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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 “molecular”
Where the money went
Largest: $189,734 to INST OF MOLECULAR BIO AND GENETICS — institute of molecular biology and genetics support grant
Largest: $2.6M to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — to support continued development of a revolutionary accelerator design to expand the exploration of particle physics, enable new table-top physics, open up attosecond science and e…
Largest: $1.5M to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION — very early onset inflammatory bowel disease (veoibd) precision molecular diagnoses to targeted therapies boston studies
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $3.0M · through 2025Largest: $250,000 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — creation of a fibroblast/ips cell bank to facilitate peripheral/brain comparisons, and allow molecular investigations into molecular mechanisms underlying differences in disease ag…
Largest: $55,000 to National Institute of Standards and Technology — mri with molecular specificity for a new realm of neurodevelopmental research
Largest: $1.3M to CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PLATFORMS — enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health
The McKnight Endowment Fund for NeuroscienceMinneapolis, MN
7 matching grants · $520,612 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — molecular anatomy of hibernation circuits. principal investigator: sinisa hrvatin, ph.d.
Largest: $150,000 to WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN — investigating molecular mechanisms behind gut bacterial transamination and ibd
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
7 matching grants · $7.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.4M to UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES — to fabricate topological quantum architectures through dna programmable molecular assembly.
Largest: $1.0M to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — molecular and cellular mechanisms of parkinson's disease
Largest: $2,000 to ALEXANDRE GIBAU DE LIMA — systematic studies of senna ser. bacillares (benth.) h.s. irwin & barneby (leguminosae, caesalpinioideae): molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and taxonomic revision
Largest: $165,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — longitudinal profiling of retinal neurovascular abnormalities and molecular biomarkers in prediabetes and early diabetes: establishing novel paradigms for diabetic retinopathy
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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 →