Funding search
Find who already funds work like yours.
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 “blood”
Where the money went
American Heart AssociationDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
113 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $71,000 to Woven Health Clinic — blood pressure program
Largest: $1.0M to Cleveland Cord Blood Center — cord blood collection program, piedmont atlanta hospital
The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CACharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $5.7M · through 2023Largest: $1.3M to SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK — grants for scientific research
Hope & Heroes Children'S Cancer FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $13.5M · through 2024Largest: $4.8M to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — to support clinical programs and research initiatives focusing on providing excellent, innovative care to children with cancer and blood disorders, and to seek improved understandi…
Largest: $5,000 to BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII — program support
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2025Largest: $250,000 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — cellular and molecular studies of apoe regulation of blood-brain barrier, synaptic and neuronal functions and protection strategies in mouse models with and without alzheimer's pah…
Largest: $375,000 to UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — understanding how blood-borne factors improve the function of the aging brain; spi dubal: sex-specific differences in cognitive and brain aging
Largest: $50,000 to VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE — support blood research. blood health innovators who enhance lives through integration of science, medicine and service.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterSeatle, WACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $651,016 to NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC — research support/subawards
Largest: $15,000 to Leukemia Research Fdn — to support patient financial assistance program for medical expenses, food and expenses to patients fighting blood cancers
Largest: $60,000 to HCSC Blood Center DBA Miller-Keystone Blood Center — to support the blood donor diversity program, an outreach and awareness effort to increase the number of hispanic blood donors.
Largest: $36,665 to CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — the alternative dosing and prevention of transfusions (adapt) study: a prospective trial of hydroxyurea to reduce blood transfusion need in children with sickle cell anemia in ugan…
This is one keyword. PaperOrbit reads your actual paper and searches on everything in it — population, methods, outcomes — then explains why each funder fits.
Start with one paperSearch by location
Local foundations often favor nearby communities. Enter a ZIP code to see foundations based near you, and where grant money has actually landed in your area.
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 →