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.
Las Cumbres Observatory
$1,213,014
36 months
Las Cumbres Educational Programming and Technical Upgrades
Jul 2021
Marine Biological Laboratory
$2,398,677
38 months
Culturing and Rearing Resources for Aquatic Symbioses
Jun 2021
Activation Energy
$945,140
24 months
Activating Science Invention and Entrepreneurship for Society
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Physics
$1,096,058
48 months
Investigating Spatially Resolved Electrical Transport in Strange Metals
Rutgers University, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
$212,150
16 months
Science Policy Fellowship Program in the New Jersey Capitol
Trust for Conservation Innovation
$1,842,135
12 months
FieldKit Marine
May 2021
Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally
$200,000
Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL)
AstronetX PBC
$117,544
Lunar Surface Imager for Exoplanet Science Investigation
Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory
$6,860,257
Enabling the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope: Towards Movies of Black Holes
Ohio State University, Office of Sponsored Programs
$1,500,000
60 months
All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
New Venture Fund
$5,000,000
Bristol Bay Victory Fund
University of California, Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy
$773,124
Novel terahertz spectrometer for investigations of emergent quantum states in strongly correlated materials.
Apr 2021
University of California, Los Angeles California NanoSystems Institute
$112,500
US Quantum Biology Center
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
$600,000
Strengthening the Integrity of Science
Iepé - Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indigena
$800,000
Long-term Conservation Through Improving Consolidation of Protected Areas in Northern Pará
Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia (Institute of Man and Environment in the Amazon)
18 months
World Wildlife Fund Inc.
$2,299,933
Public Finance for Sustainable Agriculture Production in South America
Mar 2021
Purpose Foundation
$997,768
Mapping "Essential Life Support Areas"
International Senior Lawyers Project
$190,000
Infrastructure Program: Sector Context and Transactions
TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation
$100,000
3 months
Growing The Table
Society for Science
$866,000
International Science and Engineering Fair
California Institute of Technology, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
$1,561,165
Millimeter-wave Multiplexing Technology for Probing the Birth of the Universe--Phase II
Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
$779,460
Substrate-on-Demand Program: Phase Two
Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association
$247,907
Scientific Panel for the Amazon
Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (Brazilian Biodiversity Fund)
$150,000
Institutional Durability and Strengthening for FunBio in Support of Conservation Funding in Brazil
Feb 2021
Brunswick Group
$3,000,000
29 months
Downstream Actor Engagement
$9,149,513
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
$3,754,567
Stockholm Environment Institute
$5,003,000
Transforming Global Supply Chain Transparency
Leading Edge Productions
The Resistance Project
University of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology
$547,031
32 months
Advancing Symbiosis Theory
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
Jan 2021
Stanford University, Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research
$552,121
Acquisition of an Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (AC-STEM)
$1,750,000
Transboundary Protection and Management of the Bering and Chukchi Seas
Dec 2020
Reed College, Dean of Faculty Office
$344,588
Research Experience to Broaden Participation in Physical Science
McGill University, McGill Space Institute, Faculty of Science
$3,623,098
CHIME Outriggers for Localization of Fast Radio Bursts
Nov 2020
Wildlife Conservation Society
67 months
Conservation of the Greater Madidi Legacy Landscape
Legacy Landscapes Fund Foundation
50 months
Legacy Landscapes Fund
World Economic Forum
$2,000,000
Nature Action Agenda
Broad Institute Inc.
$1,961,132
15 months
Operation Outbreak Game Enhancements
Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics
$700,000
Improved Mirror Coatings for Gravitational Wave Detection
University of St Andrews, School of Biology
$579,971
Where the Wild Things Are: Community-Driven Analysis of Wildlife Responses to the COVID-19 Global Lockdown
University of California, Berkeley Sponsored Projects Office
$1,526,771
FUEGO Payload and Airborne Fire Mapping
Community Initiatives
$500,400
Maker Camp Network Expansion
Envision Excellence in STEM Education
$158,750
Measure STEM
Conservation International
$350,000
Wildlife Insights: Enhancing the Global Biodiversity Data Platform
Johns Hopkins University Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science
$1,125,000
SciServer: Serving Science Data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association
$500,506
Improved Groundfish Accountability and Durable Fishery Conservation Leadership
Ocean Conservancy, Inc.
