About Parkinson's Foundation
The Parkinson’s Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Focus Areas
Parkinson’s disease researchParkinson’s disease careEducationPatient and caregiver supportHealthcare professional educationClinical researchBasic researchTranslational researchDrug discovery and developmentGenetic testing and counselingEnvironmental factors linked to Parkinson’s disease
Who They Fund
academic medical centers / research institutions
About Parkinson's Foundation
Parkinson's Foundation Inc channels most of its funding into Parkinson’s research and the clinical infrastructure needed to move that work into practice. Among its largest recent awards are a $1,942,300 grant to Fulgent Therapeutics LLC for clinical work and a $1,863,693 grant to Indiana University for clinical research, signaling support for both commercial and academic research settings. The foundation also backs the institutions that carry Parkinson’s studies forward, including multi-hundred-thousand-dollar awards to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and to the Parkinson Study Group Inc. Its grantmaking also reaches universities, hospitals, and research groups that support training, trials, and translational work. Across the recent grants list, the organization funds a mix of medical research, professional training, and clinical research projects rather than a single narrow channel. The program structure shows support for early-career researchers, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and center-based research, which points to a layered approach: fund the people, the studies, and the research centers that connect them. That combination makes the foundation visible as a disease-focused funder with both research and care priorities.
What Parkinson's Foundation Funds
In clinical research, the foundation backed Rune Labs Inc with $225,000 for clinical research and Advarra Inc with $202,100 for clinical research. Those grants show attention to the systems that support studies as well as the studies themselves. In medical research, it awarded $300,000 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham for medical research and $217,000 to Harvard University for medical research, alongside other university-based projects. Professional training also appears in the grants list: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation received $668,474 for professional training, matching the foundation’s stated interest in clinician and scientist development. It also supported research groups such as the Parkinson Study Group Inc, which received $310,000 in 2025 for medical research, indicating backing for collaborative Parkinson’s research networks.
How Parkinson's Foundation Gives
The foundation’s typical grant size sits at a p25 of $12,600, a median of $17,100, and a p75 of $60,000. Recent awards also include several much larger research grants, showing a broad spread between smaller training or support awards and larger institutional funding. The organization is a regular funder and does not fund individuals. Its grantmaking includes both unsolicited programs and designated programs, with some awards made through structured research-center funding and fellowships. The grant list shows recurring support to the same institutions across multiple years, including repeated awards to Indiana University, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Florida, and Parkinson Study Group Inc.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$14.5M
Total Assets
$62.7M
Total Revenue
$84.2M
Total Expenses
$69M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $13K and $60K, with a median of $17K.
25th Percentile
$13K
Median
$17K
75th Percentile
$60K
Geographic Reach
National49 states funded
About 9% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
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