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 |
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| 2 | |||||
| 167 | Rolling | Pioneering Ideas Grants | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | $315,031 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneering Ideas Grants seeks proposals that are primed to impact health equity moving forward. The foundation is interested in ideas that address any of their four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. They may also support research outside of these areas, as long it offers a unique approach to advancing health equity and contributes to the foundation's Culture of Health. While there is not an explicit range for budget requests, the average grant during the 2019 cycle was for $315,031. |
| 184 | Varies | Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real-World Tasks | Open Philanthropy | $3,000,000 | In order to help build scientific understanding of the near-term impacts of large language models (LLM) like GTP-4, Open Philanthropy is looking to fund benchmarks that measure how close LLM agents can get to performing consequential real-world tasks. Specifically, when they will be able to replace or outperform humans in professions which account for a large share of the labor market, cause large scale economic or physical destruction, or hugely accelerate the pace of technological R&D. Grants are expected range from $300,000 to 3 million over 6 months to 2 years. |
| 196 | None | Causal Research on Community Safety and the Criminal Justice System | Arnold Ventures | $500,000 | Arnold Ventures' Criminal Justice Initiative seeks research that will build credible evidence on policies, practices, and interventions that can improve crime and justice system outcomes and grow the number of policies and practices shown to produce improvements in community safety and to make the justice system fairer and more effective. There is no deadline for submitting a letter of interest; applicants may submit a letter of interest at any time via email to [email protected]. While there is no budget ceiling, there is a median budget of $500,000. |
| 197 | Rolling | Medical Educational Grants | Bayer Corporation | Variable | Bayer Corporation is taking grant requests for medical education research on a variety of topics including Hematology, Women's Health, Cardiovascular and Renal, and Oncology. Details regarding the specifics of each opportunity, including budget, can be found through the link above. |
| 206 | Quarterly | Research Grants | Abiomed | Variable | Abiomed funds research that investigates how mechanical circulatory support with Impella® heart pumps may improve patient outcomes. Areas of interest include Best Practices in Urgent Patient Populations, Long Duration Impella Support for Heart Recovery, Cardiac Surgery, and End Organ Protection with Impella. All types of research programs will be considered, including, but not limited to: clinical studies and pre-clinical investigations. Research proposals are reviewed quarterly, and award amounts vary. |
| 260 | 04/04/2025 | 2025 Independent Medical Education Grant | Genentech | $150,000 | As part of Genentech’s scientific mission, Genentech supports grants for independent medical education that aims to improve patient care by focusing on the improved application of knowledge, competence, and performance among healthcare professionals. Currently available RFP focus areas are listed through link above. Awards will grant up to $150,000. |
| 261 | 04/14/2025 | Young Investigator Award | CureSearch | $75,000 | CureSearch's Young Investigator International Award in Pediatric Cancer Drug Development supports the recruitment of promising early-career scientists to a research career in pediatric oncology. CureSearch’s mission is to drive innovative research to clinical impact to accelerate the delivery of novel therapeutics to pediatric cancer patients. A key component of this mission is to ultimately drive outstanding translational and preclinical research to clinical trials and beyond towards commercialization. The applicant will receive $75,000 per year for three years. Continued support for second- and third-year funding is contingent upon a non-competitive review and demonstration of satisfactory and timely completion of milestones. |
| 262 | 04/17/2025 | Open Grant | WITH Foundation | $150,000 | WITH Foundation was created to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities. Grant applications must complement this mission and align with one of the listed areas of support. WITH will consider grants of up to $150,000. |
| 263 | 04/30/2025 | Understanding and Targeting Innate Immunity in Type 1 Diabetes Pathogenesis | Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | $300,000 | The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’s (Helmsley) Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Program aims to support the discovery and development of new therapies to prevent or delay T1D and the identification and validation of biomarkers to predict disease initiation and progression. The proposed funding term can be up to three years. Requested funding amounts can range based on activities. Laboratory-based studies may be supported with a total budget of up to $300,000 per year. Clinic-based studies may be supported with a total budget of up to $500,000 per year. |
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