Ecosystem-Based Conservation Strategies
Johns Hopkins University, Center for Health Security
$138,936
COVID-19 Testing and Testing Services Website
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
Global Commons Alliance – Science Based Targets
Forever Costa Rica Association
GENTE: Building Resilient Livelihoods in Costa Rica through Blue and Green Economy
University of Washington, Human Centered Design and Engineering Department
Machines Learning: Modular Low-Cost Tools for Scientific Exploration
$2,319,706
Sustaining Wild Salmon Ecosystem Conservation in Alaska – Alaska Venture Fund
Conservation X Labs
$2,414,600
Accelerating Technology Solutions for Conservation
Windward Fund
$2,275,000
DEI Capacity Building
$2,401,000
Solutions for Monitoring of Remote, Intact Landscapes
Oct 2020
Clark University, Clark Labs
$2,085,534
22 months
Automated Mapping of Coastal Habitat Cover and Land-Use Change
$2,073,000
Enabling Science-Based Adaptive Management of Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Beyond
Oceana Canada
Sustainable Fisheries
Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering
$550,000
Microscopy for All
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc.
$750,000
14 months
Science-based Tools for Climate Resilience in Amazonian Protected Areas
The Nature Conservancy
$887,000
Research and Testing Strategies for Climate Ready Fisheries.
University of California, San Francisco, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research
$246,125
10 months
Data and Technology to Support Diagnostic Excellence: Investigating Key Opportunities
Rare
Scaling Adoption of Behavior-Centered Design for the Environment
MakeWay Foundation
$2,274,300
Inuit-Led Habitat Protection in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Ocean
MakeWay Charitable Society
$614,863
British Columbia Habitat Protection
University of California, Santa Cruz, Office of Sponsored Projects
$980,196
Recharge Net Metering
Field Museum
$744,000
Consolidating Andean Amazon Mosaics Through Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystem Connectivity
Arizona State University, Office for Research and Sponsored Projects Administration
$599,899
Scaling Citizen Science Through Libraries
$500,000
Stemming IUU Fishing in the Galapagos
Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment
$548,509
Understanding and Reducing Catastrophic Wildfire Risk in California’s Zombie Forests
Berkeley Lab Foundation
Ecosystem Diversity and Wildfires
Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Inc.
Implementing Accountability Measures and Securing Durable Fishery Conservation Leadership
National Academy of Sciences
$869,973
New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Phase II
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
$982,625
Second Phase of the QuantEmX Scientist Exchange Program
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
$789,746
FieldScope Platform Development
The Graduate Center Foundation
$160,000
Making Physics Theory Accessible Online
URU The Right to Be
Our Humanity
Washington University in St. Louis, Office of Sponsored Research Services
$335,000
Medicine in Black and White
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
$304,000
Biomarker and Genomic Testing to Inform Personalized Cancer Diagnosis
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research and Sponsored Programs
$325,037
Measuring Modality-Specific Interval Colorectal Cancer Rates Across Healthcare Settings
University of California, San Diego Department of Biomedical Informatics
$499,500
Longitudinal Analysis of Codes to Identify Diagnostic Opportunities
Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing
$498,229
A Patient-Reported Measure of Diagnostic Excellence
University of Utah, Division of Epidemiology
$496,398
Measuring and Improving Diagnostic Excellence in Pneumonia
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
$499,950
Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary Care
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
$499,371
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Lung Cancer Screening
Stanford University, Research Management Group
$493,584
Missed Outpatient Diagnosis of Incident Heart Failure
iBiology
$494,438
Building a Network for Science Film Distribution and Corresponding Public Engagement
WGBH Educational Foundation
$349,996
NOVA Neutrinos and Universe Programming
China Dialogue Trust
$1,054,385
Reporting on China’s Trade Impact on South America’s Forests and the World’s Oceans
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)
Finding Your Roots
Oceans North
$675,000
The Leapfrog Group
$1,229,017
