Administration

The Foundation maintains an office at the above address under the charge of its Secretary, Matthew G. Herold. All communications regarding grants should be addressed to that office.

The Foundation publishes a Biennial Report every other year describing its programs and listing grants made during the biennial period. This Report is provided to grant program administrators at many universities and research and other institutions on the Foundation's mailing list. Copies are available upon request to the Foundation office.

Grant Program

The Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax exempt institutions for projects or programs carried out in the United States for advancement of medicine and pharmacy, including scientific research, post-graduate scholarship and fellowship assistance, and studies in nutrition, blindness, deafness and other physical disabilities.

At its Fall 2001 Meeting, the Foundation determined to direct its fields of interest to areas other than basic biomedical research. Accordingly, it will no longer accept new applications for cancer or other basic biomedical research.

The Foundation's Directors meet twice a year to consider grant applications. The Spring meeting is normally held in late April. The Fall meeting is normally held in late October.

Applicants must first submit a two-page Letter of Inquiry (see below for requirements) which must be received not later than January 8 for the Spring meeting, or July 25 for the Fall meeting. If approved, formal applications must be filed by the date specified in the letter of the Foundation approving the proposed project. If the date of any deadline for receipt of a Letter of Approval or Application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, it goes back to the next earlier business day.

Grant Policies

Grants are for a period of one year, subject to possible renewal, limited to two additional one year periods for the same project or investigator.

The Directors normally do not favor projects where the Foundation's support would be relatively insignificant in relation to total external funding required.

No more than 3 letters of inquiry from the same institution per meeting will be accepted.

No more than one active grant will normally be permitted to be outstanding at any institution. Therefore, investigators at an institution where there is an ongoing grant should not submit requests for projects overlapping the period of the funded project and, if that project is a multi-year project, they should bear in mind that a renewal application for that project is likely to be favored over a new project.

Applicants must state whether patent protection may be sought with respect to results of research funded in whole or in part by the Foundation and, if so, that the patent owner's policy is to permit royalty free use of the protected information at tax-exempt organizations for non-commercial use in research projects.

Grants will not be made:

1. for delivery of health care services;
2. which benefit a limited geographical area;
3. for endowment, general institutional support, building programs, chairs or the like;
4. where a major part of the funds are for equipment, exhibits, conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, sabbatical leave or the like;
   
5. for indirect costs;
6. for general programs of research rather than specific research projects of limited duration;
7. to other foundations or fund raising organizations for the purpose of their making grants to others;
8. which are more appropriate for support by other sources, such as pharmaceutical companies for commercial applications of existing products;
9. which involve animal experimentation (other than insects), or
10. to institutions for projects not to be carried out in the United States of America.

Letters of Inquiry

The Letter of Inquiry should not exceed 2 pages and state, in langage which an educated lay person can understand, the nature and purpose of the project, the field of interest of the Foundation to which it relates, the amount requested and a general description of the items to be funded.

The Foundation's Secretary will advise whether submission of a full Application is invited and, if so, will provide details concerning the requirements for such Application.