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Funding search · EIN 131851145 · Grantmaking charity · New York, NY

American Council of Learned Societies

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$67.8M
in grants paid
588
grants
314
recipients
2021–2024
filing years

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Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $1.2M

    United Negro College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $577,000

    Pomona College · Claremont, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $546,425

    University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $452,000

    California State University Foundation · Long Beach, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $315,000

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $311,000

    Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $269,933

    University of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $234,000

    University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $200,000

    Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $199,000

    University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $192,000

    Hunter College Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $186,983

    Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $182,000

    Amherst College · Amherst, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $180,000

    Bowdoin College · Brunswick, ME · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $173,000

    Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $171,000

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $170,708

    University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $168,000

    Oberlin College · Oberlin, OH · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $168,000

    Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $164,000

    City College of New York · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $162,000

    Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $160,000

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $160,000

    Sojourner House · Providence, RI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    People Powered Global Hub for Participatory Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Bend the Arc a Jewish Partnership for Justice · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Educational Video Center · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Full Spectrum Features Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Center for Law and Social Policy · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Justice Action Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    United Way of Massachusetts Bay · Boston, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Mission Edge · San Diego, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Lenox Hill Neighborhood House · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Los Angeles Poverty Department · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Zora'S House · Columbus, OH · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Glma Health Professionals Advancing Lgbtq Equality · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    The Participatory Budgeting Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Ufw Foundaion · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Milwaukee Turners · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    City Bureau Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $158,000

    United Neighborhood Houses of New York · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $155,253

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $155,000

    Whittier College · Whittier, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $152,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $149,940

    University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $145,000

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $145,000

    The Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $142,000

    Grinnell College · Grinnell, IA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $142,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $140,135

    University of California Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $139,500

    Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $137,994

    Swarthmore College · Swarthmore, PA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $137,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $131,627

    Carleton College · Northfield, MN · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $130,000

    Macalester College · St Paul, MN · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $127,000

    Wellesley College · Wellesley, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $120,902

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $118,000

    Wesleyan University · Middletown, CT · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $117,970

    University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $116,000

    Barnard College · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $116,000

    Queens College Foundation · Flushing, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $113,000

    University of Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $112,000

    Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $109,995

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $108,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $107,000

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $107,000

    Connecticut College · New London, CT · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $100,000

    Black Lunch Table · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $100,000

    Santa Clara University · Santa Clara, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $100,000

    Bard College · Annandale, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $100,000

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $99,996

    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University · Blacksburg, VA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $98,000

    Smith College · Northampton, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $97,572

    University of Kentucky Research Foundation · Lexington, KY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $87,000

    University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Our Community Ltd · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Tufts College · Somerville, MA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Disability Rights North Carolina · Raleigh, NC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    National Public Housing Museum · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    North Carolina Justice Center · Raleigh, NC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Americans for Immigrant Justice · Miami, FL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Coalition for the Homeless · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Open Communities · Evanson, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $80,000

    Amica Center for Immigrant Rights · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $79,500

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $78,000

    Uptogether · Concord, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $78,000

    Paraprofessional Healthcare Institue · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $78,000

    Rethink Media · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $78,000

    Hispanic Scholars Program · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $78,000

    Western North Carolina Community Health Service · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $70,000

    Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $69,000

    Brooklyn College · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $65,000

    84000 · Fremont, CA · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $65,000

    The Tricycle Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $65,000

    The American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $61,800

    The Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $61,200

    The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024

    Stipends/fellowships

  • $60,000

    University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Unlike private foundations, grantmaking charities and associations often run formal grant programs with real application cycles — check their website for current opportunities. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.