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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 “tissue”
Where the money went
Largest: $501,000 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER — t and b cell receptor atlas across tissues and stages of type 1 diabetes
Largest: $156,474 to KLINIKUM ERNST VON BERGMANN GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH — research proposal - "morphological mri investigation of subcutaneous adipose tissue in lipedema patients"
Largest: $225,000 to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — in support of research to develop a biochemical technology to visualize dynamic maps of protein secretion in live, unmodified tissues.
Largest: $500,000 to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — to support real-time label-free dynamic imaging of extracellular vesicles in live tissues
Center for the Advancement ofMerritt Island, FLCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $235,581 · through 2023Largest: $32,329 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — develops a human cardiac muscle tissue chip system to examine microgravitys effects on heart tissue structure and function to improve understanding of heart disease on earth and as…
Largest: $200,000 to SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER — general operating
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $862,500 · through 2025Largest: $258,750 to WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY — a three-dimensional tissue model linking tau tangles, ab and microglial cd33- isoform state to gene- and isoform-expression dysregulation (cfsf supplement)
Largest: $40,000 to OHSU FOUNDATION — establishing an intestinal epithelial organoid platform for tissue-scale cryo-electron tomography
The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $795,799 · through 2023Largest: $423,420 to SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE — grants for scientific research
Swifty FoundationWoodridge, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $410,000 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to Seattle Children's Foundation — tissue navigator and tissue collection program.
Largest: $105,000 to DIANA LUCIA ALBA - CALIFORNIA U OF — 78312 probing the cellular determinants of adipose tissue health versus fibrosis in the regulation of human insulin sensitivity -- diana lucia alba, md
Largest: $400,016 to The Perry Institute for Marine Science Inc — to support research and education on the development of a national framework to address the impact of stony coral tissue loss disease
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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 →