Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer
Research Foundation

P.O. Box 765
Short Hills, NJ 07078-0765
Telephone: (973) 376-0986
E-mail: pfeiffer.research.foundation@gmail.com
Web address: www.pfeifferfoundation.org
Since our Biennial Report is only published every 2 years, our website contains updated information about application process procedures. Please use the information in both the webpage and our Biennial Report when considering applying to the Foundation. The current Biennial Report is dated July 1, 2010.

Background:

The Foundation was established by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer and Louise F. Pfeiffer as a family foundation for the improvement of public health through the advancement of medicine and pharmacy. It was incorporated in 1942 in New York as a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution.

Fields of Interest:

The Foundation makes grants for support of graduate medical and pharmacy school research projects and post-graduate scholarship programs administered by the institution. The Foundation will award grants in different fields of medicine and pharmacy, but does not make grants for cancer and basic biomedical research. For more information on exclusions and limitations, please see the “Limitations” section.

Administration:

All written letters of inquiry and complete grant applications must be addressed to the Foundation Secretary and mailed to the post office mailing address. Courier mail which requires a street address will not be accepted. Mail can be sent via the US Postal System by overnight, priority, express, certified and regular delivery. General questions can be made by email or telephone.

Grant Program:

The Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax-exempt institutions in the United States for projects or programs for advancement of medicine and pharmacy. The Foundation Directors meet to consider grant applications twice a year at the Spring meeting in late April and the Fall meeting in late October. Final notification of the grant application request is approximately four weeks after each meeting. Approximately 10-15% of all completed grant applications are approved at each meeting.

Application Process:

Any research fellow or principal investigator interested in applying for a Letter of Inquiry needs to go through their own institution's office of sponsored research program department to request in writing by email or letter for the Foundation’s Biennial Report, which describes the Foundation’s programs, application process and grants. Grants are made to the application institution and not to the individual research fellow or principal investigator.

In order to apply for a grant, the Foundation requires a two-step process. First, the applicant institution is required to submit a two-page Letter of Inquiry as defined in the Biennial Report. The deadline for the initial Letter of Inquiry is January 8 and July 25. All original documents must be received in hand by 5:00pm, or the Friday before if these dates fall on a weekend. Deadlines are followed closely and all documents received after that time and date will be rejected. Faxed or email documents will not be accepted for review.

Second, if approved, the Secretary will send a letter with a formal request to apply for a grant application and include all requirements and deadline information.

Limitations:

The Foundation does not accept applications without prior approval of a submitted Letter of Inquiry and does not make grants for any of the following: projects involving vivisection or other experiments on or using parts of animal subjects (excluding insects); dissertations, tuitions, fees, sabbatical leave or travel funds for PhD or Masters programs or individual scholarship requests; indirect costs and equipment not used in the application; overhead, supplies, equipment, building, endowment funds or general institutional support; domestic and foreign travel, conferences, exhibits, seminars, lectures, workshops, surveys, or general purposes; delivery of healthcare services; general programs of basic biomedical and cancer research; national fundraising or election campaign organizations, causes or publicly financed projects, and other foundations’ fund raising purposes; and projects which are more appropriate for support by other sources, such as pharmaceutical companies for commercial applications of existing products. The Foundation does not make grants to foreign institutions, foreign projects and institutions or programs located outside the United States.

Updated July 6, 2011