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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 “neural”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — how does the brain predict the future? large-scale neural calcium imaging, two-photon optogenetic and deep neural network studies of future prediction across 11 neocortical areas i…
The McKnight Endowment Fund for NeuroscienceMinneapolis, MN
27 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Syracuse University — two-photon tracking technology to read and manipulate neural patterns in freely moving animals. principal investigator: mirna mihovilovic skanata
Tiny Blue DotWest Hollywood, CA
6 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2024Largest: $2.5M to UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON — supporting research to understand the neural correlates and physical substrate of consciousness in the brain; supporting research to help people open their minds and let go of thei…
Largest: $55,000 to University of Pennsylvania — investigating the conscious accessibility of neural replay
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2025Largest: $301,069 to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — air pollution and ad risk interact with premature aging of neural stem cells and apoe alleles
Biomedical Research and Longevity SocietyFort Lauderdale, FLCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2025Largest: $785,172 to Advanced Neural Biosciences — scientific research and education
Largest: $250,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA — research on decoding the regulatory dynamics underlying neural crest control of adult heart regeneration
Largest: $6.2M to UCSF FOUNDATION — establish the william k. bowes, jr. biomedical investigator program, ucsf osher center research support, the neural code of speech, cardiology council, ucsf discovery fellows
The Kavli FoundationLos Angeles, CA
5 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $833,333 to KAVLI NEURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE (ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY) — kavli nsi phase iii
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
4 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES — (keck court biomedical initiative) generality and translation: designing a new neural-behavioral research platform to close the gap
Largest: $528,078 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — to continue the experimental research to neural quantum processing
Largest: $100,000 to BCM - Dr Ben Arenkiel — dr. ben arenkiel, a designated mcnair scholar at baylor college of medicine, uses the mouse model and the feature of adult neurogenesis to investigate how neural stem cells continu…
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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 →