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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 “novel”
Where the money went
Largest: $14.5M to SCHRODINGER INC — create novel technology platform capabilities; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $180,000 to Rutgers the State University of New Jersey — in support of novel approaches to the synthesis of artificial quantum materials and investigations of novel phenomena away from equilibrium in these materials.
Largest: $1.5M to CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES — clinical trial to evaluate a novel mdi-bgm decision support system
National Collegiate Investors &Hadley, MACharity · may take applications
53 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to Arizona State University — grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, stem-based inventions and gai…
Largest: $409,152 to PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY — microbial nitrogen cycling: novel organisms and enigmatic processes
Largest: $82,500 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — using human neurons, in vitro, to investigate novel mechanisms of altered brain excitability in patients with epilepsy susceptibility due to deletion of the 15q11.2 locus
Largest: $269,969 to University Hosp Cleveland Med Ctr — 78231 studying whether a novel model that adjusts
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2025Largest: $258,750 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — exploring novel drug candidates for alzheimer's disease through integrative pathway analysis and validation in 3d cellular models (cfsf supplement)
CureboundSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $7.1M · through 2024Largest: $4.7M to THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC SAN DIEGO — 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: $150,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — investigating the intestinal microenvironment in inflammatory bowel disease under physiologic conditions using a novel ingestible sampling device
Largest: $350,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — research of a novel approach to immunization against pathogens and tumors
Largest: $750,000 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — functional studies of novel ad-associated microglial gene rare variants
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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 →