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The Simons Foundation

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$846.7M
in grants paid
5,303
grants
807
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

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

  • $20.0M

    New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024

    New york genome center 2018 "new gift"

  • $6.7M

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Simons infinity investment matching gift

  • $5.1M

    University of Edinburgh · 2024

    A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research

  • $4.4M

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    Simons center for computational physical chemistry

  • $4.2M

    Clinical Research Associates · New York, NY · 2024

    Autism research

  • $4.1M

    Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024

    National institute for theory and mathematics in biology

  • $3.8M

    Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Simons institute for the theory of computing

  • $3.5M

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Simons math/physics operating fund

  • $3.4M

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024

    Applications of genomics to breast cancer detection, risk assessment and treatment response

  • $3.1M

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Presidential innovation and excellence fund matching gift

  • $2.9M

    Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd

  • $2.2M

    Hautes Etudes Scientifiques · 2024

    Operating support

  • $2.0M

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024

    Genetic contribution to autism

  • $1.5M

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Support for arxiv mmodernization

  • $1.5M

    Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Nsf-simons center for quantitative biology

  • $1.5M

    Research Foundation of the Cuny · New York City, NY · 2024

    Cuny masters in astrophysics bridge program

  • $1.3M

    Eth Zurich · 2024

    Prime - principles of microbial ecosystems

  • $1.3M

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Nsf-simons center for mathematical and statistical analysis of biology

  • $1.3M

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Scgp current use fund

  • $1.1M

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    Simons junior faculty fellows

  • $1.1M

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Ultra-quantum matter

  • $1.1M

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

    Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - core

  • $1.0M

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Data and tools to define the biogeography of marine phytoplankton

  • $1.0M

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Planetary context of habitability and exobiology

  • $1.0M

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Nsf-simons center for mathematical and statistical analysis of biology

  • $1.0M

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Nyce matching grant

  • $1.0M

    Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Collaboration on the theoretical foundations of deep learning

  • $948,145

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Arithmetic geometry, number theory, and computation

  • $914,008

    Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024

    Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain

  • $890,169

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Computational biogeochemical modeling of marine ecosystems

  • $880,262

    Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Array project 3

  • $856,641

    Geisinger Clinic · Danville, PA · 2024

    Simons variation in individuals project (vip) recruitment core and phase 2 coordination site

  • $825,000

    University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)

  • $794,685

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Stony brook simons stem scholars program

  • $770,284

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    Simons-nyu science explorations program

  • $750,000

    Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

    The role of microbiomes in shaping the ecology and evolution of tropical forest ecosystems

  • $750,000

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    Sex-specific differences in cognitive and brain aging; spi murphy: conserved regulatory pathways in age-related loss of plasticity and cognitive function

  • $749,759

    Nyu School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024

    Simons junior faculty fellows

  • $748,492

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    Triangulation of missense variant impact through multimodal modeling and functional assays

  • $728,748

    University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Simons chair in probability and evolutionary theory

  • $722,309

    Woods Hole Oceanographic · Woods Hole, MA · 2024

    Advancing big data solutions for high volume image data in marine plankton ecology

  • $710,550

    Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    A plasma haloscope for the post-inflation axion

  • $709,977

    Whitehead Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Autism, sex differences, and microglia - core

  • $700,000

    University of Miami · Key Biscayne, FL · 2024

    Institute of mathematical sciences of the americas

  • $691,551

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Simons junior faculty fellows

  • $636,202

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    Simons collaboration on extreme electrodynamics of compact sources

  • $629,369

    New York Hall of Science · Corona, NY · 2024

    Building a stem-engagement partnership in corona

  • $625,000

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Tbi research fund for ape and human origins.