A National Program to Publicly Report and Recognize Diagnostic Excellence in Hospitals and Health Systems
Harvard University, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
$684,750
Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
$1,104,348
40 months
SAGE Path: Accelerating Girls’ Engagement in STEM at the National Laboratories
University of Oxford, Research Services
$87,661
Elucidating How Specialized Proteins Help Marine Microbes Extract Nutrients From Seawater
Arizona State University Foundation
$239,128
1 month
Matroyshka Dolls: Investigating How Microbes Transition to Become Permanent Features Inside the Cells of Other Orga…
Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
$83,249
8 months
COVID-19: The Wellbeing of Pregnant Individuals
University of California, Davis Health System
$28,868
Vital Directions for Health and Health Care 2.0
Sep 2020
World Resources Institute
$2,300,000
Global Forest Watch Pro III
$2,435,226
National Academy of Medicine Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence
$1,099,314
China and the CBD COP
California Institute of Technology, Division of Engineering and Applied Science
$1,109,573
Vertical-Axis Wind Technology in Rural Alaska
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
$1,071,000
Diagnostic Error: Awareness and Engagement Campaign
Stanford University, Natural Capital Project
$660,000
Integrated Freshwater Management for Amazonian Ecosystem Resilience
San Diego Zoo Global
$598,922
Decentralized Biodiversity and Emergent Disease Monitoring
Amazon Conservation Association
$1,042,769
Resources Legacy Fund
Bay Area Conservation Small Grants Program
STEM Next Opportunity Fund
$1,124,080
Million Girls Moonshot
$250,000
Nature Based Solutions and Climate Resilience
Aug 2020
Dalhousie University, Financial Services
$198,889
$1,225,000
19 months
Leveraging UNFCCC COP26 to Accelerate Action on Sustainable Supply Chains
$7,200,000
Habitat Protection and Science-Based Fisheries Management in the U.S. Bering and Chukchi Seas
Nature Canada
$400,000
Securing Canada’s Marine Conservation Targets
PROFONANPE - Fondo de Promoción de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas del Perú
Innovative Funding for Protected Areas in Peru
Environmental Justice Foundation
Reducing IUU-Caught Seafood in Chinese, Japanese and US Supply Chains
$1,000,000
Landscape-scale and Collaborative Conservation in the Amazon Wetland Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia
$591,470
Reducing GHG Emissions in Food and Soft Commodity Production
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Research Management and Transfer Department
$1,899,075
Deciphering the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell
Harvard University, Office of Sponsored Programs
$649,987
University of California, Los Angeles Office of Contract and Grant Administration
$505,010
University of California, Santa Barbara Earth Research Institute
$290,000
26 months
Agencia Estatal Del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
$337,500
California Institute of Technology, Office of Foundation Relations
$920,000
Université Paris-Saclay, Unité Écologie, Systématique et Évolution
$625,000
University of California, San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
$859,625
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemistry
$960,000
University of Washington, Office of Sponsored Programs
$696,898
Massachusetts General Hospital
$170,000
Charles University, Faculty of Science
$424,125
University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences
$509,679
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Project Management Office
$379,125
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation
$667,161
Reporting of Health Technology Issues
Jul 2020
Meridian Institute
30 months
True Cost Accounting Accelerator
Purdue University, Sponsored Program Services
Jacqueline Linnes Moore Inventor Fellow
University of Chicago, Department of Medicine
Joshua Weinstein Moore Inventor Fellow
Boubacar Kanté Moore Inventor Fellow
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
James Pikul Moore Inventor Fellow
State University of New York (Research Foundation)
Eszter Boros Moore Inventor Fellow
$1,981,800
National Infrastructure Planning in Peru
Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (Group for the Analysis of Development)
$555,000
ClimateWorks Foundation
$300,000
Climate and Land Use Alliance
University of California, Los Angeles Department of Electrical Engineering
$2,400,000
Room Temperature THz Receiver for Astronomy
20 months
Infrastructure in Pará, Brazil
Climate Policy Initiative
$1,228,000
$1,391,250
35 months
Zonehaven Wildfire Platform
NumFOCUS, Inc.
