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Private and non-federal funders
162 foundations, institutes and private funders of scientific research. Most publish calls on their own schedule rather than to a central index, so this records what each funds and where their announcements appear — not a deadline we do not have.
11th Hour Project / Schmidt Family Foundation
agriculture · climate-environment · energy
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
arts-humanities · genomics · materials
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
data-science · education · energy · materials
Alicia Patterson Foundation
arts-humanities
ALS Association
neurodegeneration · rare-disease
American Cancer Society
cancer
American Council of Learned Societies
arts-humanities
American Diabetes Association
metabolic
American Lung Association
cancer · infectious-disease
American Parkinson Disease Association
neurodegeneration · parkinsons
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
arts-humanities · education · health-equity
Annie E. Casey Foundation
education · health-equity · housing
Arnold and Mabel Beckman / Rosalind Franklin
instrumentation · structural-biology
Arnold Ventures
education · health-equity · public-safety
Arthritis Foundation
aging · immunology
Australian Research Council
arts-humanities · climate-environment · materials
Barr Foundation
arts-humanities · climate-environment · education
Beckman Foundation
data-science · materials · structural-biology
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
agriculture · education · global-health · infectious-disease
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — US Program
education · health-equity · workforce-training
Bill Nye / Planetary Society
space
Bloomberg Philanthropies
arts-humanities · climate-environment · global-health · public-safety
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
cancer
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
data-science · genomics · infectious-disease
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
clinical-research · genomics · neurodegeneration
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
materials
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
clinical-research · genomics · health-equity
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
cancer
Cancer Research Institute
cancer · immunology
Cancer Research UK
cancer
Carnegie Corporation of New York
arts-humanities · education · public-safety
Cedar Tree Foundation
climate-environment · education
Chan Soon-Shiong / Sanford Burnham
cancer · genomics
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
data-science · genomics · neuroscience · structural-biology
Charles A. Dana Foundation
education · neuroscience
Charles E. Kaufman Foundation
genomics · materials · structural-biology
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
climate-environment · education · workforce-training
CHDI Foundation
neurodegeneration · rare-disease
Chicago Community Trust
arts-humanities · education · housing
Cleveland Foundation
arts-humanities · education · workforce-training
ClimateWorks Foundation
climate-environment · energy
Connecticut Innovations / CT Bioscience
genomics · materials
Creative Capital
arts-humanities
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
immunology · metabolic
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
genomics · rare-disease
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
arts-humanities · genomics · materials
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
arts-humanities
Doris Duke Foundation
arts-humanities · clinical-research · health-equity
Doris Duke Foundation — Environment
climate-environment
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
education · health-equity
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
neuroscience · rare-disease
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation
genomics · structural-biology
Ellison Medical Foundation / Ellison Institute
aging · cancer
Emerson Collective
climate-environment · education · health-equity
Energy Foundation
climate-environment · energy
Enterprise Community Partners
housing · infrastructure
Environmental Defense Fund partnerships
climate-environment
Epilepsy Foundation
neuroscience · rare-disease
Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund
neuroscience
European Research Council
arts-humanities · genomics · materials · neuroscience
Florida Department of Health
cancer · neurodegeneration
Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale
clinical-research · genomics
Ford Foundation
arts-humanities · health-equity · public-safety · workforce-training
Foundation Fighting Blindness
genomics · rare-disease
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
agriculture · climate-environment
Georgia Research Alliance
data-science · genomics · materials
Getty Foundation
arts-humanities
Grass Foundation
neuroscience
Guggenheim Foundation
arts-humanities
Heinz Endowments
arts-humanities · climate-environment · education
Heising-Simons Foundation
climate-environment · education · space
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
genomics · neuroscience
Hereditary Disease Foundation
neurodegeneration · rare-disease
Hewlett Foundation
arts-humanities · climate-environment · education · public-safety
Houston Endowment
arts-humanities · education · housing
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
genomics · health-equity · neuroscience
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
