Sponsor a PurposeThe Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Grantmaking profile built from public IRS Form 990 filings.
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Grants on file | 485 |
| Total giving on file | $41.1M |
| Typical grant size | $85K |
| Most recent filing year | 2025 |
| Website | https://www.neuroscience.mcknight.org |
What they fund
- A Feminist Framing of Fruitless: Maleness as a Suppression of Female Neural Programs. Principal Investigator: E. Josie Clowney
- A High-speed Holographic Device for Optogenic Control of Thousands of Neurons. Principal Investigator: Rikky Muller
- A New Technology to Control the Transcriptome. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Kieft
- A Pathway for Hunger Modulation of Learned Food Cue Responses in Insular Cortex
- Accelerating Drug Discovery for Cognitive Disorders Through Structural Studies of a Serotonin Receptor. Principal Investigator: Daniel Wacker
Largest recipients on file
| Recipient | State | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | NY | 16 | $1.4M |
| Columbia University | NY | 19 | $1.3M |
| Stanford University | CA | 15 | $1.1M |
| University of California San Francisco | CA | 12 | $1.1M |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | 14 | $1.1M |
| New York University | NY | 13 | $975K |
| Johns Hopkins University | MD | 13 | $854K |
| Uc Los Angeles | CA | 10 | $850K |
| University of Michigan | MI | 11 | $825K |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | CA | 8 | $800K |
Other foundations in Minnesota
The Mcknight FoundationMargaret a Cargill FoundationWem FoundationOtto Bremer TrustUnited Health FoundationThe Bush Foundation
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