One Mind

About One Mind

One Mind’s largest recent grant was a $958,533 award to Healthy Brains Global Initiative Inc for support of a new HGBI entity, signaling a funder that invests in research infrastructure as well as individual investigators. Across its recent grants, the foundation backs mental health and neuroscience work, with a strong emphasis on early-career science, translational research, and workplace mental health. Its program language points to high-risk, high-reward foundational neuroscience, serious mental illness, provider burnout, higher education mental health, stigma reduction, and support for workers with serious mental illness. The grant list shows a clear pattern of direct research support at universities and affiliated foundations. One Mind has given multiple $300,000 awards tied to its Rising Star program, including grants to Columbia University, Wayne State University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, the University of Southern California, and the Scripps Research Institute. It also makes targeted awards through research engagements and partnerships, alongside program funding for initiatives such as Aurora and LHCN. The organization’s use of program-related investments further aligns with a mix of grantmaking and mission-related capital.

What One Mind Funds

In neuroscience research, One Mind funds investigator-directed projects at the $300,000 level. Examples include a 2024 Rising Star award to Oregon Health and Science University for “Tracing and Manipulating Neural Circuits with Recombinant Viruses” and a 2025 award to Northwestern University supporting work by Dr. Talia Lerner on the neural circuitry of motivation, learning, and individual differences. Its mental health portfolio also reaches into translational and services research. One Mind gave $102,500 to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for AMP-Schizophrenia projects and another $100,000 for an AMP Schizophrenia project. Workplace mental health appears as a separate line of effort. The foundation launched Flourish@Work as a pilot project to support workers with serious mental illness, and its Salus awards recognize leadership in workplace mental health. The foundation also supports research on youth and development, including a 2025 grant to Wayne State University for work by Dr. Hilary Marusak, a tenured associate professor whose lab is focused on child and adolescent brain development and mental health.

How One Mind Gives