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.
Pew Charitable Trusts
$3,500,000
38 months
Impact Funders Forum
Nov 2025
Experiment Foundation
$467,000
18 months
Science Field Building Through Microgrants
Morgridge Institute for Research
$2,599,750
48 months
Quantum Super-Resolution Microscopy
Oct 2025
Las Cumbres Observatory
$3,772,168
24 months
Las Cumbres Observatory SOPHIA Camera Upgrade
CxT Discovery
$2,023,000
36 months
The Molecular Visualization Initiative (MOVIN)
Afterschool Alliance
$990,289
Afterschool and Summer STEM Learning Matters
California Native Plant Society
$767,700
Biodiversity in Urban Gardens Pilot Project
Arizona State University Foundation
$1,680,005
Scaling and Sustaining Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science
Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory
$3,225,329
Novel Technology to Enable X-Ray Observations of Black Holes from Space
University of California, San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
$1,700,750
Imaging Structured Hydration Shells using Quantum Enhanced Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy
University of Minnesota, School of Physics & Astronomy
$1,000,000
Macroscale Optical Levitation Platform
University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
$2,681,654
Increasing the Use of Global Data Visualizations in Public Settings
San Diego State University Research Foundation
$1,500,000
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)
$2,500,000
NewsHour Science Programming
California Institute of Technology, Office of Research Administration
$3,879,976
Lunar DAS: Mapping the Moon's Interior
Princeton University, Department of Geosciences
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
Microbe-virus Symbioses
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…
Multiplier
$438,000
Civic Science Evaluation & Alumni Network
California Institute of Technology
University of California, San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of California, Merced
University of California, Riverside
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