$330,500
Open Software for All
California Academy of Sciences
$1,200,000
iNaturalist -- Technical Enhancements
Fund for Shared Insight: Phase III
Milken Institute
$325,080
Philanthropic Coordination Platform
Jun 2020
Forest Ethics
$1,050,000
Sustainable Shipping
Ecotrust Canada
Sustainable Fisheries in British Columbia
University of California, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
$1,730,000
The Next Decade of Scientific Python
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Jeffrey Heer Investigator Award: Software Grant Vega & Altair
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
$150,233
Lessons from Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships
Chabot Space & Science Center
$1,596,299
Science Center Experience: Implementation Phase II
Oceana, Inc.
$177,000
Marine Insurance and IUU Fishing – Practical Tools for Risk Avoidance
$296,410
Engaging Investors on Assurance of Non-financial Information
Rainforest Expeditions
Citizen Science for Conservation
Transparencia Internacional Brasil
Audit Accountability for Infrastructure in the Amazon
Water Table Membership
Supporting Local Constituencies to Secure Protections for U.S. Arctic Ocean Ecosystems
Aleut Community of St. Paul Island
$383,887
Bering Sea Fishermen's Association
$626,741
Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering
$1,005,400
Supplying the Quantum Materials Community with Record-Mobility Gallium Arsenide Quantum Wells
7 months
Support for the Science Philanthropy Alliance's 2020 Activities
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
$269,475
Building Shared Legal Infrastructure for Computational Medicine: Legal Process Accelerator for Machine Learning Res…
San Diego Natural History Museum
$122,015
Urban Canyonlands Project Planning
$275,000
National Science Policy Network
Inter-American Dialogue
$251,000
Infrastructure Trends in the Amazon
University of California, Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
$56,250
The Second Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell II Research Competition
May 2020
University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer For Planetary Materials
Princeton University, Department of Physics
$1,420,000
M. Zahid Hasan Experimental Investigator Award
$1,600,000
Tony Heinz Experimental Investigator Award
Nai-Phuan Ong Experimental Investigator Award
Ali Yazdani Experimental Investigator Award
Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ming Yi Experimental Investigator Award
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics
Daniel Dessau Experimental Investigator Award
Stanford University, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
David Goldhaber-Gordon Experimental Investigator Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics
Peter Abbamonte Experimental Investigator Award
Cornell University, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
Séamus Davis Experimental Investigator Award
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Experimental Investigator Award
Nuh Gedik Experimental Investigator Award
Eva Andrei Experimental Investigator Award
Vidya Madhavan Experimental Investigator Award
Andrea Franchini Young Experimental Investigator Award
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Peter Armitage Experimental Investigator Award
Columbia University, Department of Physics
Dmitri Basov Experimental Investigator Award
Collin Broholm Experimental Investigator Award
University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics
Alessandra Lanzara Experimental Investigator Award
Joseph Orenstein Experimental Investigator Award
Harvard University, Department of Physics
Amir Yacoby Experimental Investigator Award
44 months
Miniature Laser Phase Plate for Next Generation Cryo-Electron Microscopy
$12,000,000
Blue Nature Alliance
XPRIZE Foundation Inc.
$3,201,250
Wildfire XPRIZE
Consolidation of Conservation Mosaics in Colombia and Ecuador
Inuit Circumpolar Council Foundation
$226,201
Inuit Engagement in Arctic Shipping and Marine Conservation
Sustainable Fisheries and Habitat Protection in British Columbia
SETI Institute
$51,378
SETI Research Experience for Undergraduates
Exploratorium
$1,801,256
Plant Exhibit Development
American Heart Association
9 months
COVID-19 CVD Registry: A Novel Coronavirus Registry, Powered by Get With The Guidelines
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network
$1,100,000
Oceans Collaborative
$500,314
Decision Modeling to Inform Timely Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 2020
Society of Critical Care Medicine
$499,185
Discovery Critical Care Research Network: Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study [VIRUS]: COVID-1…
Bates College, Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance
New Tools for Advancing Model Systems in Aquatic Symbiosis
Macquarie University, Office of Advancement
$749,000
42 months
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Service Partenariat et Valorisation
$300,160
University of California, San Diego Office of Contract and Grant Administration
$850,000
Leiden University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biology
$1,225,539
University of New South Wales, Division of Philanthropy
$325,000
$532,400
Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems
$299,971
University of Hawai‘i, Office of Research Services
$305,094
San Diego State University Research Foundation
$299,961
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
$299,981
University of Florida, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science
$298,750
University of Nottingham, School of Biosciences
$301,250
Edinburgh Napier University, Research and Innovation Office
$381,688
New York University, Office of Sponsored Programs
$563,365
Rapid Response Data Discovery for COVID-19 Clinical Consultations
University of Connecticut
$528,587
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Authority for Research and Development
$500,096
University of Oregon, Sponsored Projects Services
University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences
$599,500
Northeastern University, Research Enterprise Services
$299,750
Stanford University, Office of Sponsored Research
$502,543
$299,995
$486,816
University of Liverpool, Research Support Office
$315,682
University of California, Davis Office of Research Sponsored Programs
Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
$499,999
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Darrin Fresh Water Institute
$299,216
University of Melbourne, Research Grants
$537,500
California Institute of Technology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences
$300,252
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sponsored Research Office
$299,999
University of Toronto
$500,250
University of Queensland, Office of Sponsored Research
University of California, San Francisco Office of Sponsored Research
$524,999
$830,747
University of California, Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science
University of Konstanz, Division of Financial Affairs
$293,063
Global Fishing Watch
$461,000
Reducing Illegal Fishing in East and West Africa
Optical Fiber Seismic Networks
InterAcademy Partnership for Policy
$799,022
Combatting Predatory Journals and Conferences
Mar 2020
Fundación Natura (Nature Foundation)
$115,000
Strengthening and Expanding the Latin American Wildlife Management Community.
Rainforest Alliance
Accountability Framework Initiative Phase II
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
$301,500
Planetary Health Fellowship
Igiugig Village
Vertical-Axis Wind Technology and a Sustainable Future in Rural Alaska
$1,538,462
FieldKit Phase II
University of California, San Diego Department of Physics
$1,040,753
72 months
Advancing understanding of galaxy evolution through Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics
Feb 2020
University of California, Los Angeles Department of Physics and Astronomy
$650,940
Advancing Understanding of Dark Matter and Dark Energy through Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics
$1,261,131
Measuring Cosmic Distances with LIGO
University of Hawai‘i, Institute for Astronomy
$730,048
Advancing Exoplanets Research through Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics
University of Konstanz
$1,912,500
Lutz Becks Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Oregon, Eugene, Institute of Neuroscience
$2,025,000
Judith Eisen Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry
$1,800,625
Ross Waller Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Rachel Whitaker Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
ETH Zurich Foundation
Roman Stocker Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology
Yixian Zheng Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology
$1,800,000
Mohamed Donia Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Orkun Soyer Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of British Columbia, Botany Department
Patrick Keeling Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Meghan Duffy Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of California, Berkeley California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Sabeeha Merchant Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
$1,500,724
Jörn Piel Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology
Michael Kühl Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
Forest Rohwer Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Pete Girguis Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Award
Temple University, Department of Chemistry
Yale University, Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine School of Engineering
University of California, Davis Department of Chemistry
Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Applied Physical Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy
$278,000
Fostering Scientific Exchange Among Junior Researchers in Quantum Materials
Jan 2020
$1,514,704
PolyEDM: A Next Generation Electron EDM Search in Laser-Cooled and Trapped Polyatomic Molecules
Yale University, Department of Physics
$131,135
The ACME Electric Dipole Moment Experiment
$1,275,100
Trapped Ions for Electric Dipole Moment Measurements
York University, Office of Research Services
$667,500
EDM-cubed: an electron Electric Dipole Moment Measurement using Molecules in a Matrix
Imperial College London, Department of Physics
$777,521
Trapped Ultracold Molecules for Measuring the Electron Electric Dipole Moment
Jupiter Intelligence
