Manning Family Health and Life Sciences Research Grants
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with awards given three times a year, fostering advancements in health and community well-being.”
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Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Overview
The Manning Family Foundation offers Health and Life Sciences Research Grants to support innovative research aimed at finding effective treatments and cures for diseases like diabetes and macular degeneration. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with awards given three times a year, fostering advancements in health and community well-being.
NOTE: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and awarded three times a year (January, May, and September/October).
Manning Family Foundation
Since 2003, the Manning Family Foundation has been advancing health and healthy communities by awarding grants to exceptional nonprofit organizations. We proudly support innovation in two primary program areas: Health & Life Sciences Research and Local Giving.
We support research that leads to the development of more effective treatments, and ultimately cures, for the world’s most disruptive diseases.
We are passionate about supporting innovative research to find those cures.
Eligibility
The Manning Family Foundation awards grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofits who perform valuable work in our two philanthropic focus areas.
What Manning Family Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 65
- Total given
- $13.52M
- Median grant
- $25K
- Range
- $200–$4.8M
- By dollars: Virginia 40%, Ohio 36%, New York 11%. Top recipient cities: Charlottesville, VA; Boston, MA; Keswick, VA.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 40% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Fidelity Charitable · Cincinnati, OH
General
$4.8M
University of Virginia Health Foundation · Charlottesville, VA
General
$3.06M
Breakthrough T1D · New York, NY
General
$1.5M
University of Massachusetts · Amherst, MA
General
$1M
Duke University · Durham, NC
General
$304K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Science research
- Health disparities
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