Former-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.
California Institute of Technology, Office of Research Administration
$3,879,976
36 months
Lunar DAS: Mapping the Moon's Interior
Oct 2025
Princeton University, Department of Geosciences
$3,500,000
48 months
Mobile Earthquake Recording in Marine Areas by Independent Divers (MERMAID)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
$124,986
18 months
Microbe-virus Symbioses
Chabot Space & Science Center
$295,498
15 months
Leadership Transition Support
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics
$2,950,000
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
$580,350
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
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