In 2025, The Greenwall Foundation made grants beyond our core programs and initiatives that reflected the urgency of the moment and our long-standing commitment to strengthening bioethics and making it integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. Alongside continued investment in current and future bioethics scholars, we recognized the heightened need to advance the development and dissemination of reliable evidence and information to guide ethical policy- and decision-making.
STAT’s Bioethics Reporting
To help document ongoing changes to research funding and regulatory structures, as well as their impact, we made a grant to the Boston Foundation to provide funding for STAT’s award-winning newsroom to cover bioethics in these evolving times. To date, this has led to the publication of three in-depth pieces:
- As Dangerous Eugenic Ideas Spread, NIH Falls Silent | December 18, 2025 | Megan Molteni and Anil Oza
- Brain Organoid Pioneers Fear Inflated Claims About Biocomputing Could Backfire | November 17, 2025 | Megan Molteni
- As Brain Organoids Grow Increasingly Complex, Leading Scientists and Bioethicists Call for Global Oversight | November 6, 2025 | Megan Molteni
Your Local Epidemiologist
Through a grant to the Social Good Fund, we are supporting Your Local Epidemiologist’s work to communicate timely, evidence-based public health content delivered by trusted messengers—meeting people where they are so they are better equipped to distinguish fact from misinformation and make informed decisions.
Vaccine Integrity Project
We made a grant to the University of Minnesota Foundation to support the Vaccine Integrity Project, a nationally coordinated effort dedicated to providing trusted, science-based information for informed vaccine choices, for example, by providing decision-makers with an evidence base for immunization recommendations and clinical consideration.
Faculty Scholars Program Gap Funding Initiative
We instituted a Gap Funding Initiative to enable sustainable, continued contributions to bioethics from Faculty Scholars and Alums who were negatively impacted by recent changes to the federal research funding landscape.
Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Sponsorship Program
With a grant to Emory University, we continued our support of the Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Sponsorship Program (CUSP), which provides financial aid, mentorship, and networking opportunities for undergraduate bioethics students.
You can read more about the Foundation’s grantmaking and other work in 2025 in our Annual Report.