Eligibility and Limitations

To be eligible for Biogen Idec Foundation funding, an organization must be:

• A non-profit agency with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code.
• Serving residents of Cambridge or the Greater Boston area, San Diego or San Diego County, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

Eligible organizations must not:

• Advocate, support or practice discrimination based on race, religion, age, national origin, language, gender, sexual preference or physical limitation.
• Include the promotion of any particular religious faith as an explicit and primary goal.
• Have the nomination or election of candidates to political office as an explicit goal.
• Be government agencies, political organizations or individuals.

Grants should not cover fundraising or capital campaign activities.