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The Wenner-Gren Foundation for

Name: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for grants, 2022–2024
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951
grants reported: $18.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $20,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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31 grants matching “supervised” · $510,411

$20,000
Thoiba Saeedh · 2024
Saeedh, thoiba (islamic university of maldives) to support write-up in social anthropology at university of edinburgh, supervised by lotte hoek
$20,000
Daniel Rodriguez Osorio · 2024
Rodriguez osorio, daniel (universidad de los andes, bogota, colombia) to support write-up in archaeology at u texas, san antonio, supervised by steve kosiba
$20,000
Garcia Sanchez · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Garcia sanchez, bania, u. Of queretaro, santiago de queretaro, mexico - to support write-up in linguistic anthropology at u. Of virginia, charlottesville, va, supervised by dr. Mark sicoli
$20,000
Syed Mir Waleed · San Diego, CA · 2024
Waleed, syed mir (ashoka u., india), to aid training in social-cultural anthropology at u. Of california, irvine, supervised by dr. Samar al-bulushi
$20,000
Camille Louis · 2024
Louis, camille, institut d'etudes et de recherches africaines d'haiti, port-au-prince, haiti - to aid dissertation write-up in archaeology at u. Of california, santa cruz, ca, supervised by dr. James cameron monroe
$20,000
Jorge Antonio Campos Tellez · 2024
Campos tellez, jorge (el colegio de mexico, mexico city) to aid training in sociocultural anthropology at u of witwatersrand, supervised by achille mbembe and hylton white
$19,971
Minh Thi Tran · 2024
Tran, minh (vietnam national university - hanoi) to aid training in bioarchaeology at the u of the philippines, supervised by dr. Kimberly plomp
$4,184
Giselle Figueroa De La Ossa · 2024
Figueroa, giselle (university of the andes, bogota, colombia) to aid dissertation write-up in sociocultural anthropology at london school of economics supervised by gisa weszkalnys
$20,000
Leyya Hoosen · 2023
Hoosen, leyya (university of the witwatersrand) to support dissertation write-up in sociocultural anthropology under the supervision of matthew wilhelm-solomon
$20,000
James K Munene · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Munene, james, the national museums of kenya, nairobi, kenya - to aid dissertation write-up in archaeology at u. Of michigan, ann arbor, mi, supervised by dr. Brian stewart
$20,000
Fatemeh Ghaheri · 2023
Ghaheri, fatemeh, tarbiat modares u., tehran, iran - to aid dissertation write-up in archaeology at u. Of texas, austin, tx, supervised by dr. Arlene rosen
$20,000
Abdikadir Guto Kurewa · 2023
Kurewa, abdikadir (national museums of kenya (nmk) to aid training in archaeology at the the u, of florida, gainesville, supervised by dr. Katherine grillo
$20,000
Giselle Figueroa De La Ossa · 2023
Figueroa, giselle (university of the andes, bogota, colombia) to aid dissertation write-up in sociocultural anthropology at london school of economics supervised by gisa weszkalnys
$19,971
Minh Thi Tran · 2023
Tran, minh (vietnam national university - hanoi) to aid training in bioarchaeology at the u of the philippines, supervised by dr. Kimberly plomp
$19,740
Syed Mir Waleed · Irvine, CA · 2023
Waleed, syed mir (ashoka u., india), to aid training in social-cultural anthropology at u. Of california, irvine, supervised by dr. Samar al-bulushi
$17,500
Thoiba Saeedh · 2023
Saeedh, thoiba (islamic university of maldives) to support training in social anthropology at university of edinburgh, supervised by lotte hoek
$13,000
Jorge Antonio Campos Tellez · 2023
Campos tllez, jorge (el colegio de mexico, mexico city) to aid training in sociocultural anthropology at u of witwatersrand, supervised by achille mbembe
$8,545
Vu Tien Dung Ha · Stanford, CA · 2023
Ha, vu tien dung (stanford u.) "race back to diversity: mapping racial and ethnic difference in southeast asian national genome projects" supervised by dr. Duana fullwiley
$7,000
Jorge Antonio Campos Tellez · 2023
Campos tllez, jorge (el colegio de mexico, mexico city) to aid training in sociocultural anthropology at u of witwatersrand, supervised by achille mbembe
$600
Jorge Antonio Campos Tellez · 2023
Campos tllez, jorge (el colegio de mexico, mexico city) to aid training in sociocultural anthropology at u of witwatersrand, supervised by achille mbembe
$20,000
Akshay Ragupathy · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Unreal estate: nris, land scams, and the modernization of hyderabad, supervised by dr. Rosalind morris
$20,000
Zandi · 2022
To aid research on 'governed sacralization of space and memory; commemorative practices of the iran-iraq war in the post-revolutionary iran,' supervised by dr. Amira mittermaier
$17,500
Bania Garcia Sanchez · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
To aid training in anthropology at u. Of virginia, charlottesville, va, supervised by dr. Mark sicoli
$17,500
Leyya Hoosen · 2022
To support training in sociocultural anthropology under the supervision of matthew wilhelm-solomon
$17,500
Syon Satchi Vasquez · 2022
To aid training in archaeology at u of california, los angeles, under the supervision of stella nair
$17,500
Tuya Shagdar · 2022
To aid dissertation write-up in social cultural anthropology at u. Of cambridge, supervised by dr. David sneath
$17,500
Hone Mandefro Belaye · 2022
To aid training in sociocultural anthropology at concordia u (montreal), supervised by dr. Julie s. Archambault
$17,500
Jose Raul Ortiz Vallejos · Tucson, AZ · 2022
To support dissertation write up in archaeology at u. Of arizona, tucson, az, supervised by dr. Takeshi inomata
$17,400
Blade Engda Redae · 2022
To aid training in archaeology at u. Of poitiers, france, supervised by dr. Jean-renaud boisserie
$12,500
Giselle Figueroa · 2022
To aid training in sociocultural anthropology at london school of economics supervised by gisa weszkalnys
$5,000
Giselle Figueroa · 2022
To aid training in sociocultural anthropology at london school of economics supervised by gisa weszkalnys

