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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 “degeneration”
Where the money went
Brightfocus FoundationClarksburg, MDCharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $8.4M · through 2024Largest: $598,868 to OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — macular degeneration research by yali jia, phd, entitled: (m2023008i)
Largest: $206,434 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — macular degeneration research of the eye studies
Largest: $78,152 to UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — non-archimedean methods in the study of complex degenerations
Largest: $25,000 to ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION (AFTD) — frontotemporal degeneration research
Largest: $175,000 to FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS — support age related macular degeneration research
Hi FoundationFort Lauderdale, FL
7 matching grants · $70,000 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION — to support basic and applied research and provide education for eye diseases.
Muskingum County Community FoundationZanesville, OHCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $145,859 · through 2023Largest: $35,812 to THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — general purposes & to support research to find a cure for (1) macular degeneration, wet & dry, (2) glaucoma, (3) any additional causes of blindness including cataracts, various can…
Prevention of Blindness Society ofWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $131,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — vision research grant - targeting lipid metabolism and drusen formation in age-related macular degeneration (amd).
Largest: $250,000 to EMORY UNIVERSITY — research: retinal degeneration (boatright lab)
Alzheimer'S Disease Research FoundationWellesley Hills, MACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $836,132 · through 2025Largest: $258,750 to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — the role of planar cell polarity proteins in tau oligomer-induced synapse degeneration (cfsf supplement)
Largest: $10,000 to BrightFocus Foundation — alzheimer, mascular degeneration and national glaucoma research.
Largest: $250,000 to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — age-related macular degeneration 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 →