The Charles H. Hood Foundation

• The foundation's stated focus is pediatric research, and its Child Health Research Awards go to early-career investigators at nonprofit academic, medical and research institutions in New England, so a charity whose work is outside that field or based outside New England is unlikely to fit.
• A typical grant falls between $40,000 and $160,000, with a median of $100,000, and half of its 71 grants to organisations were $100,000 or less, though its largest grant was $400,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• For the Child Health Research Awards Program, start with a Concept Paper setting out the scientific aims, approach and relevance to child health, since only selected applicants are invited to submit a full proposal.
• Applications are accepted at fixed deadlines, with two award cycles each year, so plan the Concept Paper around the next cycle.
• Repeat giving is heavy, with 80% of its grant dollars to organisations going to groups it had also funded in an earlier filing, so expect a relationship-led and competitive process.

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

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Hood pediatric innovation hub
  $400,0002024 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Child health research award - identifying eeg-based biomarkers of language growth in preschool-aged children with down syndrome
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Child health research award - characterizing the role of two subcortical nuclei in prefrontal regulation of attention
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Child health research award - postnatal exposure to hyperoxia causes maladaptation of the premature intestine
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Child health research award - role of xenobiotic pathways to modulate intestinal epithelial metabolism, as possible targets for obesity and diabetes
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Brigham and Women's Hospital · Child health research award - the role of mesenchymal stem cells to enhance immune function in a model of neonatal infection
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Boston College · Child health research award - improving childhood tuberculosis treatment outcomes and post-tb lung functioning and quality of life in rural south africa
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Yale University · Child health research award - supporting refugee mental health through translation of evaluative instruments and through a preventive mental health intervention
  $100,0002024 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.