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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 “immunology”
Where the money went
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational FundNew Orleans, LACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $321,915 · through 2023Largest: $85,326 to LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — subcontract grant award
Carleton CollegeNorthfield, MNCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $227,555 to UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — rui: linking ecology, behavior, and immunology to spatio-temporal variation in helminth transmission
The Ahmanson FoundationBeverly Hills, CA
8 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to CONCERN FOUNDATION — toward research in tumor immunology at the lautenberg center
Largest: $1.2M to LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — the conrad prebys foundation flow cytometry core at la jolla institute for immunology
The Stanley & JoyceBeverly Hills, CA
6 matching grants · $94,600 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to CONCERN FOUNDATION — to support and provide critical funding to post-doctoral cancer researchers focused primarily on cancer genetics, cell biology to advance essential cancer immunology research condu…
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $530,736 · through 2024Largest: $241,286 to LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — subaward - sponsored research
Largest: $21,000 to ERVIN GYENGE — scholarship to do research with dr bolond zlgyarto in the dept of microbiology and immunology sidney kimmel medical
Edward Medof Foundation for Excellence ImmunologyPepper Pike, OH
5 matching grants · $62,740 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to University Southern California — immunology research lab studies
The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $8.5M · through 2023Largest: $3.8M to LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — grants for scientific research
Largest: $25,000 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — the jan l. blomstrann immunology research fund.
CureboundSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $603,832 to La Jolla Institute for Immunology — support cancer research
Largest: $4.1M to LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — discovery and translational sciences; hiv
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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 →