$1,002,403
Operational Wildfire Risk and Intelligence Support System
Nov 2019
Improving Capacity to Analyze Fire Events on the Agricultural Frontier, Bolivia
Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (Friends of Nature Foundation)
$2,350,000
25 months
Colorado River Sustainability Campaign
Eastern Tropical Pacific Conservation and Sustainability
$1,784,000
Advancing Actions on Deforestation and Nature-Based Solutions through the Science-Based Targets Initiative and Corp…
Science-Based Targets for Water
CDP North America
Corporate Water Risk
Global Center on Adaptation
$1,550,000
Global Commission on Adaptation's Water Action Track
$959,470
Technology Solutions and Climate-Proofing for Large-scale Intact Ecosystems
$795,000
Annual Reviews
Knowable Magazine
Wild Me
$1,588,058
Wildbooks Platform Development
Princeton University, Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics
Amit Singer Investigator Award: Software Grant ASPIRE
University of California, Berkeley Department of Astronomy
Joshua Bloom Investigator Award: Software Grant SkyPortal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Matthew Turk Investigator Award: Software Grant yt
ECRI Institute
$1,013,339
Advancing the Sustainability and Visibility of the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety
Natural Capital-Based Planning
Aliança da Terra
Improved Land Management to Address Increased Risk of Amazonian Fires
Operation Outbreak (O2)
$6,000,000
ACHIP: Accelerator-on-a-Chip
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
$999,687
Sepsis on FHIR: Shared Data Infrastructure to Improve Sepsis Diagnosis
$37,528,007
90 months
Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators
University of California, Irvine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
$326,195
Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Wellcome Sanger Institute
$5,107,688
Genome Resources for Aquatic Symbiosis Researchers
Diagnostic Excellence Where It Counts: An Ecosystem for Machine Learning Diagnostics in Contra Costa County Health …
University of California, Santa Barbara Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Breaking Down Barriers at the Physics/Biology Interface
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
$188,000
Resource and Platform Development for Citizen Science
Digital Promise Global
$1,014,000
Scaling STEM-Maker Networks II
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
$1,598,251
Public Lab
Smithsonian Institution (Office of the Comptroller)
$828,300
Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Research Guide Development
Yale University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
$1,700,000
Judy Cha Materials Synthesis Investigator
Pennsylvania State University, Office of Sponsored Programs
Cui-Zu Chang Materials Synthesis Investigator
Princeton University, Department of Chemistry
Leslie Schoop Materials Synthesis Investigator
Chang-Beom Eom Materials Synthesis Investigator
Robert Cava Materials Synthesis Investigator
James Analytis Materials Synthesis Investigator
Ian Fisher Materials Synthesis Investigator
University of Tennessee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
David Mandrus Materials Synthesis Investigator
Joseph Checkelsky Materials Synthesis Investigator
University of Maryland, Department of Physics
Johnpierre Paglione Materials Synthesis Investigator
$1,530,000
Harold Hwang Materials Synthesis Investigator
Cornell University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Darrell Schlom Materials Synthesis Investigator
$1,510,000
Ivan Bozovic Materials Synthesis Investigator
$478,250
23 months
Strengthening Forest and Land Use Monitoring in the Paraguayan Chaco
Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
$464,000
Diagnostic Excellence Index for Pulmonary Embolism
University of Washington, Department of Family Medicine
$500,554
Lung Cancer Diagnosis Measurement Instrument
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Medicine
$520,162
Clinical Quality Measure to Improve Diagnosis of Cancer: the Safer Dx Cancer e-measure
University of Michigan Medical School
$441,711
Clinical Quality Measure to Improve Diagnosis and Prevent Over-diagnosis of Pneumonia and Urinary Tract Infections
$492,860
Measuring Misdiagnosis of Infections Using Machine Learning in a Flexible Framework
$498,750
SEP1+: A Composite Measure to Accurately Assess Early Sepsis Diagnosis
American College of Radiology
$341,322
Closing the Loop: Improving Care Coordination Towards Early Disease Detection
Northwestern University, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
$499,000
Reducing Cancer Due to Colonoscopy Diagnostic Errors using Machine Learning
$207,726
University of Missouri, Sponsored Programs Administration
$339,984
Science Policy Fellowship Program in the Missouri Capitol
University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science
Investing in the Future of the Lawrence Hall of Science
The Art of Tinkering Exhibition
National Geographic Society
$1,983,863
Dynamic Tracking of Convention on Biological Diversity Metrics
$875,000
An Enduring Regional Conservation System in Loreto, Peru
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (Peruvian Society for Environmental Law)
