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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 “cell”
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Largest: $190,161 to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — advancing b-cell specific therapy by identifying b-cell reactive high affinity t cell receptors
Jdrf InternationalNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
93 matching grants · $54.7M · through 2022Largest: $450,000 to NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — beta cell replacement
Largest: $216,254 to INSTITUTE MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY — developmental and cell type-specific origin of asd pathology at single-cell resolution
Largest: $495,000 to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON — enhanced ribonucleoproteins for therapeutic gene editing of hematopoietic stem cells in sickle cell disease
Largest: $2.3M to CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA FUNDACIO PRIVADA — in support of creating standardized approaches for aquatic symbiosis cell atlases and a cell atlas database for the scientific community.
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
58 matching grants · $12.3M · through 2025Largest: $345,000 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — apoe consortium: investigating potential cell autonomous neuroprotection of apoe protective variants
The Center for Comprehensive Care andOrange, CACharity · may take applications
45 matching grants · $12.8M · through 2023Largest: $3.1M to SICKLE CELL DISEASE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — subcontract hrsa & cdph grants sickle cell treatment demonstration program
Largest: $50,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO STUDIES — to use innovative cell biology techniques coupled with genomics to investigate the role of mitochondrial-derived vesicles in cancer cell metabolism.
Largest: $336,493 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to develop a platform that integrates synthetic cell technologies, thereby creating new research opportunities for the synthetic cell community
Largest: $2.5M to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — to support allen discovery center for cell lineage tracing phase 2
Dravet Syndrome FoundationCherry Hill, NJCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2025Largest: $500,000 to Regents Of The University Of Michigan — despite recent advances in small molecule drug discovery, the majority of dravet syndrome (ds) patients remain intractable and non-seizure symptoms are not addressed. this project …
Largest: $1.0M to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta — research: sickle cell disease healthy lives 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 →