The Office of Foundation Relations has identified private foundation funding opportunities of interest to the Hopkins community. While this list is not intended to be exhaustive, it provides a range of opportunities across academic disciplines.
We encourage faculty and researchers to contact us at [email protected] if interested in applying for any of the opportunities listed below. We would be happy to learn about your work and discuss potential strategies for securing foundation support. We can provide background on individual foundations, guidance on developing competitive proposals and endorsement letters, and serve as a liaison to program officers.
Please note, some foundations require that any approach for funding be made through our office and some limit the number of proposals received from Johns Hopkins University in a given grant cycle. In some cases, Johns Hopkins has maintained long-standing institutional relationships with key funders. To help identify those foundations that merit a more strategic approach, our office maintains a list of centrally managed foundations. We strongly encourage contacting our team before communicating with or submitting a proposal/letter of inquiry to those selected foundations.
| wdt_ID | Submission Deadline | Opportunity | Sponsor | Maximum Award Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | |||||
| 285 | 10/16/2025 | Clinical Research Fellowship Awards | Foundation Fighting Blindness | $65,000 | This award will provide funding for post-residency clinical fellowships in inherited retinal degenerations. Awards will be for $65,000 over one year. |
| 286 | Rolling | Bridge Funding for Disrupted Neurodegenerative Research Grant Program | Alzheimer's Association | Varies | This program specifically aims to provide bridge funding for research projects focused on Alzheimer’s disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, atypical Parkinson's and / or other related disorders that have been impacted by a series of changes at NIH. Amounts vary. |
| 290 | 10/29/2025 LOI | Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences | Simons Foundation | $8,000,000 | The aim of this award is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. Awards will be up to $8,000,000 over four years. |
| 291 | 10/28/2025 | Advancing Technologies for Spatiotemporal Omics in Live Tissue | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | $1,000,000 | This program will be centered on the development of instrumented tissues that provide precise spatiotemporal insights into immune processes in tissue and disease models. Awards will be up to $1 million. |
| 292 | 11/12/2025 | Unmet Need and Emerging Data in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) | Pfizer | $220,000 | Pfizer and Astellas are seeking proposals for independent medical education initiatives that bring awareness and knowledge to healthcare professionals regarding the current gaps in the rapidly evolving MIBC treatment landscape and how emerging data could be valuable for those who treat patients with bladder cancer. Individual projects requesting up to $220,000 will be considered. |
| 293 | 11/13/2025 | Endocrine Therapy Resistance Grants | AstraZeneca | $150,000 | AstraZeneca invites proposals which seek to research the unmet educational needs in 1L HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer and endocrine therapy resistance mechanisms. Awards will be up to $150,000. |
| 294 | 12/1/2025 | Early Career Award | National Blood Foundation | $100,000 | The AABB Foundation awards grants for early career investigator-initiated original research in all aspects of blood banking, transfusion medicine and biotherapies. Awards will be up to $100,000. |
| 295 | 12/10/2025 | Pain Research Awards | Rita Allen Foundation | $150,000 | The aim of this award is to provide a special award for early-career leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the treatment of chronic pain. Awards will be $150,000 over three years. |
| 296 | Varies | Assorted Grants | Breakthrough T1D | Varies | Breakthrough T1D is seeking research proposals in the field of Type 1 Diabetes. Amounts vary. |
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