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.
9 funders with a record of paying for “biomedicine”
Where the money went
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9 funders, 14 recipients, grants matching “biomedicine” only. Ribbon width is proportional to the total given; each funder has its own colour (smaller funders in gray). Hover a name to isolate its flows, click a funder to open it. Drag to move around; zoom with the buttons, a double-click, or the wheel after clicking the map.
Largest: $19,918 to AMERICAN ASSN FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCI — 78248 developing the sea change biomedicine landscaping database for studying the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of u.s. medical schools
Largest: $100,000 to AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICINE — carrying out research into next generation crispr/cas-based ex vivo gene editing of autologous hematopoietic stem cells as a curative treatment of job syndrome
Largest: $2.0M to COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — to improve the sustainability and capacity of biorxiv and medrxiv for making preprints the primary vehicle of dissemination in biomedicine and becoming essential platforms for comm…
Largest: $20,000 to WOMEN IN MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE — to support bumblekite's first state of applied ai in biomedicine and healthcare research study and report.
Largest: $25,000 to MICHELLE KATHLEEN ROBERTS — roberts, michelle (kentucky, u. of) "webs of care: understanding acquired disability in rural appalachia through culture, politics, and biomedicine"
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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 →