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Michael Brown3 grants · $207,190
David Christopher Thompson2 grants · $61,450
Penina Emanuel Kadalida3 grants · $57,485
Senanta Fanidh Sanogo3 grants · $57,485
David Mensah3 grants · $57,445
Cindy Mansour3 grants · $57,122
David Felipe Rodriguez Mora3 grants · $56,798
Reda Mohamed Merida3 grants · $56,560
Yananiso Chinovava Maposa3 grants · $47,300
Daniel Rodriguez Osorio2 grants · $44,996

Giving over time

$6.2M

2022

$5.9M

2023

$6.6M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 951 grants.

$71,000
Michael Brown · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
School of advanced research, santa fe, nm - to aid establishment of fellowship in anthropology in black experiences, santa fe, new mexico
$71,000
Michael Brown · Sante Fe, NM · 2022
To aid establishment of fellowship in anthropology in black experiences, santa fe, new mexico
$65,190
Michael Brown · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
School of advanced research, santa fe, nm - to aid establishment of fellowship in anthropology in black experiences, santa fe, new mexico
$40,000
Alice Martins Villela Pinto · 2024
Pinto, alice (independent scholar) "the retake"
$40,000
Allison Enfield Caine · Laramie, WY · 2024
Caine, allison (wyoming, u. Of) "restless ecologies: climate change and multispecies survival in the peruvian andes"
$40,000
Anna Ilona Roberts · 2024
Roberts, anna (independent scholar) "can bonobo (pan paniscus) communicative complexity enable social complexity?"
$40,000
Aynur Kadir · 2024
Kadir, aynur (british columbia, u. Of) "safekeeping culture: grassroots preservation as uyghur survival"
$40,000
Bremen Donovan · 2024
Donovan, bremen (virginia, u. Of) "big mouth"
$40,000
Carolina Sanchez Boe · 2024
Boe, carolina (aarhus u.) "digital detention electronic monitoring of asylum seekers in the usa"
$40,000
Darcie Deangelo · Lowell, MA · 2024
Deangelo, darcie (oklahoma, u of) "learning to love rats"
$40,000
Douaa Sheet · Washington, DC · 2024
Sheet, douaa (american u.) "the politics of dignity and the tunisian truth commission"
$40,000
Emine Rezzan Karaman · 2024
Karaman, emine rezzan (independent scholar) "getting justice for the forcibly disappeared through judicio-politics in turkey"
$40,000
Gaspard Renault · 2024
Renault, gaspard (museum national d'histoire naturelle) "edges of the forest. A multi-species film anthropology."
$40,000
Jacob Nerenberg · 2024
Nerenberg, jacob (leibniz-zentrum moderner orient) "nerenberg, jacob (leibniz-zentrum moderner orient) "land locked: indigenous labour and citizenship on an asia-pacific frontier""
$40,000
Jamie Allison Haverkamp · Lewiston, ME · 2024
Haverkamp, jamie (bates college) "climate coloniality: resilience, resistance and restor(y)ing in andean worlds"
$40,000
Joseph Klein · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
Klein, joseph (california, santa cruz, u. Of) "the world for a coral: fortune and belonging on the reefs of southeast sulawesi, indonesia"
$40,000
Lowe Hunter · Oakland, CA · 2024
Hunter, elizabeth (independent scholar) "afropean feminist methodologies: towards an ethnography of togetherness."
$40,000
Marcos Freire De Andrade Neves · 2024
Freire de andrade neves, marcos (free u. Of berlin) not dead yet"
$40,000
Minwoo Jung · Chicago, IL · 2024
Jung, minwoo (loyola u. Chicago) "queer geopolitics: rights projects in contested asia"
$40,000
Mohammad Hasan Ashraf · 2024
Ashraf, mohammad (jahangirnagar u.) "labouring for global fast fashion: multi-sited ethnography of regimented production regime, garment workers life, social reproduction and health in bangladesh"
$40,000
Nadide Ozge Serin · Walla Walla, WA · 2024
Serin, nadide ozge (whitman college) "writing of death: ethics and politics of the death fast resistance in turkey (2000-2007)"
$40,000
Nazl Ozkan · 2024
Ozkan, nazl (koc u.) "contesting secular equality: provocation narrative, press, and alevis in turkey"
$40,000
Nicholas Garcia Johnson · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Johnson, nicholas garcia (emory u.) "emergent citizenships: mapuche (indigenous) and chilean (non-indigenous) politics and belonging in peri-urban santiago, (chile)."