$967,000
Conservation of High Biodiversity Mosaics in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
$386,497
6 months
Economic Analysis in Loreto, Peru
Fundación para el Desarrollo del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas
Funding Options for Bolivia’s Protected Areas
$388,343
University of California, San Francisco, Science and Health Education Partnership
Bay Area Science Festival
$2,200,000
Understanding Amazon Freshwater Ecosystems through Science and Collaboration at Scale
University of Southern California, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Education
$480,630
Advancing Palliative Care through Economic Research and Policy Analyses
Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated
$484,000
Community-Science Leadership Among Science and Technology Centers
New York Hall of Science
$447,975
Beyond Science Communication
American Geophysical Union
$770,000
Building an Enduring Grassroots Constituency for Science
Federation of American Scientists
$509,163
Increasing Science Capacity for Policy Makers
Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
$2,470,814
AVERT: Anticipating Volcanic Eruptions in Real Time
$1,108,875
Multi-jet Propulsion in Marine Animals
International Conservation Partnership Building U.S. Support for Global Conservation
University of Colorado at Boulder, Mortenson Center in Global Engineering
Distributed Surface and Groundwater Monitoring
Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (International Institute for Education in Brazil)
$1,995,000
Supporting Stakeholder Participation in Sustainable Development Planning for the BR-319 Region in Amazonas, Brazil
$298,000
Patient-Reported Measures: Potential and Peril for Assessing Diagnostic Excellence
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Improved Understanding of Amazonian Fires
University of California, Davis Department of Plant Sciences
$154,593
Conditions Associated with Large, Destructive California Wildfires
California Council on Science and Technology
$200,414
Costs and Losses of California Wildfires
$500,824
Committee on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in health and medicine
Oct 2019
$999,741
27 months
Advancing Computational Science by Building Communities of Instructors and Learners
Northern California Grantmakers
$225,000
Supporting Key Strategic Initiatives of the Northern California Grantmakers
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
$790,138
Expanding and Sustaining the PRIDE Learning Network (PRIDE 2)
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
$169,885
Scientific Analysis of Ocean Habitat.
$335,009
SIDM Sustainability Planning Grant
Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
Ocean Conservation Storytelling.
Society of Environmental Journalists
$239,253
Osa Conservation (Friends of the Osa)
$424,925
Citizen Science and Low-cost Tools for Community Engagement and Impact
Conservation Legal Strategies Fund
$1,894,913
Advancing Science of the Galactic Center through Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics
University of Hawaii Foundation
$996,000
A Hua He Inoa Program Expansion
University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy
$1,998,287
Revealing Unambiguous Signatures of Quantum Coherence
University of Rhode Island, Office of Sponsored Projects
$439,212
Taxonomic Framework for Classifying Protists
University of Utah, School of Computing
$1,073,227
Blair Sullivan Investigator Award
$1,250,000
Activating science invention and entrepreneurship for society
$900,900
Sustaining and Growing the Astropy Project
$894,291
Building research software tools for the R programming language
Code for Science and Society
$715,000
Data science community conference and events fund
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
$219,950
A centralized platform for analyzing molecular datasets for a model marine diatom
Fundacion para la Conservacion y el Desarrollo Sostenible
$1,400,000
Piloting Innovative Road Infrastructure Guidelines
Duke University, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
$330,932
Understanding the Value and Real-World Performance of AI-Enabled Diagnostic Support Software
Center for Strategic and International Studies
$358,000
Building New Narratives: Infrastructure in the Amazon
Falling Walls Foundation
$385,000
Falling Walls Engage Expansion
Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative
Coastal Stewardship Network
$230,000
Herencia Colombia: Financing Colombia’s Protected Areas
Sep 2019
$357,000
Transparencia por Colombia
Outreach for MapaInversiones Platforms
$2,400,103
Advancing the Protection of Canada’s Peopled Eastern Arctic Ocean Ecosystems
Stanford University, Department of Genetics
$1,037,489
Deciphering the Second Secret of Life: Allostery
Julia Computing
$1,057,443
Enhancements to the Julia Computing Platform
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
$1,098,129
Studying the Forest and the Trees: A New Technique for the Extraction of DNA from Wood
$730,289
University of Chicago, Department of Radiology
$1,658,328
Multiview Computational Microscope with Machine Learning
$2,306,072
Next Generation Open Source Analysis Tools for Climate Science Research
Science Friday Initiative Inc.
