Our Grants
Since inception, the Foundation has awarded $295 million in grants. Our grants database contains awards from July 1, 2017 on and is updated weekly. Comprehensive details can be found as part of the Foundation’s annual 990-PF filing.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To provide support for MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works’ efforts around diversity and inclusion, including scaling up outreach efforts at the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute, as well as building and scaling its model for public use.| Grantee | Fiscal Sponsor | Grant | Amount | Focus Area | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skillful LLC | New Venture Fund | To provide support for the Rework America Alliance. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | New York, NY | 2020 |
| The New Humanitarian | To provide support for independent journalism and coverage of humanitarian crises. | $500,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | ||
| The Greater Boston Food Bank, Inc. | To provide general operating support. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Boston, MA | 2020 | |
| Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, Inc. | To provide support to address the housing crisis. | $250,000 | Solidarity | Boston, MA | 2020 | |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | To provide support for the pandemic and disaster response. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| Refugees United Foundation USA | To provide support for the RELAY platform in 2021. | $250,000 | Solidarity | San Francisco, CA | 2020 | |
| Team Rubicon | To provide support for relief and response efforts. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Los Angeles, CA | 2020 | |
| RECAINSA | PATH | To provide general operating support. | $90,000 | Digital Health | 2020 | |
| The HOPE Program, Inc. | To provide support for workforce education. | $250,000 | Solidarity | Brooklyn, NY | 2020 | |
| Homeless Youth Alliance, Inc. | To provide support for outreach and services. | $250,000 | Solidarity | San Francisco, CA | 2020 | |
| Team4Tech Foundation | To provide support for creating opportunities for learners around the world. | $100,000 | Tech + Workforce | San Mateo, CA | 2020 | |
| Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated | To provide support for building data and mapping capabilities for MethaneSAT. | $250,000 | Climate + Data | New York, NY | 2020 | |
| Justice in Motion, Inc. | To provide general operating support. | $100,000 | Solidarity | Brooklyn, NY | 2020 | |
| World Resources Institute | To provide support for the ongoing development of the Data Lab Initiative. | $500,000 | Climate + Data | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| Conservation International Foundation | To provide support for work on data-driven conservation. | $500,000 | Climate + Data | Arlington, VA | 2020 | |
| Entrepreneurship for All, Inc. | To provide support for programming for entrepreneurship skilling and education. | $100,000 | Tech + Workforce | Lowell, MA | 2020 | |
| Common Market Philadelphia, Inc. | To provide general operating support. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Philadelphia, PA | 2020 | |
| HEAL Initiative | University of California San Francisco Foundation | To provide support for growth of the HEAL Initiative. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Oakland, CA | 2020 |
| First Star, Inc. | To provide support for the STEAM Academy. | $50,000 | Tech + Workforce | Los Angeles, CA | 2020 | |
| The Trinity Challenge | Cambridge in America | To provide general operating support. | $1,210,000 | Digital Health | 2020 | |
| Code.org | To provide support for the CodeBytes project. | $100,000 | Tech + Workforce | Seattle, WA | 2020 | |
| Khushi Baby, Inc. | To provide support for the building of data systems for improved health outcomes. | $100,000 | Digital Health | Folsom, CA | 2020 | |
| Destination: Home SV | To provide support for the salary and benefits of a Research and Evaluation Specialist, a new position embedded within the County of Santa Clara’s Office of Supportive Housing. | $100,000 | Solidarity | San Jose, CA | 2020 | |
| University of California, San Francisco | To provide support for the Nexus Program. | $150,000 | Tech for Good | San Francisco, CA | 2020 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works’ efforts around diversity and inclusion, including scaling up outreach efforts at the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute, as well as building and scaling its model for public use. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| Education Design Lab | To provide support for the Community College Growth Engine Fund. | $500,000 | Tech + Workforce | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| Global Digital Health Network | To provide support for technical leadership, programming, the annual forum, and operations. | $200,000 | Digital Health | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| reWerk, Inc. | Concrete Rose Community Foundation | To provide support for personnel and technology to expand redistribution of physical inventory to vulnerable communities. | $50,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | |
| Himalayan Cataract Project, Inc. | To provide support for driving quality improvements in cataract surgical services through the testing, monitoring, and application of standardized cataract-related data. | $500,000 | Digital Health | Waterbury, VT | 2020 | |
| Girls Incorporated | To provide support for the organization’s mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, through direct service and advocacy. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | New York, NY | 2020 | |
| AnnieCannons, Inc. | To provide support for upskilling survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence with digital tools and jobs. | $100,000 | Tech + Workforce | Walnut, CA | 2020 | |
| The World Economic Forum | NPT Transatlantic | To provide support for the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution AI Program and the launch of the Global AI Action Alliance. | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | 2020 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the Schwarzman College of Computing Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing Scholars Program. | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| Share Trust, Inc. | To provide support for building a digital platform for a network of local Community Based Organizations and their Affiliates. | $100,000 | Digital Health | Dover, MA | 2020 | |
| AI4ALL | To provide support for the organization’s mission to increase diversity and inclusion in AI education, research, development, and policy. | $500,000 | Tech + Workforce | Oakland, CA | 2020 | |
| Stanford University | To provide support for Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s priority areas. | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Stanford, CA | 2020 | |
| Equality Fund | To provide support for building a foreign development fund focused on tech and gender equity. | $100,000 | Solidarity | Ottawa | 2020 | |
| Act Now Coalition | To provide support for real time, actionable intelligence about COVID-19 presence and spread across communities in the US. | $200,000 | Solidarity | Walnut, CA | 2020 | |
| Babson College | To provide support for the University of Global Health Equity Global Health Entrepreneurship Exchange. | $100,000 | Digital Health | Babson Park, MA | 2020 | |
| Child’s Play | To provide support for tech and video games for children in long-term inpatient care. | $150,000 | Tech for Good | Redmond, WA | 2020 | |
| Last Mile Education Fund | Digital Harbor Foundation, Inc. | To provide support for collegiate opportunities for undergraduate tech and engineering students. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | Baltimore, MD | 2020 |
| The Hidden Genius Project | To provide general operating support. | $300,000 | Tech + Workforce | Oakland, CA | 2020 | |
| WattTime Corporation | To provide support for work on emmissionality, a technique to multiply the impact of renewable energy. | $250,000 | Climate + Data | Oakland, CA | 2020 | |
| Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford | Americans for Oxford, Inc. | To provide support for priority areas at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | 2020 | |
| The Nocturnists | Social Good Fund | To provide support for organizational capacity building as well as the “Stories from a Pandemic, Part 2” program. | $100,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | |
| Tech Matters | Beneficent Technology, Inc. | To provide support for the Terraso Platform, the technology component of the 1,000 Landscapes Initiative. | $500,000 | Climate + Data | 2020 | |
| Girls Who Code, Inc. | To provide support for the organization’s mission to close the gender gap in technology. | $200,000 | Tech + Workforce | New York, NY | 2020 | |
| AkiraChix | King Baudouin Foundation United States | To provide support for tech training and mentorship to young women and girls. | $150,000 | Tech + Workforce | 2020 | |
| Instituto Protea | Brazil Foundation | To provide support for the early diagnosis of breast cancer using an AI driven approach. | $150,000 | Digital Health | Jd Paulistano | 2020 |
| The Tech Interactive | To provide support for the Tech Laureate Program. | $200,000 | Tech + Workforce | San Jose, CA | 2020 | |
| Partners in Development, Inc. | To provide support for the Bridging the Digital Divide Program in rural Mississippi. | $200,000 | Tech for Good | Ipswich, MA | 2020 | |
| Open Source Medical Supplies | Resolve, Inc. | To provide support for scaling manufacturing capacity to address COVID-19 supply needs. | $250,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | |
| HomeStart, Inc. | To provide support for scaling eviction prevention efforts in Massachusetts. | $500,000 | Solidarity | Boston, MA | 2020 | |
| Stanford University | To provide support for Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s data initiatives on COVID-19, Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 (CAIAC). | $350,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Stanford, CA | 2020 | |
| Yee Ha’ólníi Doo | Rural Utah Project Education Fund | To provide support for the Navajo & Hopi Families Covid Relief Fund. | $100,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | |
| The COVID Tracking Project | The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC | To provide support for the COVID Tracker and the COVID Racial Data Tracker. | $150,000 | Solidarity | 2020 | |
| Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute, Inc. | To provide support for the Hopi Covid Response. | $100,000 | Solidarity | Kykotsmovi, AZ | 2020 | |
| Open Data Institute | To provide support for Institutions for Trustworthy Data Access. | $250,000 | Emergent AI + Society | London EC2A 4JE | 2020 | |
| University of California, San Francisco | To provide support for the Childhood Cognitive Development Program. | $275,000 | Neuroscience | San Francisco, CA | 2020 | |
| The Food Project | To provide support for the Lynn Food Security Task Force. | $140,000 | Solidarity | Lincoln, MA | 2020 | |
| GreenRoots, Inc. | To provide support for the Chelsea Covid Response. | $75,000 | Solidarity | Chelsea, MA | 2020 | |
| COVID Tech Connect | The Giving Back Fund, Inc. | To provide support for COVID Tech Connect. | $50,000 | Emergent AI + Society | 2020 | |
| The UMass Memorial Foundation, Inc. | To provide support for Telemedicine for Pediatric ICU and other Emergency Services within UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. | $120,600 | Solidarity | Shrewsbury, MA | 2020 | |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | To provide support for the COVID-19 Emergency Medical Response. | $250,000 | Solidarity | Boston, MA | 2020 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research for research into Point of Care Rapid COVID-19 Testing based on CRISPR technology. | $300,000 | Solidarity | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide discretionary support for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research Fund ($100,000) and to provide research funding for the study of the science of punishment ($750,000). | $850,000 | Neuroscience | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| Community Care Cooperative, Inc. | To provide capacity building support for the expansion of telehealth services in community health centers. | $500,000 | Digital Health | Boston, MA | 2020 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the MIT Solve 2020 AI for Humanity Prize and operational/AI support. | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| Data & Society Research Institute | To provide support for the Disinformation Lab Project, countering disinformation around the 2020 census. | $100,000 | Emergent AI + Society | New York, NY | 2020 | |
| Plant-for-the-Planet U.S. | To provide support for the Plant-for-the-Planet App. | $200,000 | Climate + Data | Santa Fe Springs, CA | 2020 | |
| Public Interest Technology University Network | New Venture Fund | To provide support for funding and innovation in public interest technologies. | $500,000 | Tech + Workforce | Washington, DC | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the AI Cures Fund at J-Clinic and to support work related to machine learning for antiviral screening. | $210,000 | Digital Health | Cambridge, MA | 2020 | |
| World Resources Institute | To provide support for the Data Lab and Resource Watch: Actionable Data for a Sustainable Future Project. | $250,000 | Climate + Data | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| Asia eHealth Information Network | PATH | To provide support for the AeHIN Secretariat to lead ICT workshops, serve as a learning resource for the South Asian Digital Health Community and regional peer-learning networks ($75,000), and for the Annual Conference ($15,000). | $90,000 | Digital Health | 2020 | |
| African Center for Economic Transformation | To provide conference sponsorship support for the African Transformation Forum 2020. | $100,000 | Digital Health | Washington, DC | 2020 | |
| The Sophia School Bus | ICOG Labs Software Consultancy | To provide support for the Anyone Can Code Project. | $200,000 | Tech + Workforce | 2019 | |
| Chapman University | To provide support for the work of the Cognitive Diversity Presidential Fellow and cognitive diversity graduate students. | $75,000 | Neuroscience | Orange, CA | 2019 | |
| Boston University | To provide support for TechTogether Boston 2020. | $10,000 | Tech + Workforce | Boston, MA | 2019 | |
| United Nations Foundation | To provide support for training domestic and international journalists through the Global Bureau Program. | $200,000 | Tech for Good | Washington, DC | 2019 | |
