Active Grants

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.

Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix Regional Campus

City: Phoenix

Amount: $375,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 36 months

Program Area: Bioscience

Support for scaling and validation of a new approach to surgical training that uses donor cadavers preserved through a method developed by technology company Global Anatomix (GAX) to create a significantly more life-like, high-fidelity platform, enabling intentional, repetitive training to accelerate health-care practitioners’ development of procedural safety and competency.

Critical Path Institute

City: Tucson

Amount: $255,000

Award Date: 2019

Duration: 36 months

Program Area: Bioscience

Provision of a renewable discretionary fund of up to $75,000 per year for up to three years to support the transition to a new president and CEO at the Critical Path Institute. The fund will allow the incoming president and CEO to address their most pressing priorities upon joining the organization and facilitate a successful integration both within C-Path and in the broader Arizona community. This grant constitutes the first award under the Robert S. Flinn Biomedical Innovators Program.

Desert Botanical Garden

City: Phoenix

Amount: $80,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 24 months

Program Area: Arts and Culture

Support for a project advancing organizational goals in the “post-pandemic” period. This grant, awarded under the Foundation’s arts-and-culture Initiative for Financial and Creative Health, will involve close examination of the organization’s capitalization strategies.

Flinn Foundation

City: Phoenix

Amount: $160,000

Award Date: 2023

Duration: 48 months

Program Area: Flinn Scholars

Scholarship funds for study-related travel by individual members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2023.

Flinn Foundation

City: Phoenix

Amount: $160,000

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 48 months

Program Area: Flinn Scholars

Scholarship funds for study-related travel by individual members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2022.