The Baszucki Family Foundation

• The Baszucki Family Foundation focuses on metabolic psychiatry implementation, scientific convenings and continuing medical education, so your work needs to sit squarely within those themes to have any realistic chance.
• It only accepts applications by invitation and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity without an existing relationship or invitation should not apply directly.
• Giving is relationship-led: 64% of its grant dollars to organisations in its latest filing went to organisations it had already funded in the two prior filings, suggesting new applicants face a steep climb.
• If you are invited to apply, pitch realistically: about 8 in 10 of its 36 grants to organisations fall between $10,000 and $2,200,000, with a median of about $245,000, though it has made grants as large as $3,000,000.
• No geographic focus is stated, so do not assume location rules it out or in.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Unite America Insititute Inc · For unite america fund ($1.8m) and unite america operations ($500k).
  $2,300,0002024 tax year
• University of Pittsburgh · Support the project elucidating neurobiological mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect of the ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder (bd): a multidisciplinary mechanistic study being conducted by mary philips, md.
  $2,173,5792024 tax year
• Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles · Pilot + rct in adolescents with bipolar disorder.
  $1,498,6512024 tax year
• Mayo Clinic · 16-week ketogenic intervention for bipolar depression: roadmap clinical trial driving clinical implementation.
  $1,380,6172024 tax year
• Research Foundation for the State University of New York · A research project to develop a data-driven software platform for modeling computational psychiatry known as neuroblox under the direct supervision of l. r. mujica-parodi, ph.d., $1,022,977 in 2022, $997,128 in 2023, $1,001,326 in 2024.
  $1,001,3262024 tax year
• Research Foundation for the State University of New York · Support the use of ketosis in modulating metabolic pathways in bipolar disorder.
  $997,6052024 tax year
• Regents of the University of California, San Diego · Therapeutic ketogenic diet to treat anorexia nervosa-specific cognitions and behaviors.
  $588,1122024 tax year
• Columbia University in the City of New York · General support for research in mitochondrial psychobiology, currently being conducted by dr. martin picard.
  $500,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.