Private Grants

This grant provides financial and strategic support to individuals and organizations dedicated to improving the health, housing, legal, and community needs of transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals across the United States.

This award provides funding for innovative vision research that explores new ideas and approaches to understanding the visual system and related diseases, targeting faculty members at U.S. higher education institutions.

This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations, schools, and government agencies in Kosciusko County, Indiana, to support health and wellness initiatives that benefit the local community.

This grant provides funding for innovative research projects focused on advancing the understanding and treatment of age-related macular degeneration, specifically targeting full-time faculty at U.S. higher education institutions.

This award provides funding to support early-career ophthalmology faculty in their vision-related research, helping them establish independent research careers.

This funding opportunity supports small nonprofit organizations in Central Minnesota to strengthen their operational capacity in areas like food and housing support, job training, and mental health services.

This program provides financial support to individual artists in Southwest Minnesota to help them develop their skills, reach new audiences, and sustain their artistic careers.

This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations, public schools, and government units in southwest Minnesota to support community arts projects such as performances, exhibitions, and festivals.

This grant provides funding to Massachusetts-based community organizations that improve health access for low-income and marginalized populations by enhancing their capacity and infrastructure.

This funding opportunity provides $2,500 to U.S. small business owners and entrepreneurs to help them grow their ventures through various initiatives, marketing, or operational improvements.

This mini-grant program provides funding for individuals and organizations in New York to support projects and activities that promote soil health research, education, and awareness.

This grant provides substantial funding to early-career physician-scientists dedicated to innovative cancer research, allowing them to focus on their research with significant protected time from clinical duties.

This funding opportunity provides $150,000 to support researchers studying blood diseases who have recently applied for NIH grants, helping them bridge the gap in funding while they await results.

This grant supports collaborative partnerships among cultural nonprofits, local businesses, and government entities in California to establish and promote new cultural districts that celebrate and preserve local cultural assets.

This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations in Stark, Carroll, Holmes, Tuscarawas, and Wayne Counties, Ohio, to strengthen their infrastructure and enhance their long-term sustainability.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research in group psychotherapy, targeting projects that explore therapeutic approaches and their effectiveness in naturalistic settings, particularly for early career psychologists and diverse applicants.

This funding opportunity supports community organizations in western and central New York that are working to reduce firearm violence through education and intervention, particularly focusing on vulnerable populations such as pregnant individuals, young children, and older adults.

This grant provides funding for U.S. researchers to collaborate internationally in order to advance treatments for blinding disorders, fostering knowledge exchange and strengthening partnerships in vision science.

This grant provides funding to ophthalmic researchers in the U.S. to advance the understanding and treatment of amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye."

This grant provides $3,500 to psychologists with lived experience to support research or innovative programs focused on peer support, advocacy, and related fields.