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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 “probes”
Where the money went
Largest: $918,048 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to support scientific research by dr. judy cha, including development of in situ probes for monitoring materials growth by chemical vapor deposition and of scalable fabrication pro…
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
6 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $233,899 to YALE UNIVERSITY — new research directions probing the nature of dark matter: beyond the current impasse
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
6 matching grants · $7.1M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — to develop a carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance probe to study the chemistry of confined systems.
Largest: $325,507 to UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK — to test critical aspects of a plan to probe the quantum nature of gravity by entangling two microdiamonds via their mutual gravitational attraction
Largest: $105,000 to DIANA LUCIA ALBA - CALIFORNIA U OF — 78312 probing the cellular determinants of adipose tissue health versus fibrosis in the regulation of human insulin sensitivity -- diana lucia alba, md
Largest: $750,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — probing molecular pathways of parkinson's disease
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $603,750 · through 2025Largest: $201,250 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — probing the molecular underpinnings of how g protein-coupled receptor adgrg1 mediates protective responses to alzheimer's disease
Largest: $295,566 to UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES — generation of new anti- fxyd2a probes and preclinical validation for human beta cell imaging
Largest: $120,000 to University of Missouri — a new tool to probe condensed-phase chemistry: rotational spectroscopy of buffer-gas cooled molecules desorbed from an ice surface
Largest: $74,000 to SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — development of novel light-up rna aptamer-fluorophore probes with tunable optical properties
United Way of Lebanon CountyLebanon, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to PROBE — health & human services
Largest: $40,000 to OHSU FOUNDATION — chemical probe modulation of foxp3 to inhibit regulatory t-cell immunosuppression
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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 →