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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 “protein”
Where the money went
Largest: $157,182 to VERENIGING GREEN PROTEIN ALLIANCE — the protein tracker project
Largest: $1.9M to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — in support of research to develop a genetically encoded protein-based qubit quantum biosensor.
Largest: $100,000 to COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — mechanistic studies of protein toxin delivery by bacterial contact-dependent inhibition systems
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2025Largest: $268,750 to DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — plasma proteins, sex and alzheimer's diease: proteomewide analyses of the uk biobank and framingham heart study
Largest: $432,420 to EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY — to support a project titled, "ageing proteins: biology or chemistry? systematic characterization of young and old proteins in vivo"
Largest: $750,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — engineered cytokine/antibody fusion protein to treat crohns disease
The Good Food InstituteArlington, VACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $249,997 to WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY — enhancing the high moisture extrusion protein texturization process through better understanding of cooling die scalability and thermochemical protein texturization mechanisms
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
8 matching grants · $9.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — to develop targeted protein degradation, advanced imaging, and supercomputing methods to study the biological effects of tau aggregates in human neurons.
Largest: $100,000 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — to map the transcriptional and protein changes induced by lactate and identify the mechanisms that cause nk suppression, on both nk and tumor cells, using high-throughput and unbia…
Largest: $211,667 to UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — understanding and reversing large protein underproduction in fragile x-associated disorders
Largest: $400,000 to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — support for research project entitled, stimulating synaptic protein degradation for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Largest: $114,000 to Harvard University Medical School — in vivo tracking of g protein-coupled receptors sensing for gut metabolites
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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 →