Funders › MD › Brightfocus Foundation › 2019
Grants paid by Brightfocus Foundation, tax year 2019
EIN 23-7337229 · Clarksburg, MD · Form 990, Schedule I · NTEE G00J
In tax year 2019, Brightfocus Foundation (EIN 23-7337229) reported 64 grants paid totaling $13,642,307. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2019
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | A | $556,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY JILL GOLDSTEIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (CA2018607) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY PETER ABADIR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019634S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of California Irvine Irvine, CA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY KEI IGARASHI, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019380S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BECKY CARLYLE, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019182S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Northwestern University Chicago, IL | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY JUSTYNA DOBROWOLSKA ZAKARIA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019520S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Southern California Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute Los Angeles, CA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ALEXANDRE BONNIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019279S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY THOMAS KUKAR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019355S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY HOSUNG KIM, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019052S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Texas a & M University College Station, TX | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY YUXIANG SUN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019630S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ZHEN ZHAO, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019218S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY NICHOLAS VARVEL, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019077S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY LUKASZ JOACHIMIAK, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019060S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANNA ORR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019363S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Mclean Hospital Belmont, MA | A | $300,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY DARRICK BALU, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019034S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY STEPHEN ALLER, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019212) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Tufts University - Boston Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY WONHEE KIM, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019021F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BRYNDON OLESON, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019250F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BEDE PORTZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019612F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY TIM CORSON, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019069) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY CHAN PARK, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019179) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ELDON GEISERT, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019111) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY EITAN WONG, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019356F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY HEMRAJ DODIYA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019032F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | The Research Foundation for Suny On Behalf of University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MICHAEL FARKAS, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019108) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio San Antonio, TX | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY WENYAN SUN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019223F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Utah State University Logan, UT | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ELIZABETH VARGIS, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019109) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Massachusetts School of Medicine Worcester, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANA BATISTA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019468F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Columbia University Taub Institute for Research New York, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY GUSTAVO RODRIGUEZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019382F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Augusta University Research Institute Augusta, GA | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MING ZHANG, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019035) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Vanderbilt Eye Institute Nashville, TN | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MD IMAM UDDIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019023) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ZONGCHAO HAN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019063) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ALEXANDER MARNEROS, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019184) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY GARETH THOMAS, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019267) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MASATO MAESAKO, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019056F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY RAJU RAJALA, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019168) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY RAUNAK SINHA, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019131) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANNA PIMENOVA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019299F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY GARRETT GIBBONS, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019263F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ROBERT JOHNSTON, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019300) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MARIA CALVO-RODRIGUEZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019488F | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MICHELLE FARRELL, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019029F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY XIAO CHEN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019566F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY SAIDAS NAIR, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019360) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY HAIYAN GONG, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019295) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Duke University Durham, NC | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY MICHAEL HAUSER, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019357) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | New York University School of Medicine New York, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY KEVIN CHAN, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019103) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | New York University School of Medicine New York, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ARJUN MASURKAR, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019602S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY HAIJIANG LIN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019074) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | A | $200,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MIN-KYOO SHIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019551F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY SARAH ZHANG, MD, ENTITLED: (G2019302) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Children's Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY YE SUN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019114) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | The Schepens Eye Research Institute Boston, MA | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY MEREDITH GREGORY-KSANDER, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019340 | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | A | $200,000 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ALEJANDRA BOSCO, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019219) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology Huntsville, AL | A | $199,896 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY NICK COCHRAN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019129F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | A | $199,774 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY TRENT WATKINS, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019332) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, IL | A | $198,052 | paid | MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY JOELLE HALLAK, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019155) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Houston Methodist Research Institute Houston, TX | A | $184,377 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ALIREZA FARIDAR, MD, ENTITLED: (A2019083F) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL | A | $149,998 | paid | NATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY JOHN HETLING, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019356) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Birmingham, AL | A | $100,000 | paid | 2019 HELEN KELLER PRIZE FOR VISION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP. | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene New York, NY | A | $100,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY SYED ABID HUSSAINI, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019307S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | A | $100,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MATTHIAS TRUTTMANN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019157S) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | University of Denver Denver, CO | A | $84,210 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANN CHARLOTTE GRANHOLM-BENTLEY, PHD, ENTITLED: (CA2018010) | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL | A | $60,000 | paid | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: (CA2017563) MOLECULAR NEUROGENERATION JOURNAL | 201912079349300716 |
| 2019 | Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics Meredith, NH | A | $10,000 | paid | TRAVEL GRANTS FOR CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE. | 201912079349300716 |
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