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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 “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 UCSF — understanding how blood-borne factors improve the function of the aging brain; 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 Precious Blood Ministry — for the workforce development program to provide employment preparation and placement serving englewood and back of the yards
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…
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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 →