Funding search · AI and computing · New York
Who funds AI and computing work in New York
9 funders have a record of paying for AI and computing work by New York recipients: 16 grants totaling $5.8M, most recently in 2024 — all private foundations. The largest by matched giving are Omidyar Network Fund ($599,964), The Ford Foundation ($2.2M) and John S and James L Knight Foundation ($100,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New York recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Omidyar Network FundRedwood City, CA
3 matching grants · $599,964 · through 2024Largest: $99,964 to New York University — to support grantee's national artificial intelligence research resource ("nairr") pilot
Largest: $700,000 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — core support for the just tech fellowship to advance justice & equity by transforming racial & gender power imbalances within the field of artificial intelligence; and advance inte…
Largest: $50,000 to FORDHAM UNIVERSITY — to support nonpartisan legal research of regulatory frameworks for artificial intelligence technologies.
Largest: $2.3M to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — support for scientific research on m2lines - multiscale machine learning in coupled earth system modeling
Charles H Hood FoundationManchesterbythesea, MA
2 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2023Largest: $160,000 to YALE UNIVERSITY — child health research award - diagnosis of pediatric malignancies using developmental mapping and machine learning
Largest: $25,000 to ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION USA INC — research on machine learning systems
Largest: $8,258 to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — 78443 identifying the ethical dimensions of the development and use of big data for health research and artificial intelligence in health care
Largest: $250,000 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — to design, test, and promulgate standards for disclosing and auditing the management practices of companies that produce artificial intelligence systems
Largest: $100,000 to SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — to complete a proof of concept using machine learning to predict the likelihood of intimate partner violence
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