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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 “burnham”
Where the money went
Largest: $3.0M to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MED DISC INST — catalyst the teaching incubator
The San Diego FoundationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2024Largest: $146,250 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — to support innovative research approach using food to prevent and treat melanoma
Largest: $80,000 to STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL — general & unrestricted
Rally FoundationAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $250,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — pediatric cancer study
CureboundSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $411,561 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS — see detail in part ivcancer research across five research pillars; including prevention and diagnostic tools, novel approaches and new therapeutic platforms, immunotherapies and pe…
Largest: $47,313 to FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BURNHAM BLOCK — burnham block project
Largest: $99,561 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS INST DR PURI — scientific research grant
Chadtough Defeat Dipg FoundationSaline, MICharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $196,746 · through 2024Largest: $93,755 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — pediatric brain cancer research specific to dipg
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $242,350 · through 2022Largest: $38,500 to Leadership Greater Chicago Inc — general operating support, annual appeal class challenge support, to sponsor chicago sinfonietta ed blake-anthonew york johnsons participation in leadership greater chicagos 2022 d…
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute — extramural research
Largest: $500,000 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — the william w. ruch distinguished endowed chair
The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $855,325 to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — grants for scientific research
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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 →