Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
Our ability to take risks and make long-term and relatively large commitments often allow us to undertake challenges not accessible to many other organizations.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
$124,986
18 months
Microbe-virus Symbioses
Oct 2025
Chabot Space & Science Center
$295,498
15 months
Leadership Transition Support
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics
$2,950,000
48 months
Advancing Access, Engagement, and Learning in Quantum Education through Next-Generation PhET (Physics Education Tec…
River Partners
$740,357
24 months
Leveraging Corporate Water Stewardship Investment to Finance Ecosystem Restoration
Multiplier
$438,000
Civic Science Evaluation & Alumni Network
Wake Forest University, Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
$1,601,000
Advancing Science and Policy Approaches to Reduce Mercury and Gold Mining Impacts in the Peruvian Amazon
California Institute of Technology
$2,500,000
36 months
Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of California, San Francisco
$1,500,000
University of Southern California
University of California, Merced
$1,000,000
University of California, Riverside
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Washington
University of Chicago
$2,000,000
University of Hawaii Foundation
Cornell University
John Hopkins University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz