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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 “salk”
Where the money went
The Kavli FoundationLos Angeles, CA
8 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — salk kavli institute director fund
Largest: $50,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — symphony at salk
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic CancerUniondale, NYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — pancreatic cancer research
Largest: $849,544 to SALK INSTITUE — medical research
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2025Largest: $201,250 to THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGIAL STUDIES — to elucidate the role of memory t cells as a determinant of age-related inflammation in alzheimer's disease
Largest: $85,000 to Salk Institute — $15,000 symphony at salk, $35,000 lyumkis, $35,000 cancer research
Largest: $1.1M to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — investigator award research grant
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $732,380 to THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — subaward - sponsored research
Largest: $256,168 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — research project
Clayton Medical Research FoundationCarson City, NVCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $4.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.9M to The Salk Institute — medical research
Marin Community FoundationNovato, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $350,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES — support the fred h. gage laboratory
Largest: $50,000 to SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO STUDIES — to use innovative cell biology techniques coupled with genomics to investigate the role of mitochondrial-derived vesicles in cancer cell metabolism.
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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 →