$40,000
Nishita Trisal · 2024
Trisal, nishita (ashoka u.) "banking on uncertainty: debt and interdependence in kashmir"
$40,000
Samantha Fladd · Pullman, WA · 2024
Fladd, samantha (washington state u.) "accumulating identity in trash: spatial modification and spiritual stewardship in ancestral hopi villages"
$40,000
Tracie Canada · Durham, NC · 2024
Canada, tracie (duke u.) "tackling the everyday: race and nation in big-time college football"
$40,000
Andrea Silva-Caballero · 2023
Silva-caballero, andrea (independent scholar) "adolescent sleep development and variability in non-industrial environments: patterning, efficiency and cultural representations"
$40,000
Catalina Tesar · 2023
Tesar, catalina (bucharest, u. Of) "time of marriage. Gender, wealth and reproduction among cortorari transylvanian roma"
$40,000
Charles H P Zuckerman · Shelburne, VT · 2023
Zuckerman, charles (sydney, u. Of) "what the action is: gambling and moral categories in late-socialist laos"
$40,000
Christine Janney · Elmhurst, IL · 2023
Janney, christine (institution not listed) "searching for nora (working title)"
$40,000
Cristina Teixeira Marins · 2023
Marins, cristina (estadual do rio de janeiro, u.) "hyperconnected and hoping for the best: alternative work, digital platforms, and social change in brazil"
$40,000
Deblina Dey · 2023
Dey, deblina (o.p. Jindal global u.) "ageing, law, and the politics of care in india"
$40,000
Elana Faye Resnick · Goleta, CA · 2023
Resnick, elana (california, santa barbara, u. Of) "refusing sustainability: life beyond waste at the edges of europe"
$40,000
Fabien Raymond-Yves Clouette · 2023
Clouette, fabien (paris 10-nanterre, u. Of) "atalaya whale fire"
$40,000
Geronimo Barrera De La Torre · 2023
Barrera de la torre, geronimo (texas, austin, u. Of) "xa lyu k?yaq: un mundo de cerros (world of mountains)"
$40,000
Hayal Akarsu Karpuzcu · 2023
Akarsu karpuzcu, hayal (utrecht, u of) "force experts: afterlives of police reforms in turkey"
$40,000
Jing Xu · Seattle, WA · 2023
Xu, jing (washington, u. Of) "unruly children: moral development in a taiwanese village (1958-1960)"
$40,000
Keitlyn Alcantara · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Alcantara, keitlyn (indiana u., bloomington) "recipes of resistance: an archaeology of the past and present"
$40,000
Lucas Marques · 2023
Marques, lucas (independent scholar) "on ogun's railroad"
$40,000
Nicholas Lawrence Caverly · Amherst, MA · 2023
Caverly, nicholas (massachusetts, amherst, u. Of) "demolishing detroit: how structural racism takes place"
$40,000
Olivia Casagrande · 2023
Casagrande, olivia (sheffield, u. Of) "spaces of interconnection and saturation. Indigenous storytelling, world-making and place."
$40,000
Paige Madison · Bozeman, MT · 2023
Madison, paige (independent scholar) "hobbits and human origins: how tiny fossils raised big questions about who we are"
$40,000
Takami Shiratori Delisle · Lexington, KY · 2023
Delisle, takami (independent scholar) "troubling (white) anthropology: stories from racially minoritized anthropologists"
$40,000
Yasmin Moll · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Moll, yasmin (michigan, ann arbor, u. Of) "'nubia is a place inside us': collective memory, salvage anthropology, and indigenous activism in egypt"
$40,000
Aditi Saraf · 2022
Frontier signatures: trade, sovereignty and political economy in kashmir
$40,000
Amy Elizabeth Clark · Norman, OK · 2022
At home in the paleolithic: the making of the home and its archaeological signatures
$40,000
Camilo Sanz · Norman, OK · 2022
Oncopolitics of exhaustion: cancer, biomedical practices and health insurance businesses in neoliberal colombia
$40,000
Carla Hernandez Garavito · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Reimagining colonialism: a local history of community and empire in the peruvian andes between the 15th and 18th centuries
$40,000
Cassandra Beth Koontz Scaffidi · Mariposa, CA · 2022
Immigration and mobility in the age of ancient andean empires: insights from isotope biogeochemistry and landscape bioarchaeology
$40,000
Christien Philmarc Tompkins · New York City, NY · 2022
