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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.

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Every grant, 2019

Grants reported by Brightfocus Foundation for tax year 2019
Tax yearRecipientMatchAmountTypePurposeSource filing
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MAA$556,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY JILL GOLDSTEIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (CA2018607)201912079349300716
2019Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MDA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY PETER ABADIR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019634S)201912079349300716
2019Regents of the University of California Irvine Irvine, CAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY KEI IGARASHI, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019380S)201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BECKY CARLYLE, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019182S)201912079349300716
2019Northwestern University Chicago, ILA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY JUSTYNA DOBROWOLSKA ZAKARIA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019520S)201912079349300716
2019University of Southern California Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute Los Angeles, CAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ALEXANDRE BONNIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019279S)201912079349300716
2019Emory University Atlanta, GAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY THOMAS KUKAR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019355S)201912079349300716
2019University of Southern California Los Angeles, CAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY HOSUNG KIM, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019052S)201912079349300716
2019Texas a & M University College Station, TXA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY YUXIANG SUN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019630S)201912079349300716
2019University of Southern California Los Angeles, CAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ZHEN ZHAO, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019218S)201912079349300716
2019Emory University Atlanta, GAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY NICHOLAS VARVEL, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019077S)201912079349300716
2019The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TXA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY LUKASZ JOACHIMIAK, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019060S)201912079349300716
2019Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NYA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANNA ORR, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019363S)201912079349300716
2019Mclean Hospital Belmont, MAA$300,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY DARRICK BALU, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019034S)201912079349300716
2019University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, ALA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY STEPHEN ALLER, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019212)201912079349300716
2019Tufts University - Boston Boston, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY WONHEE KIM, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019021F)201912079349300716
2019Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MIA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BRYNDON OLESON, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019250F)201912079349300716
2019University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY BEDE PORTZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019612F)201912079349300716
2019Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, INA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY TIM CORSON, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019069)201912079349300716
2019Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY CHAN PARK, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019179)201912079349300716
2019Emory University Atlanta, GAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ELDON GEISERT, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019111)201912079349300716
2019Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NYA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY EITAN WONG, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019356F)201912079349300716
2019University of Chicago Chicago, ILA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY HEMRAJ DODIYA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019032F)201912079349300716
2019The Research Foundation for Suny On Behalf of University at Buffalo Buffalo, NYA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MICHAEL FARKAS, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019108)201912079349300716
2019University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio San Antonio, TXA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY WENYAN SUN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019223F)201912079349300716
2019Utah State University Logan, UTA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ELIZABETH VARGIS, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019109)201912079349300716
2019University of Massachusetts School of Medicine Worcester, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANA BATISTA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019468F)201912079349300716
2019Columbia University Taub Institute for Research New York, NYA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY GUSTAVO RODRIGUEZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019382F)201912079349300716
2019Augusta University Research Institute Augusta, GAA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MING ZHANG, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019035)201912079349300716
2019Vanderbilt Eye Institute Nashville, TNA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY MD IMAM UDDIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019023)201912079349300716
2019University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NCA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ZONGCHAO HAN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019063)201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MAA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY ALEXANDER MARNEROS, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019184)201912079349300716
2019Temple University Philadelphia, PAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY GARETH THOMAS, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019267)201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MASATO MAESAKO, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019056F)201912079349300716
2019University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OKA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY RAJU RAJALA, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019168)201912079349300716
2019University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WIA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY RAUNAK SINHA, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019131)201912079349300716
2019Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NYA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANNA PIMENOVA, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019299F)201912079349300716
2019University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY GARRETT GIBBONS, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019263F)201912079349300716
2019Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MDA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ROBERT JOHNSTON, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019300)201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MARIA CALVO-RODRIGUEZ, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019488F201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MICHELLE FARRELL, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019029F)201912079349300716
2019Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MAA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY XIAO CHEN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019566F)201912079349300716
2019University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY SAIDAS NAIR, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019360)201912079349300716
2019Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY HAIYAN GONG, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019295)201912079349300716
2019Duke University Durham, NCA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY MICHAEL HAUSER, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019357)201912079349300716
2019New York University School of Medicine New York, NYA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY KEVIN CHAN, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019103)201912079349300716
2019New York University School of Medicine New York, NYA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ARJUN MASURKAR, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019602S)201912079349300716
2019University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MAA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY HAIJIANG LIN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019074)201912079349300716
2019Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OHA$200,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MIN-KYOO SHIN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019551F)201912079349300716
2019State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NYA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY SARAH ZHANG, MD, ENTITLED: (G2019302)201912079349300716
2019Children's Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School Boston, MAA$200,000paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY YE SUN, MD, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019114)201912079349300716
2019The Schepens Eye Research Institute Boston, MAA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY MEREDITH GREGORY-KSANDER, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019340201912079349300716
2019University of Utah Salt Lake City, UTA$200,000paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY ALEJANDRA BOSCO, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019219)201912079349300716
2019Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology Huntsville, ALA$199,896paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY NICK COCHRAN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019129F)201912079349300716
2019Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TXA$199,774paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY TRENT WATKINS, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019332)201912079349300716
2019The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, ILA$198,052paidMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH BY JOELLE HALLAK, PHD, ENTITLED: (M2019155)201912079349300716
2019Houston Methodist Research Institute Houston, TXA$184,377paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ALIREZA FARIDAR, MD, ENTITLED: (A2019083F)201912079349300716
2019University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, ILA$149,998paidNATIONAL GLAUCOMA RESEARCH BY JOHN HETLING, PHD, ENTITLED: (G2019356)201912079349300716
2019Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Birmingham, ALA$100,000paid2019 HELEN KELLER PRIZE FOR VISION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP.201912079349300716
2019Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene New York, NYA$100,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY SYED ABID HUSSAINI, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019307S)201912079349300716
2019Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MIA$100,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY MATTHIAS TRUTTMANN, PHD, ENTITLED: (A2019157S)201912079349300716
2019University of Denver Denver, COA$84,210paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY ANN CHARLOTTE GRANHOLM-BENTLEY, PHD, ENTITLED: (CA2018010)201912079349300716
2019Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Jacksonville, FLA$60,000paidALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: (CA2017563) MOLECULAR NEUROGENERATION JOURNAL201912079349300716
2019Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics Meredith, NHA$10,000paidTRAVEL GRANTS FOR CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE.201912079349300716

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