia
Ask size. $25,000 to $50,000
Three questions. Two sentences each is plenty.
Optional and useful: your EIN, your annual budget, and two or three foundations that have funded you before. Nothing else. No account to create, no call to book, no data to upload.
Turnaround is 48 hours from the time we have those answers, weekends included. If a report is going to be late you hear from us before the deadline, not after it.
Full refund if fewer than 15 of the 25 matches are plausible. Plausible means you would consider approaching them: the cause is close enough, the geography works, and the grant size is in the right neighbourhood. You decide, not us. Say so within 14 days of delivery, tell us roughly which ones failed and why, and we refund in full and keep the feedback. You keep the report either way.
This is research on public filings. It is not an endorsement, a referral or an introduction. We do not contact foundations on your behalf and we have no relationship with any of them. We do not write your proposal and we take no percentage of anything you raise.
It is not a guarantee of funding. Nobody can promise that a foundation will fund you. What we promise is that the list is real, current to the latest published filing, and worth your time.
990-PF filings lag one to two years. The form is filed months after a foundation's tax year closes and published months after that, so a foundation's most recent public grant list is usually a year or two old. Priorities change, programmes close, trustees turn over. Treat every row as a lead to verify, not a fact about the present.
Private foundations only. Community foundations, corporate giving programmes, donor advised funds and government grants file differently or not at all, and are outside this report. Roughly three quarters of small private foundations fund preselected organisations only. Every one of those is labelled and ranked below the foundations that are open, rather than quietly padding the 25.
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