Reconstructing race: the experimental labor of new orleans education reform
$40,000
Daniel White · 2022
Technically well: contemplative technologies and the politics of human-centered ai in japan
$40,000
Darlene Elizabeth Dubuisson · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Reclaiming haiti's futures: returned intellectuals, placemaking, and radical imagination
$40,000
David Christopher Thompson · 2022
Resocialize to conquer the future: incarceration and reform in rio de janeiro
$40,000
Elizabeth Geglia · Washington, DC · 2022
Homeland, colony, state, or company? Contesting private city development in honduras
$40,000
Eva Luksaite · 2022
The intimate state: sterilisation in rural north india
$40,000
Fatima Mojaddedi · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Shelter for the night: language and discontent in afghanistan
$40,000
Gina Jae · New York, NY · 2022
National commitments and private sentiments: the anticipatory politics of sickle cell disease in the us and france
$40,000
Hosna Sheikholeslami · Granville, OH · 2022
Translating imaginaries: the infrastructure and politics of publishing western theory in iran
$40,000
Laura Kathryn McClellan · Mississippi State, MS · 2022
If we were animals: human-animal care and comparison in jordan
$40,000
Leah Lowthorp · Eugene, OR · 2022
Deep cosmopolitanism: kutiyattam, dynamic tradition, and globalizing heritage in kerala, india
$40,000
Moyukh Chatterjee · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Recomposing violence: the limits of exposure and anti-muslim politics in india
$40,000
Noman Baig · 2022
Cultures of greed: commerce and cosmology in pakistan
$40,000
Shreya P Subramani · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Carcerality in transition: racializing progressive governance in new orleans
$40,000
Spensy Kmitta Pimentel · 2022
Remembering the 2nd of july ? Afro-indigenous relations as an anticolonial strategy in southern bahia
$40,000
Utpal Niranjan Sandesara · Tustin, CA · 2022
She is not ours: sex selection and the ambivalence of care in western india
$40,000
Veysel Firat Bozcali · 2022
Borders unenforced: kurdish smuggling economies and techno-legal politics in turkey
$40,000
Yasemin Ipek · Centreville, VA · 2022
Crisiswork: activism, class-making, and bounded futures in lebanon
$40,000
Yichen Rao · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Financial cyborgs: money, desire, and machinic lives in digital china
$40,000
Zeynep Oguz · 2022
Unsettling grounds: indeterminate oil, state power, and earth politics in turkey
$36,430
Kristina Linda Baines · Sunnyside, NY · 2022
Aid new york academy of sciences anthropology program section network and program development, 2021-2023 initiatives grant, renewal ofcontinuing program
$35,556
Jessie Fredlund · Astoria, NY · 2024
Fredlund, jessie (connecticut, u. Of) "climate change and the ancestors: rain, gender, and politics in a tanzanian watershed"
$35,556
Michelle Elizabeth Young · Nashville, TN · 2024
Young, michelle (vanderbilt u.) "beyond the horizon: pericentric complexity in the chavin phenomenon at atalla, peru"
$35,556
Christine Sargent · Denver, CO · 2023
Sargent, christine (colorado, denver, u. Of) "kinship futures: motherhood and the making of down syndrome in urban jordan"
$35,556
Kali Rubaii · West Lafayette, IN · 2022
Counter-resurgency: iraqs ecologies of coercion
$35,552
Alessandro Angelini · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Angelini, alessandro (johns hopkins u.) "model favela: miniature life in rio de janeiro"
$30,086
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De · 2024
To support the development of a doctoral program in anthropology at pontificia u. Catolica de chile, santiago, chile - institutional development grant
$28,140
William Randall Haas · Laramie, WY · 2023
Haas, william (wyoming, u. Of ) "the andean ascent: high-altitude forager archaeology in south america"
$26,966
Lauren Alyssa Hayes · Laramie, WY · 2024
Hayes, lauren (wyoming, u.) "walking the line: gender, communication, and the new manufacturing workplace in appalachia"
$26,670
Charlotte Goudge · Waltham, MA · 2024
