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 | |||||
| 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. |
| 293 | 11/21/2025 | 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. |
| 298 | Rolling | Assorted Grants | Bristol Myers Squibb | Varies | BMS accepts funding requests within the therapeutic areas of interest such as cardiovascular, cell therapy, hematology, immunology, neuroscience, oncology, health equity, etc. Award amounts vary. |
| 302 | 11/13/2025 | Advancing Technologies for Spatiotemporal Omics in Live Tissue | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | $1,000,000 | Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invite applications for research projects that merge cutting-edge engineering with deep biological inquiry to illuminate the dynamic molecular landscape of health and disease. Grants will be up to $1 million. |
| 303 | 11/24/2025 | Combination therapies funding call | Cure Parkinson's | £300,000 | This funding call welcomes both preclinical and clinical applications from around the globe to test rationally designed combinations of two or more drugs for disease modification in Parkinson’s. Awards will be up to £300,000. |
| 304 | 11/24/2025 | Supporting Ageing Adults Living with Rare Diseases | Pfizer | $25,000 | This funding call seeks to support projects that improve programs and policies focused on improving the care of adults living with a rare disease. Awards will be up to $25,000. |
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