Active Grants

Below is a list of the “active” grants of the Flinn Foundation—those grants that have been awarded and have yet to receive final payment; and/or for which grant-related activities have not concluded.

Many Flinn Foundation grants are multi-year awards that receive payments at several junctures. In some cases, grants are extended (without additional funding) beyond their scheduled date of conclusion.

This list is not comprehensive, as it excludes modest grants for membership dues to philanthropic organizations and other miscellaneous awards, but represents the Foundation’s project-specific grant-making activity to achieve its strategic goals.

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

City: Tucson

Amount: $80,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 24 months

Program Area: Arts and Culture

Support for a project advancing organizational goals in the “post-pandemic” period. This grant, awarded under the Foundation’s arts-and-culture Initiative for Financial and Creative Health, will involve close examination of the organization’s capitalization strategies.

University of Arizona

City: Tucson

Amount: $660,000

Award Date: 2023

Duration: 48 months

Program Area: Flinn Scholars

Scholarship awards for members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2023.

University of Arizona

City: Tucson

Amount: $100,000

Award Date: 2023

Duration: 12 months

Program Area: Bioscience

A follow-on grant to sustain support for a project, in partnership with Banner University Medical Center – Tucson, to establish a novel treatment for the deadly bacterial pathogen C. difficile. C. difficile infections, or CDI, are the most common healthcare-associated infection in many hospitals and there are currently no preventive treatments or vaccines for the disease. The researchers will further study their non-antibiotic, orally palatable therapeutic, Syn-LAB, with the hope of moving the treatment into clinical development. This grant is awarded under the Flinn Foundation Translational Research Seed Grant Initiative to support research collaborations between basic scientists and clinical researchers.

University of Arizona

City: Tucson

Amount: $660,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 48 months

Program Area: Flinn Scholars

Scholarship awards for members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2022.

University of Arizona

City: Tucson

Amount: $100,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 18 months

Program Area: Bioscience

Support for a project, in partnership with Banner Health, to develop to develop a library of patient-specific skull base tumors, in which trainees can utilize a mixed-reality neurohinologic simulator. This grant is awarded under the Flinn Foundation Translational Research Seed Grant Initiative to support research collaborations between basic scientists and clinical researchers.