Goudge, charlotte (brandeis u.) "new humanist perspectives of panoptic plantationscapes in antigua"
$26,667
Samantha Maurer Fox · Glen Rock, NJ · 2023
Fox, samantha (lehigh u.) "the afterlife of utopia: urban renewal in germany's model socialist city"
$26,667
Annick Thomassin · 2022
Preparation of manuscript for publication of thesis:this part of the sea belongs to us: politics, sea rights and fisheries co-management in the torres strait
$26,664
Columba Gonzalez-Duarte · 2022
Tied mobilities: an ethnography of human-butterfly migration in north america
$26,664
Ruth Elizabeth Goldstein · Durham, NC · 2022
Trafficking in femininity: nature, culture, and gender along the interoceanic highway
$25,000
Alaa Saad · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Saad, alaa (johns hopkins u.) "prompting the past, crafting the present: replication technologies and the renarration of egyptian histories"
$25,000
Alexander David Symons · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Symons, alexander (cornell u.) "walking walls: herds, enclosures and land claims in the late bronze age south caucasus."
$25,000
Alexandra Lavrillier · 2024
Lavrillier, alexandra (paris-saclay, u. (versailles)) "an arctic indigenous knowledge system and anthropological observation of changes in climate, biodiversity, and society"
$25,000
Amir Khorasani Ejbarkolaei · 2024
Khorasani ejbarkolae, amir (bremen, u. Of) "hydraulic legacies: co-evolution of oil, water, and labor in the middle east's pioneering oil complex of mahshahr and abadan"
$25,000
Anandi Gandhi · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
Gandhi, anandi (california, santa cruz, u. Of) "coexistent futures: asian elephant-farmer relations in a changing world"
$25,000
Andres Ignacio Robledo · 2024
Robledo, andres (institut catala de paleoecologia humana i evolucion social (iphes)3/31/2026) "human and fire adaptations during holocene in semi-arids mountain landscapes (argentina)"
$25,000
Armand Belao Mijares · 2024
Mijares, armand salvador (philippines, u. Of the) "looking for the motherlode: archaeological excavation of the homo luzonensis site at callao cave"
$25,000
Ashwin Subramanian · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Subramanian, ashwin (harvard u.) "ripple effects: agrarian change, caste and kinship in central india"
$25,000
Bri Matusovsky · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Matusovsky, bri (california, san francisco, u. Of) "the monkey problem of st. Kitts: an exploration of problematization in multi-species ethnography"
$25,000
Brittany Britt Dawson · San Diego, CA · 2024
Dawson, brittany (britt) (california, berkeley, u. Of) "somos musulmanes: living islam at the mexico-u.s. Border"
$25,000
Chazelle Elizabeth Rhoden · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Rhoden, chazelle (columbia u.) "afro-religious animations: spirit, space and climate-driven conservation in brazil"
$25,000
Chilton Lee Tippin · Longmont, CO · 2024
Tippin, chilton (colorado, boulder, u. Of) "defending multiple waters: river-based resistances and toxic transfusions in the late-industrial watershed of the rio grande/bravo"
$25,000
Chrislyn Laurie Laurore · Riviera Beach, FL · 2024
Laurore, chrislyn laurie (pennsylvania, u. Of) ""the love of liberty brought us here": black indigeneity, slave heritage, and the politics of return"
$25,000
Craig Stevens · Chicago, IL · 2024
Stevens, craig (northwestern u.) "the love of liberty met us here: archaeology as a tool of restoration and reclamation"
$25,000
David Raymond Carey Jr · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Carey jr., david (loyola u. Maryland) "pandemic cycles: science, healing, and indigenous people in postcolonial guatemala"
$25,000
Davina Ruth Two Bears · Tempe, AZ · 2024
Two bears, davina (arizona state, u of) "old leupp indian boarding school and nikkei isolation center community-accountable archaeological partnership"
$25,000
Elena Judith Peeples · Ewing, NJ · 2024
Peeples, elena (columbia teachers college) "trenton makes: urban planning and the production of expertise"

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