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Funder Details:
Funder Type:
Private
Funding Frequency:
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Use of Funds:
Programs/Projects, General Operating
Funding Duration:
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Application Type
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Eligibility:
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Program Areas:
Education, Research, Youth, Technology, Health, Science, Healthcare, Higher Education Institutions, Job Training, STEM Education
Locations:
Illinois
About The Grant
The Brinson Foundation invites grant-seeker inquiries from organizations that focus on education in Chicago and its immediate region. The Brinson Foundation contributes to society in the areas of education and scientific research.
Education Programs
Health Care Career Development – programs that spark interest among high school and college students in healthcare-related career paths or provide professional development and accreditation supports for existing health care professionals.
High School, College and Career Success – programs that provide motivated students and young adults of limited means with the academic support, personal skills, and financial resources needed to reach their full potential in school and careers.
Liberty, Citizenship, and Free Enterprise – programs that educate and promote the principles of liberty, citizenship, and free enterprise to elementary through graduate school students and adults.
Literacy – programs that develop foundational and advanced literacy skills, that support educator knowledge growth and continuous improvements to instruction, and that further empower people with understanding and tools to foster literacy throughout their lives.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) – programs that provide STEM education for youth and adults, promote careers in STEM, support professional development for STEM educators, and communicate STEM content to the general public.
Student Health – programs that foster the health of preschool through high school students to help them stay enrolled and be productive in school.
The Foundation’s education grants are generally made to organizations that serve individuals and communities in the greater Chicago area. Leading U.S.-based programs that reach broader populations across the U.S. or internationally, or that have the potential to have a meaningful impact on best practices at the national or international level, are also considered for funding.
Scientific Research Programs
Scientific Research
Astrophysics/Cosmology – the study of the behavior, physical properties, and dynamic processes of celestial objects and related phenomena; and the study of the origin and evolution of the Universe and its largest structures.
Evolutionary Developmental Biology – a field of biology which synthesizes embryology, molecular and population genetics, comparative morphology, paleontology, and molecular evolution to understand the evolution of biodiversity at a mechanistic level.
Geophysics – the study of the physical processes and phenomena occurring in and on the Earth and in its vicinity.
Medical Research
We partner with leading medical research institutions to fund promising studies conducted by early career scientists that have the potential to develop innovative clinical interventions for chronic conditions, as well as highly treatable conditions that negatively impact the productivity of large segments of the population.
In all cases, we focus our medical research funding on areas that improve the quality of life as distinct from solely extending life.
The Foundation does not accept grant seeker inquiries in medical research.
The Foundation’s scientific research grants are made to leading organizations across the United States. In this priority area, the location of the program is less critical than the match with the Foundation’s grantmaking focus areas.
Requirements
Grant seekers should review the Foundation’s mission, vision, beliefs, priorities, and focus areas, as well as the grantmaking guidelines, before submitting an inquiry. Inquiries are accepted throughout the year.
The Foundation will consider grant inquiries from organizations based in the United States that have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from tax, under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and to be public charities, as described in Section 509(a)(1), (2), or (3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“501(c)(3) Public Charities”). 501(c)(3) Public Charities classified under Section 509(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code may be required to submit additional information.
In general, the Foundation’s international grantmaking is conducted exclusively through 501(c)(3) Public Charities. In extraordinary circumstances identified by the Foundation’s staff and approved by the Board of Directors, the Foundation may consider funding non-U.S. organizations without a determination from the Internal Revenue Service of status, under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Non-U.S. Organizations”). In these isolated situations, grantmaking will be subject to the Foundation completing an “equivalency determination” or exercising expenditure responsibility to make restricted grants to such organizations. Given the highly limited circumstances in which the Foundation will consider grants to non-U.S. organizations, they are generally discouraged from submitting inquiries to the Foundation.
Grantor Information:
Restrictions:
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