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12 funders with a record of paying for “suppression”
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National Alliance of State andWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2022Largest: $172,934 to WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH — build datasharing capacity in state hiv and medicaid programs to increase the number of states that adopt rhw hic viral suppression quality measure and report to cms.
Largest: $627,089 to THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — study of covid-19 antibody response under sustained immune suppression
Largest: $100,000 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — to map the transcriptional and protein changes induced by lactate and identify the mechanisms that cause nk suppression, on both nk and tumor cells, using high-throughput and unbia…
Concern FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $195,000 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST LOUIS — investigate the tumor suppressive role of arid homologs in melanoma
Largest: $50,000 to SB MORGEN DIGITAL LIMITED — for a research project on accountability and sanctions for perpetrators of electoral violence, voter suppression, and electoral corruption in nigeria
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $480,209 · through 2025Largest: $201,250 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — targeting reactive astrocytes ampk signaling to suppress inflammation in alzheimer's disease
Largest: $312,000 to RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SACRED SITES IN ALASKA — fire suppression for holy ascension cathedral in unalaska
Largest: $63,518 to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — to support the organization's efforts to combat voter suppression and to support gender and sexual equality programming.
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $130,041 · through 2023Largest: $68,021 to AFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for creating an interpretive plan and fire suppression installation
Largest: $100,000 to BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE — voter suppression
The McKnight Endowment Fund for NeuroscienceMinneapolis, MN
2 matching grants · $149,913 · through 2023Largest: $75,000 to University of Michigan — a feminist framing of fruitless: maleness as a suppression of female neural programs. principal investigator: e. josie clowney
Largest: $3,000 to ROCAWAY BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — fire suppression and prevention, emergency medical services, rescures, and mutal aid to surrounding communities.
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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 →