Moran Foundation

Founded in 1969, the Moran Foundation is an IRS accredited 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to Funding Education and Research in Pathology and Medicine. We focus on recognizing brilliant young researchers early in their careers. This recognition advances their credibility and assists them in pursuing further research grants and studies fro... m CDC, NIH, major universities and private companies. We have also produced topics of interest for podcasts from select Grand Rounds presentations by noted authorities in a variety of fields of medical specialties. From its inception, the Moran Foundation has gifted millions of dollars to such organizations as the Baylor College of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital Research Institute and the Methodist Hospital Research Institute. All of this has been internally funded without ever asking for public donations. This has been accomplished with minimal operating overhead with no payroll employees, a small office for records keeping & storage, a telephone and paying the accountants for the annual submission to the IRS. I cannot think of any other charitable organization accomplishing so much on so little. In March 2020, the COVID-19 induced market crash severely impacted our funding base and has put the Moran Foundation in danger of not onlybeing unable to carry out its mission but putting its very existence in jeopardy. Because there is no payroll, the Foundation was unable to tap the government sponsored Payroll Protection Plan funding. Operatingin a manner to maximize charitable program funding instead of payrollsand then having that approach negatively impact the ability to accessemergency funding from the Federal government and you get the verydefinition of irony. All of that brings us here to the very first public appeal for help in over 50 years of the Moran Foundations existence. At the same time, the Foundations program of supporting true research and recognizing the researchers inPathology at some of the nations most notable ...Read More