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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 “biodesign”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to UCLA BIODESIGN — ucla biodesign fellowship
Largest: $1.0M to STANFORD BIODESIGN FOGARTY INSTITUTE — charitable entity support
Largest: $185,872 to BIODESIGN CHALLENGE INC — biodesign challenge
Largest: $3,000 to ASU BIODESIGN INSTITUTE — general operating funds
Largest: $342,665 to University of Arkansas — to pilot the northwest arkansas biodesign sprints (nabs) program.
Largest: $86,254 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — the art history gift fund, the buck/cardinal club fund, the biodesign main gift fund, and the stanford fund.
Clif Family FoundationSaint Helena, CA
2 matching grants · $45,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Biodesign Challenge Inc — revitalize the environment
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $1.3M · through 2022Largest: $1.3M to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — program - for the murphy cadogan awards. advised - for the director's opportunity gift fund of the hoover institution and for the annual overseer contribution to hoover institution…
Largest: $20.0M to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — center for biodesign
Partners in Health a Nonprofit CorporationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $407,597 · through 2024Largest: $407,597 to Stanford University (Stanford Biodesign) — develop holistic, critical, and systems-level approach to digital health and build capacity for digital health in sub-saharan africa through delivery of leadership training program…
Council for Innovation PromotionWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $15,000 · through 2023Largest: $15,000 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY BIODESIGN — general support to further the organization's purpose.
Largest: $10,000 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — for stanford biodesign program
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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 →