genomics · immunology · neuroscience · structural-biology
Illinois Innovation Network / DCEO
infrastructure · materials · workforce-training
Irvine Foundation
arts-humanities · workforce-training
Jane Coffin Childs Foundation
cancer · genomics
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
genomics · materials
JDRF (Breakthrough T1D)
immunology · metabolic
Joyce Foundation
climate-environment · education · public-safety
Kavli Foundation
materials · neuroscience · space
Kellogg Foundation
agriculture · education · health-equity · rural
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
arts-humanities · education · immunology
Kidney Cancer Association / American Society of Nephrology
cancer · metabolic
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship
neuroscience
Knight Foundation
arts-humanities · education · infrastructure
Knight Foundation — Journalism
arts-humanities · data-science
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
data-science · materials · structural-biology
Kresge Foundation
climate-environment · education · health-equity · housing
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
cancer
Life Sciences Research Foundation
genomics · immunology · structural-biology
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
housing · infrastructure · workforce-training
Lumina Foundation
education · workforce-training
Lupus Research Alliance
immunology
Lustgarten Foundation
cancer
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
climate-environment · genomics · materials
Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
cancer
Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund
genomics · neurodegeneration
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
genomics · instrumentation · workforce-training
Mathers Foundation
genomics · neuroscience · structural-biology
McKnight Foundation
neuroscience
Melanoma Research Alliance
cancer
Michael J. Fox Foundation
neurodegeneration · parkinsons
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
infrastructure · materials · workforce-training
Muscular Dystrophy Association
neurodegeneration · rare-disease
National Endowment for Democracy
global-health · public-safety
National Geographic Society
arts-humanities · climate-environment · space
National Health and Medical Research Council
clinical-research · genomics · global-health
National Humanities Center
arts-humanities
National Kidney Foundation
metabolic
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
immunology · neurodegeneration
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
climate-environment · data-science · materials
New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research
cancer
New York State Stem Cell Science
genomics · neurodegeneration
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
agriculture · genomics · materials
Novo Nordisk Foundation
genomics · metabolic · structural-biology
Ohio Third Frontier
data-science · materials · workforce-training
Open Society Foundations
global-health · health-equity · public-safety
Packard Foundation
climate-environment · data-science · materials · space
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
cancer
Parkinson's Foundation
neurodegeneration · parkinsons
Pennsylvania CURE
cancer · clinical-research
Pew Charitable Trusts
genomics · immunology · neuroscience
Prostate Cancer Foundation
cancer
Pulitzer Center
arts-humanities · climate-environment · global-health
Rally Foundation
cancer · rare-disease
Research to Prevent Blindness
neuroscience · rare-disease
Rett Syndrome Research Trust
neuroscience · rare-disease
Rita Allen Foundation
cancer · immunology · neuroscience
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
education · public-safety
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
arts-humanities · public-safety
Robert Wood Johnson / Rural
health-equity · rural
Rockefeller Foundation
agriculture · energy · global-health · health-equity
Russell Sage Foundation
education · health-equity · workforce-training
Schmidt Ocean Institute
climate-environment · instrumentation
Searle Scholars Program
genomics · neuroscience · structural-biology
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
mental-health · neuroscience
Skoll Foundation
climate-environment · education · global-health
Sloan / Schmidt Sciences
climate-environment · data-science · space
Sloan Digital / NSF-adjacent: Templeton
arts-humanities · data-science · space
Smith Family Foundation
genomics · neuroscience
Sontag Foundation
cancer · neuroscience
Spencer Foundation
education
St. Baldrick's Foundation
cancer · rare-disease
Surdna Foundation
arts-humanities · climate-environment · workforce-training
Susan G. Komen
cancer
Swiss National Science Foundation
genomics · materials · neuroscience
Terra Foundation for American Art
arts-humanities
UK Research and Innovation
arts-humanities · climate-environment · genomics · materials
Vallee Foundation
genomics · structural-biology
Volkswagen Foundation
arts-humanities · data-science · materials
W. M. Keck Foundation
instrumentation · materials · space · structural-biology
Wallace Foundation
arts-humanities · education
Walton Family Foundation
agriculture · climate-environment · education
Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund
cancer
Wellcome
genomics · global-health · infectious-disease · mental-health
Wenner-Gren Foundation
arts-humanities
Whitehall Foundation
neuroscience
Wilburforce Foundation
climate-environment
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