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12 funders with a record of paying for “sensitive”
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National Council of Urban Indian HealthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
56 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2023Largest: $184,330 to BAKERSFIELD AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH PROJECT — support and development of quality, accessible, and culturally sensitive health care programs. support and development of quality, accessible, and culturally sensitive health care …
Largest: $225,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — in support of research to develop ultra-sensitive nanomechanical mass sensors.
Largest: $247,500 to BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — deep phenotyping and genomic studies to guide gene-based therapies in dosage sensitive genomic disorders
Largest: $237,560 to CENTRE FOR CATALYZING CHANGE — to establish a gender-transformative ecosystem in rural areas to improve womens safety and security through training women leaders and their collectives, as well as through sensiti…
Largest: $100,000 to HOSHEN — to support the general operations of this organization focused on sensitivity training and raising awareness on lgbtq issues in the greater community, as well as an assessment of i…
Largest: $200,000 to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to study an electric-dipole-moment (edm) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped sroh, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upper limit on the electron e…
Largest: $50,000 to University of Arizona — development of an integrative approach to enhance surveillance sensitivity systems for wildlife spillover of bovine tuberculosis: wild pig case study
Largest: $66,000 to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine — for applying participatory decision-making processes to support smallholder farmers' actions for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable local agri-food systems
Largest: $213,278 to UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES — studying the selective b cell sensitivity to a homozygous pd-l1 mutation in neonatal diabetes
Largest: $60,000 to NAT'L WATER RESEARCH INST — to be used for its general operating expenses in order to persue its mission to conduct research activities that provide information to the public about the sensitive environment o…
Largest: $45,000 to Dana Farber Cancer Institute — dr. david barbie research sensitizing small cell lung cancer to immune checkpoint blockade by restoring neoantigen displayeducation
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
4 matching grants · $582,331 · through 2022Largest: $225,000 to NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER — enable the organization to achieve its mission of providing culturally sensitive programs and services creating a pan-asian community that advocates for and supports itself by prov…
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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 →

