Tucson, Arizona · EIN 131963407. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $7.5M across 157 grants in 2024, a median of $55K each.
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Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.
As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2024, IRS filing object id 202533169349103063. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.
The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2024 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.
The 15 largest of the 157 grants paid in 2024, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.
| # | Recipient | State | Amount | Purpose as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern University | IL | $193,142 | Developing Mathematical Models for the Formation of New Collaborations at Conferences |
| 2 | California Institute of Technology | CA | $120,000 | Planetesimal interiors: Searching for evidence of core material |
| 3 | California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo | CA | $120,000 | Colloidal Stabilization of Covalent Organic Frameworks with Acid-Base Chemistry and STEM Educator Training |
| 4 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | $120,000 | Measuring Cosmic Birefringence in the Presence of Galactic Foregrounds and Improving Career Preparation Through Advanced Physics Labs |
| 5 | Dartmouth College | NH | $120,000 | Characterizing and modulating interactions of disordered proteins that drive biomolecular condensate formation and cytotoxic aggregation |
| 6 | Emory University | GA | $120,000 | Machine Learning Aided Quantum Chemistry Discovery in the Solution Phase |
| 7 | Hamilton College | NY | $120,000 | Characterization of enzymes that build and degrade spore cortex peptidoglycan. |
| 8 | Harvard University | MA | $120,000 | Searching for New Physics with Galactic Neutrinos |
| 9 | Hope College | MI | $120,000 | Chemical-Mechanical Control Over Nanoparticle-Hydrogel Sliding Interfaces |
| 10 | Pennsylvania State University | PA | $120,000 | Allostery and Architecture: Building and Validating Functional Models of Multidomain Receptors |
| 11 | Queen's University | CA | $120,000 | Combining Quantum Chemistry Concepts and Machine Learning for Drug Discovery |
| 12 | Trinity University | TX | $120,000 | Interface-Induced Changes to Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Environmentally-Relevant Polycyclic Aromatic Species |
| 13 | University of California Riverside | CA | $120,000 | Skeletal Editing of Silicon Nanostructures & Student-Created Social Media Videos to Close the Achievement Gap |
| 14 | University of Michigan | MI | $120,000 | Unveiling Cosmic Treasures: Exploring the secrets of astromineralogy with X-ray imaging spectroscopy |
| 15 | University of Missouri | MO | $120,000 | A New Tool to Probe Condensed-Phase Chemistry: Rotational Spectroscopy of Buffer-Gas Cooled Molecules Desorbed from an Ice Surface |
| Tax year | Grants | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 98 | $5.3M |
| 2021 | 104 | $5.4M |
| 2022 | 137 | $6.2M |
| 2023 | 140 | $6.5M |
| 2024 | 157 | $7.5M |
Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.
Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.
Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.
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