Grants

Grants are awarded through a Request for Proposals process or by invitation. Unsolicited proposals are not accepted. The Foundation's grant programs target three areas of funding interest.

Biosciences:

Grant projects aim to strengthen Arizona's biosciences infrastructure and thereby improve the state's capacity to compete nationally in the biosciences economy. The Foundation supports multidisciplinary, collaborative efforts involving research teams at the state's public universities and nonprofit research institutions. Grants do not support a specific disease, discipline, or single investigator's interests.

Flinn Scholars Program:

The Flinn Foundation supports the Flinn Scholars Program which, in partnership with Arizona's three public universities, awards 20 fully-paid undergraduate scholarships to Arizona's top high school seniors. The program aims to strengthen the ability of the universities to compete for such students and to provide the students an outstanding academic experience. About 400 students apply every year for the 20 awards.

Arts:

For a five-year period, the Foundation is supporting the start-up activities of the Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture (MPAC), a nonprofit organization established in September 2004 to develop arts and culture as a vital component of future economic development planning and growth in the Phoenix metropolitan area.