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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “atrophy”
Where the money went
Largest: $100,000 to LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION — to provide funding for research and support for children with spinal muscular atrophy
Largest: $25,000 to FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA — to find a cure for spinal muscular atrophy, the number one genetic cause.
Luke 181 FoundationSouthlake, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $565,181 to FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA — fund cure for sma
Largest: $2,500 to MUTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY MSA COALITIO — support, education and research for multiple system atrophy disease.
Largest: $444,000 to Muscular Dystrophy Association — spinal muscular atrophy research
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $574,500 · through 2024Largest: $230,000 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — selective vulnerability in posterior cortical atrophy
Association of Public HealthBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $328,145 · through 2022Largest: $204,555 to SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL — to support the implementation of screening for spinal muscular atrophy through the newborn screening technical assistance and evaluation program. project related to improving weeke…
Largest: $5,000 to CURE SMA — research into treatment and cures for spinal muscular distrophyresearch into treatment and cures of spinal muscluar atrophy
Largest: $20.5M to UCSF FOUNDATION — discovering drugs for parkinsons disease and multiple systems atrophy
Largest: $20,000 to PHOENIX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — support for neuromuscular program fund for spinal muscular atrophy and family assistance
World Brain Forum FoundationAspen, COCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $500,000 · through 2022Largest: $500,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — donation to greenwald foundation geographic atrophy research fund: to provide support for research in geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration in the department of op…
Largest: $5,000 to LUKE 181 FOUNDATION — spinal muscular atrophy
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →