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12 funders with a record of paying for “stress”
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National Young Farmers CoalitionHudson, NYCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2024Largest: $309,756 to FARM AID — to build an inclusive and comprehensive network for farm and ranch stress assistance in the northeast
Largest: $15,200 to MICHIGAN ST U COL OF HUM MED — 77131 analyzing lead levels in the baby teeth of participants in the impact of resilience, interventions, stress, and environmental exposure study
Largest: $692,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — to study the impact of an evidence-based trauma treatment on identifying and reducing physical health indicators of stress.
Largest: $1.6M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — the jpb research network on toxic stress
The Stanley & JoyceBeverly Hills, CA
8 matching grants · $217,500 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION — to support prevention and eradication of the epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at-risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of the transcendental meditat…
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2025Largest: $201,250 to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — role of psychosocial stress in alzheimer's disease
Hedge Funds CareNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $198,872 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to WEST COAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — win partners with families to repair caregiver-child relationships while children's brains are still forming. win's develops three programs for families. child development program …
Largest: $17,616 to LESLIE QUADE — stressed to the tooth: stress and dental cortisol concentrations
Largest: $197,636 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — symtoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress among coal miners
Largest: $871,250 to CROHN'S COLITIS CURE — enhancing inflammatory bowel disease care consumer-centric portal for better communication & reduced navigation stress
Largest: $100,000 to UNIVERSITY OF KY — to understand how maladaptive changes to the integrated stress response pathway alter the force generating ability of human heart cells and determine if pharmacological manipulatio…
Center for the Advancement ofMerritt Island, FLCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $509,499 · through 2023Largest: $257,416 to OCULOGENEX INC — gene therapy to prevent spaceflight associated oxidative stress and apoptosis
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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 →