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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 65-6301255

McKnight Brain Research Foundation

A private foundation in Orlando, FL. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 6 grants and $3.1 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2024 (period ending Jun 30, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Foundations and Endowments Specialt
c/o Truist Bank 333 S Garland, Avenue 17th Floor
Orlando, FL 32801
(202) 879-6319
Form and materials
No required format.
Deadlines
None.
Restrictions
The following guidelines will be used in review of applications: - Innovative and efficient approaches to fundamental medical research of the brain on the mechanisms underlying the formation, storage and retrieval of memories, the impairment of these processes associated with aging, and the development of therapeutic strategies for the prevention and/or alleviation of these impairments in humans, intended principally for clinical application. - Seed grants to initiate promising new projects for medical research of the brain in age related memory loss. - Grants to charitable organizations or institutions involved in the medical research of the brain in age related memory loss. - Proposals for collaborative support between individual research scientists of different institutions and organizations in age related memory loss.

Assets and giving by year

6 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2024

    $3,115,156

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $37,351,567

  • Tax year 2023

    $4,443,873

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $39,392,794

  • Tax year 2022

    $1,681,922

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $42,597,623

  • Tax year 2021

    $2,097,815

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $44,833,059

  • Tax year 2020

    $1,591,958

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $42,432,702

  • Tax year 2019

    $2,062,589

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $35,202,162

Grants paid in 2024

6 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. American Federation for Aging ResearchNew York, NY

    Funding of research

    $1,543,700
  2. Foundation for the NIHNorth Bethesda, MD

    Funding of research

    $1,000,000
  3. American Brain FoundationMinneapolis, MN

    Funding scholarship in cognitive aging and memory loss

    $247,500
  4. University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL

    Funding of research

    $172,588
  5. University of Alabama BirminghamBirmingham, AL

    Funding of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at UAB

    $94,270
  6. University of ArizonaTucson, AZ

    Funding of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona

    $57,098

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Social science1 grant $1,543,70079% of the total
  2. Medical research1 grant $247,50013% of the total
  3. Education1 grant $172,5889% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York1 grant $1,543,700
  2. Maryland1 grant $1,000,000
  3. Minnesota1 grant $247,500
  4. Florida1 grant $172,588
  5. Alabama1 grant $94,270
  6. Arizona1 grant $57,098

Officers, directors and trustees

13 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Angelika SchlangerExecutive Director (end 7/24) Hours 40Pay $36,333
  • Amy PorterInterim Executive Director (7/24-4/25) Hours 20Pay $119,792
  • Dr Alice Luo ClaytonCEO (began 4/25) Hours 40Pay $54,167
  • Dr Madhav ThambisettyTrustee Hours 6Pay $170,000
  • Dr J Lee DockeryTrustee Emeritus Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Dr Michael DockeryTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Dr Susan PekarkseTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Truist BankTrustee Hours 15Pay $187,650
  • Allison BrashearTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Patricia BoyleTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Dr John BradyTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Dr Roy HamiltonTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000
  • Dr Sharon BrangmanTrustee Hours 6Pay $50,000

The return

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