How do I find funders for a medical research nonprofit in Maryland?

Start with the funders already giving to medical research in Maryland, currently Gates Foundation, The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc, University of Miami. Then look at who funds the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.

Who is the largest medical research funder in Maryland?

Gates Foundation gives the most to medical research organizations in Maryland, $35M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to medical research in Maryland?

$164M reached 73 medical research organizations in Maryland, from 395 funders. 36% came from funders also based in Maryland.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Maryland · Medical research

Who funds medical research in Maryland

Maryland's medical research organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 5 funders each.

$164M

granted

organizations

36%

from in-state

The short version

395 funders gave $164M to 73 medical research organizations in Maryland across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
36% of that came from funders also based in Maryland; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of medical research in Maryland is Gates Foundation, at $35M.
The medical research organization drawing the most is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc, at $44M.

Largest funders of medical research in Maryland

The funders giving the most to medical research organizations in Maryland, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Gates Foundation$35M 2The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$32M 3University of Miami$17M 4The Stephen & Renee Bisciotti Foundation$16M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 6American Urological Association Inc$3M 7University of Delaware$3M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$3M 9Johns Hopkins University$2M 10The Michael J Fox Foundation$2M

Medical research organizations in Maryland that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc$44M Foundation Fighting Blindness$32M Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine$29M

63 other medical research organizations$17M

Blackbird Laboratories Inc$16M The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$9M The Lieber Institute Inc$5M

How to find medical research funders in Maryland

1
Start with the funders already active in Maryland
The funders giving the most to medical research in Maryland are Gates Foundation, The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc, University of Miami. A funder already writing medical research checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
64% of medical research money in Maryland comes from funders elsewhere, so national medical research funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maryland.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a medical research nonprofit in Maryland?: Start with the funders already giving to medical research in Maryland, currently Gates Foundation, The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc, University of Miami. Then look at who funds the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.
Who is the largest medical research funder in Maryland?: Gates Foundation gives the most to medical research organizations in Maryland, $35M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to medical research in Maryland?: $164M reached 73 medical research organizations in Maryland, from 395 funders. 36% came from funders also based in Maryland.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.