| Global Digital Health Network | To provide general operating support, including the Global Digital Health Forum. | $150,000 | Digital Health | Washington, DC | 2019 | |
| RefugePoint | To provide support for work on creating technology solutions that support and uplift the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. | $200,000 | Tech for Good | Cambridge, MA | 2019 | |
| Burundi Friends International | To provide support for the creation of IT centers for STEM education in Burundi. | $125,000 | Tech + Workforce | San Diego, CA | 2019 | |
| Girls Incorporated | To provide support for the preparation of girls for higher education in STEM fields. | $150,000 | Tech + Workforce | New York, NY | 2019 | |
| The Tech Interactive | To provide support for the Tech Laureate Program. | $200,000 | Tech for Good | San Jose, CA | 2019 | |
| University of California, San Francisco | To provide support for the Childhood Cognitive Control Program. | $225,000 | Neuroscience | San Francisco, CA | 2019 | |
| Himalayan Cataract Project, Inc. | To provide support for Phase II of the Data Standard Development Project. | $125,000 | Digital Health | Waterbury, VT | 2019 | |
| Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation | To provide support for the Renovating and Reimagining the Frankford Library Project. | $250,000 | Tech for Good | Philadelphia, PA | 2019 | |
| Public Interest Technology University Network | New Venture Fund | To provide support for the PIT-UN small grants fund. | $500,000 | Tech + Workforce | Washington, DC | 2019 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | To provide support for the four programs focused on developing talent: Connections for Women, Summer Research for Women in Mathematics, Summer Graduate Schools, and the Mathical Book Prize. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | Berkeley, CA | 2019 | |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health | To provide support for the Philani MOVIE Breastfeeding Study. | $100,000 | Digital Health | Stanford, CA | 2018 | |
| North Valley Community Foundation | To support fire relief efforts for the Campfire Fund ($75,000) and the Butte County Office of Education’s Schools Fire Relief Fund ($25,000). | $100,000 | Solidarity | Chico, CA | 2018 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the MIT Solve Artificial Intelligence for the Betterment of Humanity Prize ($300,000) and general operating support ($200,000). | $500,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Cambridge, MA | 2018 | |
| Co-Impact | New Venture Fund | To provide general operating support ($150,000) and to provide support for Project ECHO to engage a data architect to design the data infrastructure for ECHO digital ($100,000). | $250,000 | Emergent AI + Society | 2018 | |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | To provide support for NOVA’s AI for Social Good publishing deliverables. | $100,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Boston, MA | 2018 | |
| Wilton Park Executive Agency | To provide support for the 2018 AI and Global Health Event. | $25,000 | Digital Health | Steyning | 2018 | |
| Laudato Si Challenge, Inc. | To provide general operating support ($50,000) and for the Laudato Si Challenge Prize ($50,000). | $100,000 | Tech for Good | Washington, DC | 2018 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the MIT Solve Prize for Artificial Intelligence to the best Solver teams whose solutions use artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning. | $230,000 | Emergent AI + Society | Cambridge, MA | 2018 | |
| Himalayan Cataract Project, Inc. | To provide support for the development of a data standard for global cataract surgery services. | $250,000 | Digital Health | Waterbury, VT | 2018 | |
| African Alliance | PATH | To provide support for Digital Square’s incubation of the African Alliance for Digital Health Networks ($50,000) and for the Digital Health Applied Leadership Program ($150,000). | $200,000 | Digital Health | 2018 | |
| University of California, Berkeley Foundation | To provide support for the Simons Institute’s Theory of Computing Programs 2018-19. | $250,000 | Tech + Workforce | Berkeley, CA | 2018 | |
| University of California, San Francisco | To provide support for the launch of the Dyslexia Program. | $225,000 | Neuroscience | San Francisco, CA | 2018 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide expendable support for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. | $10,000,000 | Neuroscience | Cambridge, MA | 2017 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To provide support for the McGovern Entrepreneurship Award at MIT Sloan School of Management. | $5,500 | Legacy | Cambridge, MA | 2017 | |
| Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation | To provide support for “Bridging Philadelphia’s Digital Divide.” | $100,000 | Tech for Good | Philadelphia, PA | 2017 |