The Mayday Fund

How to apply, from its 2024 IRS return

How to ask

The Mayday Fund's current grant making targets are: projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain; pediatric pain; pain in non-verbal populations; and pain in the context of emergency medicine. Mayday will also continue to be proactive in its commitment to promote networking between veterinary and human medicine, especially in an effort to inform measurements of pain in non-verbal populations. Finally, the directors of the Mayday Fund wish to be nimble…

Deadlines

There are no deadlines. Applications are offered for consideration at the next board meeting.

Limits on who can apply

Grants are made to public charities and educational institutions officially recognized as such by the IRS. The Mayday Fund concentrates its activities in the United States. On occasion, grants have been made to Canadian organizations where the project has an effect with international impact. Grants cannot be made to individuals.

Grants paid in 2024

$820,355, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.