The phrase "a large funder of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an organization or individual that provides significant financial support to a project, initiative, or cause.
Example: "The nonprofit organization was grateful to be a large funder of the community development program."
Alternatives: "a major financial supporter of" or "a significant contributor to".
But other large funders of UC Berkeley research had to close, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Endowment for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts (NEH/NEA), the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.
Perhaps it is true that the senator was just using taxpayer-funded congressional aides to help out a friend -- and the largest funder of his 2012 re-election effort -- to obtain visas for that friend's girlfriends, maintain a contract with the Dominican Republic and try to influence an agency to allow overbilling of the government.
This week's dissolution of a bond between the nation's largest funder of breast-cancer research and one of the largest providers of women's health services suggests just how dismally that effort has failed.
To date we have raised an incredible $299 million, making Movember the largest funder of prostate cancer programs in the world.
Under a plan approved today, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH --the NIMH --theargest fuNIMH --theinationpsychiatric research--will establish a special working group to screen grant applications for studies that would exacerbate patients'ssymptoms (known as "chalargest studies) or withdraw medication (known as "drug washout" studies).
Comptroller spokesman Bob Garsson said Tuesday that federal regulations provide "a plethora of protections for consumers". Wells, the largest funder of mortgages in the nation, said it was "very satisfied" with the preliminary ruling and soon would file a motion asking the court for a final judgment in favor of the bank.
With a $37 billion annual budget, NIH is the world's largest funder of biomedical research.
Now Koonin will run a rapidly expanding research program that is already the largest funder of physical sciences in the country.
The National Institutes of Health pledged Tuesday at a private meeting of scientists who use fetal tissue that the government's largest funder of biomedical research would continue to support such work despite a conservative broadside against it.
