The Greenwall Foundation

The Greenwall Foundation is a US private foundation based in Washington, DC.

Profile derived from the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) and its website, with every statement checked against those sources. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The Foundation supports research that resolves important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical and public-health decision-making, policy and practice, with a practical real-world impact. Its Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking initiative funds projects that bring bioethics into policymaking, while its Faculty Scholars Program enables early-career faculty to undertake innovative bioethics research. The Foundation seeks a broad, inclusive bioethics, welcomes diverse voices and perspectives, and aims to increase bioethics’ influence on policy decisions. In the Making a Difference programme, research teams commonly combine bioethics scholarship with people experienced in relevant clinical, research, industry or public-service settings; it also encourages engagement with lay and community stakeholders. Awards are made to affiliated individuals at institutions with US tax-exempt status.

Themes

• Real-world bioethics
• Bioethics policymaking
• Inclusive bioethics

Geographic Focus

No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in Massachusetts, Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, New York and the United States.

What They Don't Fund

• Making a Difference Grants only: Projects for which bioethics is not the main focus; Projects that simply describe or analyze bioethics issues or provide a conceptual framework, without making practical recommendations for resolving the issues; Projects that implement or make incremental improvements in established approaches to bioethics problems, build institutional infrastructure, or provide bioethics education, training, or coursework; Projects that have predetermined conclusions or advocate for predetermined positions; Projects whose main goal is to convene or enhance a meeting, unless there is a well-developed plan to produce a major peer-reviewed publication with consensus recommendations, guidelines, or best practices that have a strong likelihood of real-world implementation; Projects to support or extend ongoing or core activities of an organization; Projects with a principal investigator who does not have a PhD, JD, MD, or an equivalent doctoral-level degree
• Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants only: bioethics research; direct or grassroots lobbying (i.e., attempts to influence specific legislation)

Eligible institutions can use the Making a Difference and Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking routes. Making a Difference begins with a letter of intent; the Foundation reviews these and invites a subset to submit full applications. Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking uses an online full-application process. The Faculty Scholars Program is a separate route for early-career faculty.

• Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 82% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
• Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 150 grants to organisations were about $53,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

• It encourages applications aligned with its priorities of building an inclusive bioethics and increasing bioethics’ impact on policymaking.
• Successful teams commonly combine bioethics scholarship with people who have on-the-ground experience of the bioethics dilemma.
• It encourages applicants to engage relevant lay or community stakeholders throughout their projects.
• It gives priority to projects with smaller budgets and shorter timelines.