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The Michael J Fox Foundation

Name: The Michael J Fox Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

391
grants reported: $439.8M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $321,435
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

parkinson research

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Parkinson's disease research, the sole stated purpose of every grant
Biotech and pharma companies developing PD therapeutics and diagnostics
Academic neuroscience labs at major research universities
Clinical trial infrastructure, imaging cores, biomarker and biospecimen platforms
Patient registries, cohort recruitment, and digital health measurement tools

Typical grant

Median grant is $321,435, with the middle half between $120,364 and $977,392. The checks above $5 million go to infrastructure and platform partners such as clinical trial payment systems, imaging centers, biospecimen and sequencing vendors, and a small set of company-sponsored therapeutic programs; single-lab academic awards cluster in the low hundreds of thousands. With 391 grants to 241 recipients across three years, most recipients get funded more than once, and the large institutional partners recur annually.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“PARKINSON'S RESEARCH”
“Parkinson's disease”
“biomarker”
“clinical trial”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie the work explicitly to Parkinson's disease mechanisms, biomarkers, or therapeutics; nothing here is funded on adjacency alone.
Ask in the $150K to $900K range for a single-lab project; reserve larger asks for multi-site platform work.
Emphasize tools that other investigators can use: assays, imaging methods, cohorts, animal models, data resources.
Note any existing link to their funded cohort and imaging partners, such as the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates heavily in California, Massachusetts, and New York, and a handful of top recipients absorb a large share of the total, including the Parkinson's Foundation, Greenphire, Yale, and Alkahest. This funder behaves like a strategic research investor rather than a responsive grantmaker, funding for-profit companies alongside universities, so relationships with their research programs staff and fit with their therapeutic pipeline priorities drive decisions.

1 grant matching “Parkinson's disease” · $45,000

$45,000
Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases University of Florida Hea · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Parkinson's research

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

The Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders3 grants · $36.2M
Greenphire3 grants · $35.0M
Alkahest2 grants · $21.5M
Parkinson'S Foundation3 grants · $21.2M
Indiana University3 grants · $19.9M
Yale University2 grants · $18.7M
Xingimaging Llc2 grants · $13.3M
Northwestern University3 grants · $9.8M
Psomagen2 grants · $9.3M
Sibel Health3 grants · $8.0M

Giving over time

$73.8M

2022

$125.8M

2023

$240.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 391 grants.

$21.0M
Parkinson'S Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Parkinson's research
$18.6M
Greenphire · King of Prussia, PA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$18.4M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Parkinson's research
$18.1M
Alkahest · San Carlos, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$17.3M
The Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders · New Haven, CT · 2023
Parkinson's research
$12.7M
Xingimaging Llc · Woodbridge, CT · 2024
Parkinson's research
$11.9M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Parkinson's research
$10.0M
The Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders · New Haven, CT · 2024
Parkinson's research
$9.1M
Greenphire · King of Prussia, PA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$8.9M
The Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders · New Haven, CT · 2022
Parkinson's research
$7.5M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Parkinson's research
$7.3M
Greenphire · King of Prussia, PA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$6.5M
Octave Bioscience · Menlo Park, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$6.4M
Psomagen · Rockville, MD · 2024
Parkinson's research
$6.2M
Nico Therapeutics · South San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$5.3M
Maplight Therapeutics · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$5.0M
Libra Therapeutics · San Diego, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$4.8M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$4.8M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Parkinson's research
$4.7M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$4.7M
Sibel Health · Niles, IL · 2022
Parkinson's research
$4.1M
Cnd Life Sciences · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Parkinson's research
$4.0M
GE Healthcare · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.8M
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.8M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Llc · Boston, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$3.6M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.4M
Nine Square Therapeutics · South San Francisco, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$3.4M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.4M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.4M
Alkahest · San Carlos, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$3.3M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.3M
Montara Therapeutics · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$3.2M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Parkinson's research
$3.1M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
Parkinson's research
$2.9M
Psomagen · Rockville, MD · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
Amprion · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
Skip Innovations · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
Illumina · San Diego, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
Allyx Therapeutics · New Haven, CT · 2022
Parkinson's research
$2.8M
Schrodinger · New York, NY · 2024
Parkinson's research
$2.6M
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.5M
Longevity Biotech · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$2.5M
Neuropore Therapies · San Diego, CA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$2.5M
Selonterra · San Mateo, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.1M
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2022
Parkinson's research
$2.1M
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.0M
Lucy Therapeutics · Cam, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.0M
Sibel Health · Niles, IL · 2023
Parkinson's research
$2.0M
Hillhurst Biopharmaceuticals · Montrose, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.9M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health · North Bethesda, MD · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.9M
Eicosis · Davis, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.9M
Arizona State University Foundation · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.9M
Arizona State University Foundation · Tempe, AZ · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.8M
Critical Path Institute · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.8M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.8M
Abbvie · North Chicago, IL · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.7M
Inflammanova Rx Llc · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.7M
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.7M
Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research · Seattle, WA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.6M
Evidation Health · San Mateo, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.6M
Neumora Therapeutics · Watertown, MA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.6M
C2n Diagnostics Llc · St Louis, MO · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.6M
Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.6M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Brigham & Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Sandbox Aq · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Merck and Company · Boston, MA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Washington University School of Medicine · St Louis, MO · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Longevity Biotech · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.5M
Longevity Biotech · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.4M
Lucy Therapeutics · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.3M
Nurron Pharmaceuticals · Woburn, MA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.3M
Sibel Health · Niles, IL · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.3M
Cleveland Clinic · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.3M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.3M
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
Ossianix · Bryn Mawr, PA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
National Institute On Aging at Nih · Bethesda, MD · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
National Institutes of Health (Nih) · Bethesda, MD · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
Invicro Llc · Needham, MA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.2M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Alector · South San Francisco, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Bexion Pharmaceuticals · Covington, KY · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Eos Therapies · San Diego, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Oregon Health and Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Abcam · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.1M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.0M
Invicro Llc · Needham, MA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.0M
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$1.0M
Nysnobio Gt Neurology Llc · Mill Valley, CA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$1.0M
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Parkinson's research
$979,459
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
Parkinson's research
$975,326
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Parkinson's research
$958,786
Octave Bioscience · Menlo Park, CA · 2024
Parkinson's research

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