$1,017,527
Citizen Science 2.0
Green Fire Productions
$306,000
Educational Ocean Films
Aug 2019
Marine Affairs Research and Education
$359,792
21 months
Access to Conservation Evidence for Effective Ocean Protection in North America
$4,500,000
Diagnostic Excellence Small Grants Program
Stanford University, Center for Ocean Solutions
$497,700
Mobilizing Implementation of the Port State Measures Agreement in the Pacific
University of Maryland, Department of Geography
Monitoring Expansion of High Forest Risk Crops Across South America
$2,399,613
Monitoring Carbon Emission from Thawing Arctic Permafrost and Wildfire
Tech Museum of Innovation
Solve for Earth Exhibition Build-Out
$499,917
National Research Council Transformation
$889,490
17 months
Millimeter-wave Multiplexing Technology for Probing the Birth of the Universe
$2,629,911
Outriggers for Localization of CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Bursts
Jul 2019
Fundo Socioambiental CASA
Indigenous Territorial Protection to Advance Consolidation and Conservation
$719,000
Smart Infrastructure in the Brazilian Amazon
Nanwakolas Council
$605,000
Stockholm Resilience Centre
$460,625
Phase Three of the Keystone Dialogue Initiative and the Development of the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship I…
$2,054,894
University of Arizona, Sponsored Projects Services
$260,275
Ensuring Accessibility to Marine Microbiology Initiative Sequence Data
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Application of the IUCN Green List Standard in Amazon Protected Areas
Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform, Fisheries Transparency Initiative
$779,000
Increasing Transparency in Fisheries Management in Africa and Latin America
$375,000
San Francisco Baylands
Infrastructure Training Program: Sector Context and Transactions
NewsHour Science Programming
$987,671
66 months
Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Theory Center
$1,158,000
$1,148,000
Stanford University, Department of Physics
$1,163,226
$1,463,816
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
$1,015,596
$1,157,219
$1,310,125
Implementation of Peru's Natural Legacy
Jun 2019
Indiana University, School of Public Health
$177,500
Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency (RRT) Initiative
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
$954,906
Spreading Fully Transparent Clinical Notes
Salo
$877,000
Wildfire Risk Mapping and Early Detection
Planet Labs
$575,000
$611,018
Ensuring Durability for Marine Microbiology Initiative Data
May 2019
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
$719,366
Serious Illness Payment and Contracting Education Collaborative
University of Guelph
$490,000
Reducing the Cost of DNA Barcode Sequencing
$450,000
Support for the Science Philanthropy Alliance's 2019 Activities
$109,973
Scientific Visualizations for Public Science Engagement and Learning
Apr 2019
The Frankfurt Zoological Society
Consolidation of Upper Purus Mosaic, Peru
Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
Seminario Permanente de Investigacion Agraria
$232,000
Strengthening Research and Policy Dialogue on Global Change and Infrastructure in the Peruvian Amazon
J. Craig Venter Institute
$384,379
Sharing Protist Genetic Tools with the Marine Microbial Ecology Research Community
Parks California
$955,557
Learning Fundamental Physics from Astronomy
Stanford University, Office of Science Outreach
$67,500
Extending Research Experiences to Bay Area Science Teachers
$1,525,000
Controlling Sound on the Nanoscale
Hopewell Fund
Academic Data Science Alliance
Northwestern University, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
Which Stars Lead to Black Hole Collisions?
Waterkeeper Alliance
Protecting the Free-flowing Rivers of the Marañón Basin of Peru
$1,050,005
Small Grants
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Habitat Protection
American Association for the Advancement of Science
$700,145
31 months
Federal Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Support
University of Minnesota, Sponsored Projects Administration
$245,200
Feedback, Calibration, and Improvement: Improving Diagnostic Performance Through Evidence-Based Strategies
Mar 2019
$307,602
The Safer Dx Guide: Organizational Risk Assessment to Improve Diagnostic Safety
Stanford University, School of Medicine
$2,059,685
New Tools for Exploring Microbial Life
$192,400
Roman Stocker Investigator Award
Marine Fish Conservation Network
$640,000
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