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.
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University of Arizona
City:
Amount: 100,000
Award Date: 2025
Duration: 18 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Translational Seed Grant: The team has developed a technology that uses green light-emitting diode technology to provide pain treatment. The technology changes the function of the parts of the brain that are involved in recognizing pain through either a panel of green lights or through green light-emitting eyewear. There is a clinical need to innovate pain management while reducing use of opioids. By offering a non-drug-based treatment option, the team hopes to reduce the risk of opioid addiction and improve chronic pain care.
University of Arizona
City: Tucson
Amount: 726,000
Award Date: 2024
Duration: 48 months
Program Area: Flinn Scholars
Scholarship awards for members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2024.
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 College of Medicine-Phoenix
City:
Amount: 5,520,000
Award Date: 2021
Duration: 60 months
Program Area: Bioscience
To support translational research in cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences, and serious mental illnesses. The grant advances research toward the development of therapeutics, establishes two research faculty positions and helps develop the Translational Cardiovascular Research Center and a Department of Translational Neurosciences. Funding also benefits education, including a summer intern program for underreprestened high schoolers.
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
City:
Amount: 100,000
Award Date: 2024
Duration: 18 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Translational Seed Grant: This project proposes to utilize the “saline gargle” COVID-19 PCR testing platform developed at University of Arizona to test for additional pathogens, allowing samples to be collected and tested by anyone, anywhere. To date, there is no all-in-one test for a larger number of respiratory pathogens affecting the public, like SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), strep throat, and common-cold rhinoviruses and coronaviruses.