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Foundations

Looking for funding from foundations?
Learn more about potential funders from their IRS 990 forms. 990s are informational tax forms that most tax-exempt organizations must file annually. The form gives information about the organization's mission, programs and finances - including grants awarded.

Candid 990 Finder
Search a database of individual 990 forms of private foundations, public charities, and other nonprofits.
GuideStar
Find data and profiles for non-profit organizations and foundations.
Demystifying the 990-PF
Learn how to read a 990 tax form.
Form 990 Instructions and Background Documents
Instruction sheet from the Internal Revenue Service.

Per MCW policy, all faculty and staff must work through the Office of Development before approaching or responding to private foundations for funding. Please contact the Office of Development at (414) 955-4739 with questions.

Non-government Funding Opportunities

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW)
AHW regularly issues requests for applications (RFAs) for funding awards, and they seek partners who share the belief that by working together we can build a healthier Wisconsin today, and for generations to come.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund's grantmaking strategies support biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers and areas of science that are poised for significant advancement but are currently undervalued and underfunded.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation (GMF)
A permanent charitable endowment that helps individuals create permanent funds to support causes they care about in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Washington counties and beyond.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (pcori)
PCORI funds research that offers patients and caregivers the information they need to make important healthcare decisions.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of research and initiatives to help address some of America’s most pressing health challenges.
MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer)
Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation
The Foundation has supported many new initiatives as well as ongoing research initiatives and programs at leading medical and research institutions focused on the development, testing and approval of new, less toxic, more effective therapies for multiple myeloma and related diseases.
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
FORE is a national grantmaking foundation committed to convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation For The Blind, Inc. (EMZ)
The EMZ Foundation announces the availability of funds to support promising young investigators performing innovative vision research. The EMZ Foundation is particularly interested in supporting basic or translational research that enhances our understanding of normal visual function, or dysfunction as the result of innate or acquired visual disorders.
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
Sharing the vision of our Founder, Craig H. Neilsen, the Foundation is committed to a world where individuals with spinal cord injuries, and those who care for them, live full and productive lives as active participants in their communities.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
The mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to fund research that will lead to the prevention, treatment and cures for the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome, Stargardt disease and related conditions.
National Hemophilia Foundation
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is dedicated to finding cures for inheritable blood disorders and to addressing and preventing the complications of these disorders through research, education, and advocacy enabling people and families to thrive.

Professional Associations

proposalCentral
An e-grantmaking website shared by many government, non-profit, and private grant-making organizations. Various non-profit sponsors use proposalCENTRAL, including the American Cancer Society, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association and St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
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If you have any questions regarding MCW institutional information in a proposalCENTRAL application or signing schedules of institutional contacts, please contact the Office of Grants & Contracts at (414) 955-8563 or email aor@mcw.edu.