Game-Changer Grant
Funding Amount
$600,000 over three years
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- September 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
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Eligible organizations
- Research institution
- Nonprofits
Geography
- Michigan
Overview
The ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation Game-Changer Grant funds promising pediatric brain cancer research with an emphasis on DIPG/DMG. Awards are $600,000 over three years. To date the foundation's grant program has committed over $33 million to 80+ researchers across 42 institutions.
How to Apply
Applicants are researchers at institutions. Apply via the foundation's 'Apply for a Grant' page (chadtough.org); consult the current RFA for cycle deadlines.
What Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 23
- Total given
- $6.3M
- Median grant
- $176K
- Range
- $5,454–$1.63M
- 26% of its 2024 grant dollars went to recipients in Michigan, where this grant's project is located.
- By dollars: Michigan 26%, Massachusetts 22%, California 17%. Top recipient cities: Cambridge, MA; Houston, TX; New York, NY.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 61% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI
Research grant
$1.63M
University of California · San Francisco, CA
Research grant
$1.05M
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc · Boston, MA
Research grant
$602K
Duke University · Durham, NC
Research grant
$383K
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo · Cambridge, MA
Research grant
$383K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
- Cancer
Project Locations
- MI
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