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Funding search · EIN 456314648 · La Jolla, CA

Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

15
grants reported
$8.7M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$200,000
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.

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1 grant matching “cartilage” · $900,000

  • $900,000

    Scripps Health Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2022

    Funding Research for Bone & Cartilage Regeneration

Grant history

All 15 reported grants, largest first.

  • $3.8M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2024

    Grantmaking

  • $1.5M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2023

    Ucla foundation, scripps health, and sanford burnham prebys

  • $900,000

    Scripps Health Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2022

    Funding Research for Bone & Cartilage Regeneration

  • $745,000

    Ucsd Foundation · La Jolla, CA · 2022

    Covid research

  • $425,000

    Uc San Diego Foundation · La Jolla, CA · 2023

    Gut microbiome

  • $330,000

    La Jolla Institute for Immunology · La Jolla, CA · 2023

    Erica saphire lab

  • $300,000

    Scripps Health Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2022

    Funding research in shoulder biomechanics

  • $200,000

    La Jolla Institute for Immunology · La Jolla, CA · 2022

    Funding for dr. Erica's research

  • $125,000

    UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Funding research and education relating to esrd dialysis core

  • $100,000

    Clearity Foundation · San Deigo, CA · 2022

    Ovarian cancer research

  • $100,000

    Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Disc · La Jolla, CA · 2022

    Support graduate student and post-doctoral salaries in Jerold Chun's lab for work on Alzheimers

  • $100,000

    UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Cnsi, dr. Miller, funding research and education relating to precision anitbiotics

  • $85,000

    Institute for Biomedical Sciences · San Diego, CA · 2022

    Dr. Peter chen's research in joint tissue issues.

  • $25,000

    Helen Woodward Animal Center · Rancho Santa Fe, CA · 2023

    Honoring betty

  • $5,000

    Palo Verde High School · Blythe, CA · 2022

    Scholarships

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.