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Who funds infectious disease work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for infectious disease work by Massachusetts recipients: 82 grants totaling $27.4M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ($4.0M), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($12.0M) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation ($1.1M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Massachusetts recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterSeatle, WACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2022Largest: $1.7M to BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL INC — vaccine and infectious disease research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $12.0M · through 2021Largest: $4.1M to BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL INC — vaccine and infectious disease
Largest: $150,000 to MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — role of regulatory fibroblasts in eliciting immune tolerance to colitis
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2025Largest: $172,500 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — development of a multicellular brain model to study brain-vascular-peripheral immune cells crosstalk inalzheimers disease
Charles H Hood FoundationManchesterbythesea, MA
5 matching grants · $465,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE — child health research award - socioeconomic inequities in rsv immunization and population-based outcomes
Largest: $137,500 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — dissecting epigenetic and transcriptomic regulators mediating the pathogenesis and immune evasion of liposarcoma
Largest: $324,064 to HARVARD COLLEGE — harnessing the maternal immune system to prevent the development of autism-like phenotypes in offspring
Largest: $45,000 to Dana Farber Cancer Institute — dr. david barbie research sensitizing small cell lung cancer to immune checkpoint blockade by restoring neoantigen displayeducation
N of OneDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $75,045 · through 2024Largest: $30,045 to Harvard Medical School — research - immune system/microbiome
Largest: $199,845 to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC — vaccine development
Largest: $105,000 to JOSE RICARDO MCFALINE-FIGUEROA - DA — 78301 the role of cdk4/6 signaling in glioblastoma immune evasion and therapeutic resistance -- jose ricardo mcfaline-figueroa, md, phd
Largest: $186,667 to BOSTON COLLEGE — gifts to the discretionary fund of the biology department impact facultys research within the areas of molecular cell biology and genetics, cancer and cell cycle, neurobiology, dev…
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