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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 “skull”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to NYU LANGONE HEALTH — for application to a skull-based fellowship in the department of neurosurgery under the direction of dr. john golfinos
Largest: $200,000 to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — neurosurgery skull base research and innovation fund
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $575,000 · through 2024Largest: $201,250 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — contribution of skull bone marrow-derived cells to alzheimer's disease
The American Laryngological RhinologicalOak Brook, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $80,000 · through 2023Largest: $40,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FRANCIS CREIGHTON MD — research grant - cooperative control robotics and computer vision: development of semi-autonomous temporal bone and skull base surgery
Largest: $1,000 to SKULL DAGGER FOUNDATION — sch - for scholarships
Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — support for seed grant: virtual portfolio for skull base surgical training
Burton Family FoundationPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $225,000 · through 2023Largest: $225,000 to BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — to support of the department of ent skull base surgery: hearing health science program (2024 womens board project), the ivy brain tumor center and the thurston innovation center
With God All Things Are PossibleColorado Springs, COCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $70,000 · through 2023Largest: $70,000 to Skull Games — support outreach for at-risk people
Largest: $52,000 to BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — woman's board project: ent skull base surgery
Largest: $10,000 to SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION — bella and don barden scholarship fund
Largest: $67,080 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — combining in vivo trans-skull imaging of neonatal brain activity with computational approaches to elucidate early abnormalities of brain activity in a mouse model of autism
Largest: $5,000 to MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — to support temp bone skull base research
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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 →