  • $619,895

    Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Understanding the cellular and circuit bases for behavioral impairments in the scn2a knock-out rat

  • $618,619

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Glial mechanisms by which sleep preserves cognitive function and plasticity in aging

  • $613,450

    University of Texas · Dallas, TX · 2024

    Cellular resolution multi-omics of white matter tracts in asd

  • $609,688

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Hidden symmetries and fusion energy

  • $597,150

    Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Simons observatory

  • $573,449

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    A new laboratory search for dark matter with a small-scale experiment

  • $562,500

    Uc Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

    The simons fund for visiting scientists at the kavli institute of theoretical physics

  • $562,500

    Rutgers University Newark · Newark, NJ · 2024

    Simons junior faculty fellows

  • $550,732

    Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2024

    Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 3

  • $522,030

    Woods Hole Oceanographic · Woods Hole, MA · 2024

    Exploring the biochemical functions of marine microbial communities through native and community proteomics

  • $520,558

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

    Astrophysical investigations of dynamical chern-simons theory

  • $500,000

    Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Nsf-simons center for quantitative biology

  • $500,000

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Remapping across time, space and region; population analysis of cognitive variables

  • $500,000

    The Research Fdn for Suny Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Development of therapeutics for foxg1 syndrome using patient-specific human ipsc and mouse models

  • $500,000

    Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Stony brook university center for foundations of nuclear science

  • $495,791

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    Genetic analysis of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

  • $488,557

    Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024

    Piloting gene- and mutation- specific aso therapies for asd

  • $485,767

    Abdus Salam Int Centre · 2024

    Abdus salam international centre for theoretical physics

  • $485,706

    Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 2

  • $483,720

    Research Foundation Stony Brook · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

    Simons collaboration on the non-perturbative bootstrap

  • $482,099

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Scope-aloha and gradients

  • $468,750

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Sex-specific differences in cognitive and brain aging; spi murphy: conserved regulatory pathways in age-related loss of plasticity and cognitive function

  • $460,557

    Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    A registry for clinical and functional data for variants in the grin gene family

  • $455,397

    Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Prime - principles of microbial ecosystems

  • $454,975

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Top down control and metabolic cross-feeding in marine microbiomes

  • $454,072

    Woods Hole Oceanographic · Woods Hole, MA · 2024

    Diversity and persistence in plankton communities: linking models and observations of taxa and trait dynamics

  • $452,310

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Microbial growth, interactions, and biogeographies from 'omics data

  • $450,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Arithmetic geometry, number theory, and computation

  • $450,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Science philanthropy alliance

  • $450,000

    Science Philanthropy Alliance · New York, NY · 2024

    Science philanthropy alliance membership

  • $446,114

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Learning the universe

  • $436,364

    New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024

    Genome accessibility as a high-resolution biomarker for asd gene therapy

  • $433,694

    Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    Training women of color in stem at spelman college

  • $427,328

    Researchamerica · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Stac task force on a national vision for s&t to advance u.s. Competitiveness in the 21st century

  • $425,699

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    Hidden symmetries and fusion energy

  • $423,175

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Science in vivo: phase ii

  • $422,553

    Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Multimodal fingerprinting of cellular phenotypes associated with asd risk variants

  • $420,000

    MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Simons investigator in mathematics

  • $420,000

    University of Cambridge · 2024

    Simons investigator in physics

  • $417,490

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Simons collaboration on celestial holography

  • $416,129

    Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Neurodev: genetic characterization of neurodevelopmental disorders in african populations

  • $416,115

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Spark sleep study, phenotype analysis, and pipeline benchmarking

  • $409,152

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Microbial nitrogen cycling: novel organisms and enigmatic processes

  • $405,000

    University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    Simons early career investigator in marine microbial ecology and evolution award

  • $405,000

    Woods Hole Oceanographic · Woods Hole, MA · 2024

    Simons early career investigator in marine microbial ecology and evolution award

  • $400,000

    Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)

  • $399,595

    University of British Columbia · 2024

    High throughput asd variant functional testing using genetic interaction technologies in model systems

  • $399,500

    Oregon Health and Science · Portland, OR · 2024

    High-throughput molecular and connectivity asd variant phenotyping in vivo using single-cell, single-virion genomic technologies

  • $399,479

    The Hospital for Sick Children · 2024

    Functional annotation of gene variants in asd risk genes using dna methylation signatures

  • $398,982

    University of Toronto · 2024

    A splicing code for elucidating genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder

  • $394,218

    Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Deep insights into microbial interactions through high-resolution observations and modeling

  • $392,707

    Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Platforms to accelerate development of aso therapeutics for haploinsufficiencies associated with autism

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