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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 “registry”
Where the money went
Muscular Dystrophy AssociationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
81 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2025Largest: $410,998 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES — medical diagnosis research and movr registry support
Largest: $574,537 to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — the women with inflammatory bowel disease and motherhood (wisdom) registry a prospective study of female fertility in ibd
Largest: $10,000 to HEALTHSHARE EXCHANGE — 77496 providing data for a covid-19 registry research network -- healthshare exchange
American Heart AssociationDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $646,349 · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to EMORY UNIVERSITY — cardiac arrest hospital registry
Mississippi Healthcare AllianceJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $139,418 · through 2024Largest: $25,953 to SINGING RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM — reimbursement for "get with the guidelines" hospital stroke registry
Georgia Center for Oncology Research and EducationAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $318,212 · through 2024Largest: $168,769 to Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County — nci community oncology research program , study of ctdna guided therapy in colorectal cancer, advancing cancer treatment act prostate registry
Largest: $447,451 to OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — to support the donor management research initiative in its efforts to maximize the quality and quantity of life-saving organs, and to build a national, web-based donor management d…
The Sudc FoundationRoseland, NJCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2025Largest: $352,019 to NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — funding of neuropathology research and sudc registry and research collaborative
American Academy of Neurology InstituteMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $183,000 · through 2023Largest: $43,000 to Penn State Health Department of Neurology — axon registry it grant
Rett Syndrome Research TrustTrumbull, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $697,314 · through 2025Largest: $383,228 to RETT SYNDROME GLOBAL REGISTRY CO RSRT — rett research
Largest: $464,065 to EMORY UNIVERSITY — a registry for clinical and functional data for variants in the grin gene family
Largest: $233,400 to Borders Farm Inc — finance farm operations. maintain property on the national historic registry
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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 →