American Federation for Aging Research
Your public record reads like the patient patron of a young science, the grantmaker that has spent four decades funding the researchers who study why we age.
Peer societies
Five societies American Federation for Aging Research is read alongside.
GFMR
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
A research funder singularly focused on the biology of aging, seeding Glenn Centers and awards to extend the…
MBRF
McKnight Brain Research Foundation
An endowment devoted to one question, why memory fades with age, funding brain institutes to understand and…
LLHF
Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
A single bequest converted into a concentrated engine for California medical research
RRF
Retirement Research Foundation
A foundation given wholly to the well being of older people, funding caregiving, economic security, housing…
RC
Research Corporation
A century old philanthropy that bets early on unproven scientists and new fields, having backed more than…
Who backs AFAR
Every company American Federation for Aging Research names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026
2019 AFAR Awards Dinner Scientific Symposium sponsors. Read September 28, 2026. Symposium roundtable sponsor logos on the awards dinner page; newer annual report PDFs could not be read.
The outside view
Your public record reads like the patient patron of a young science, the grantmaker that has spent four decades funding the researchers who study why we age.
- Authority
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Their shape
The Legacy
Faithful to what was handed down.
The Legacy is devoted to continuity, carrying a tradition and an identity across generations. Its gift is stability and deep institutional memory, its challenge is making room for change.
Also reads toward The Movement and The Guild.
Strengths
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