Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation supports higher education, scientific research on medical imaging technologies and environmental conservation.
IP TAKE: Martin R. Prince is a renowned scientist and professor in the medical imaging field. His foundation tends to provide ongoing support to a cadre of elite grantees year after year. These include top universities, research institutes and some well-established environmental groups. Grants are limited to U.S.-based organizations. This low-profile funder does not maintain a website or provide a clear way of getting in touch. It A phone number and address are provided below.
PROFILE: The Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation was established in 2005 in New York City. Its founder, Martin R. Prince, is the chief of MRI at New York Hospital and professor of radiology at Cornell and Columbia Universities. He is known for having developed contrast-enhanced MR arteriography technology, including k-space mapping for MRA techniques. The technologies he developed were commercialized by General Electric and other scanner manufacturers and are widely used today. This foundation invests in higher education, scientific research and environmental causes. It does not maintain a website, however, limiting information on its specific grantmaking strategies and priorities.
Grants for Higher Education
Higher education is this funder’s largest area of giving, with universities, medical schools and health-related career development programs receiving numerous grants over the past several years. Most grantees are leading universities and their affiliated medical and nursing schools. Recent grants have gone to Harvard University’s Medical School, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of California at San Francisco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Grants for Environmental Conservation
The Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation has increased its grantmaking for environmental conservation in recent years. Grantees tend to be large national and global organizations working in the areas of land, ocean and wildlife conservation and clean energy initiatives. Past grantees include EarthJustice, the Nature Conservancy, the Greenpeace Fund, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Ocean Conservancy.
Grants for Scientific Research
The Prince Charitable Foundation’s grantmaking for scientific research reflects its founder’s involvement in the field of medical imaging. Recent grants have gone to the Society for Magnetic Resonance Angiography, the Radiological Society of North America and research at leading medical schools across the U.S.
Important Grant Details:
This foundation’s giving approached $1 million in a recent year. Grants have been made in amounts up to $500,000, but the foundation’s average grants size is about $5,000. This funder tends to support well-established organizations that work nationally or globally in the foundation’s areas of interest. For additional information about past grantmaking, see the foundation’s recent tax filings.
The Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation does appear to accept unsolicited applications for funding and does not provide a clear way of getting in touch. The foundation’s phone number is 212-935-6456. A mailing address is provided below.
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CONTACT:
Martin R. Prince Charitable Foundation
515 E. 72nd Street, No 21A
New York, NY 10021
