Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Wellcome Investigator Award is a multi-year foundation grant in the UK biomedical sector.
- Is an instance
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant supports a US health-policy research project at 10 percent indirect cap.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An NIH R01 is a federal grant, not a foundation grant.
- Not an instance
A pharmaceutical company-sponsored research agreement is industry, not foundation, funded.
Editorial commentary
Foundations are a significant funding source for biomedical, social, and educational research, with major examples including Wellcome (UK), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Volkswagen Foundation. Foundation grants often have idiosyncratic terms: lower or capped indirect cost recovery, mission-aligned reporting expectations, named-PI structures rather than competitive open calls, and longer or shorter terms than government norms. Some foundations operate near-fixed annual grant cycles.
References
- Foundation Center (Candid) annual giving reports; Association of Charitable Foundations (UK).
Also known as
Charitable foundation grant · Private foundation grant
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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