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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 “renal”
Where the money went
Largest: $220,000 to Vanderbilt University Medical Cente — renal implant research
Largest: $49,000 to MAYO CLINIC — to support the mayo nephrology collaborative group for research in renal parenchymal diseases.
Kentucky Nephrology Research TrustLexington, KYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $753,774 · through 2024Largest: $270,548 to UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY DIVISION OF NEPHROLOGY — to support the research, education, prevention and cure of diseases of the kidney and related illnesses through the renal division research fund.
Health Humanities Medicine & ArtLexington, KYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $640,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to KENTUCKY NEPHROLOGY RESEARCH TRUST INC — to support the organization's mission to provide for the care and treatment of patients with renal failure and support research for kidney diseases and related bone abnormalities.
Largest: $7,500 to Children's Hospital of Los Angeles — gofarr gabriel's org funding all renal research
Largest: $80,000 to DIALYSIS CLINICS INC — research, education and other activities related to chronic renal failure and transplantation
Largest: $165,000 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — defining the molecular landscape and therapeutic targets in translocation renal cell carcinoma
Community Foundation of WesternSpringfield, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $27,150 · through 2024Largest: $6,850 to FRIENDS OF RENAL DIALYSIS FOUNDATION — general health
Direct ReliefSanta Barbara, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $275,000 · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to CONSEJO RENAL DE PUERTO RICO — abbvie pr medically fragile populations
The Foundation for Kidney PatientsHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $101,000 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND — to provide support to patients and practitioners across end state renal networks in the united states to seek to assure healthcare security for patients.
Vhl AllianceBoston, MACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $100,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — synthetic essentiality of trail/tnfsf10 in vhl-deficient renal cell carcinoma
Largest: $1,000 to RENAL SUPPORT NETWORK — to assist organization in accomplishing its goals
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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 →