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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 “biobank”
Where the money went
Largest: $95,241 to INSTITUT INTEGRATED BIOBANK OF LUXEMBOURG — biobanking for the primary oral insulin trial
Largest: $461,332 to MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER — support for psc biobank and psc research
Revive & RestoreSausalito, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $577,660 · through 2025Largest: $184,123 to VIAGEN PETS & EQUINE — services for black-footed ferret cloning work and informed biobanking project services
Largest: $125,000 to Dana Farber Cancer Institute — biobank for innovative cancer research and care
Largest: $250,000 to SPECTRUM BIOBANK INC — to support the expansion of their diversity-first biobank and bridge the diversity gap in genomics
Dravet Syndrome FoundationCherry Hill, NJCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $21,986 · through 2025Largest: $9,369 to Coriell Institute for Medical Research — creating a biobank of patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. this project aims to establish a biobank of five unique lines of commercially-available induced pluripotent st…
Bay Area Lyme Major Gift FundPortola Valley, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $955,000 to LYME DISEASE BIOBANK FOUNDATION — general operating support
Largest: $1.5M to UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION — to support the uk biobank repeat imaging project that will create a dataset of medical imaging from more than 60,000 healthy subjects at two points in time as a resource for unders…
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2022Largest: $50,000 to MAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE — for dr. dennis dickson's biobanking project. no indirects are to be taken from this grant
Largest: $14,000 to AUCKLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — punaha lo - the new zealand neurogenic genetic research registry and biobank
Largest: $2.0M to UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — to launch and expand a registry and biobank of individuals tested for lp(a), establish an lp(a) clinical trial coordinating center, and initiate opportunities to apply for addition…
Caroline SymmesCarmel, INCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $200,000 · through 2025Largest: $200,000 to The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc — project every child is an initiative serving as a comprehensive registry and biobank for children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer. it enables researchers to link clinica…
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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 →