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The Simons Foundation

Name: The Simons Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

5,303
grants reported: $846.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $72,495
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

simons theory investigator autism research geometry brain collaboration

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Autism genetics, sex differences, and ASD mechanism research
Fundamental mathematics, theoretical physics, and theory of computing
Marine microbial ecology, plankton biogeography, ocean 'omics
Computational and quantitative biology centers, often NSF-Simons cofunded
STEM education pipelines, scholars programs, and science outreach
Institutional capital and matching gifts, heavily Stony Brook and NYC

Typical grant

Median grant is about $72,000, with the middle half running $8,400 to $160,804, so most of the file is small: fellowships, travel, individual investigator supplements, and pieces of larger collaborations. The big checks, $1M to $20M, go to institutional infrastructure and named centers (New York Genome Center, Stony Brook matching gifts, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, NSF-Simons centers) rather than to single projects. Giving repeats hard: the same universities and the same collaboration titles reappear year over year in multi-site, multi-project structures.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“SIMONS COLLABORATION ON”
“SIMONS JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS”
“NSF-SIMONS CENTER”
“PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS”
“AUTISM SEX DIFFERENCES”
“SIMONS INVESTIGATOR”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame work as one project or core within a multi-site collaboration, the structure they already fund repeatedly.
For autism-adjacent work, connect to sex differences, somatic variants, or SPARK/Simons VIP cohort data.
Ask in the $400K to $900K range for a single-lab project; that matches their per-site awards.
Emphasize theory, computation, and open data tools; they fund arXiv modernization and big-data pipelines.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates in NY, CA, and MA, with Stony Brook receiving repeated eight-figure institutional and matching support tied to the founders' history there. A large share flows to a stable set of elite institutions inside named Simons collaborations, so entry usually comes through joining an existing collaboration or being recruited as an investigator rather than arriving cold.

200 grants matching “autism” · $64.9M

$5.1M
University of Edinburgh · 2024
A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
$4.2M
Clinical Research Associates · New York, NY · 2024
Autism research
$2.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024
Genetic contribution to autism
$1.1M
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - core
$914,008
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain
$709,977
Whitehead Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - core
$550,732
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2024
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 3
$485,706
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 2
$398,982
University of Toronto · 2024
A splicing code for elucidating genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder
$392,707
Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Platforms to accelerate development of aso therapeutics for haploinsufficiencies associated with autism
$392,666
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Putting genes associated with autism in their neurobiological context by transcriptomic and proteomic analyses
$387,547
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Identifying functionally convergent genetic factors associated with autism - project 1
$358,377
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 1
$343,343
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Identification of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism - project 1
$335,323
University of Michigan Flint · Flint, MI · 2024
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy of x-linked protocadherin 19 related autism and epilepsy
$330,720
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Population coding in sensory cortex in multiple mouse models of autism
$304,626
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Dissecting social attention in autism using large-sample eye tracking over the internet
$304,071
John Carroll University · University Heights, OH · 2024
Validation of an online neurobehavioral evaluation tool (net) across large autism cohorts
$299,271
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2024
Neural coordination mechanisms underlying social interactions in rat models of autism
$287,158
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Sfari clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$284,935
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Identifying functionally convergent genetic factors associated with autism
$280,001
Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 2
$261,860
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Quantitative motor phenotyping in nonsyndromic autism spectrum disorder and chromatin modifying disorders
$260,403
The Hospital for Sick Children · 2024
Investigating neural oscillations in early autism with innovative wearable meg
$250,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Actimetry-based study of sleep traits in autism spectrum disorder
$250,000
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Investigating mechanisms underlying perceptual integration in autism
$248,584
University of Stirling · 2024
The cortical head direction system as a model for systems-level alterations in three rat models of autism spectrum disorder/intellectual disability
$242,876
Fondazione Istituto Italiano · 2024
Decoding excitation-inhibition imbalance from neuroimaging data in autism
$240,153
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2024
Leveraging computational modeling and genomics to constrain the heterogeneity of autism phenotypes
$237,564
Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 3
$220,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Atlanta sparks for autism research
$220,000
Ucsd · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Establishing a san diego and southwest regional autism cohort
$220,000
Children'S Hospital Medical Center · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Cincinnati children's- simons sfari autism cohort submission
$220,000
Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Chop national autism cohort study
$220,000
Kennedy Krieger Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$220,000
University of Missouri St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
Thompson center clinical site for simons national autism cohort
$219,995
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
2019 simons foundation powering autism research for knowledge (spark) clinical site network - yale university
$213,743
University of Melbourne · 2024
Brain-wide mapping of sensory circuitry in zebrafish models of autism spectrum disorder
$209,631
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Uncovering phenotypic convergence across high-risk autism genes using forebrain assembloids
$207,563
Seattle Children'S Hospital · Seattle, WA · 2024
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$207,116
University of Nc Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures
$205,495
The Francis Crick Institute Ltd · 2024
Sineup rnas: a new platform for treating haploinsufficiency in autism spectrum disorders (asd)
$202,130
Nyu School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - core
$200,733
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Identifying the altered gene regulatory networks at single-cell resolution along the trajectory of brain development in autism spectrum disorders
$200,520
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Using network mapping to identify neuromodulation targets for agitation and aggression in autism spectrum disorder
$200,293
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Retrospective longitudinal characterization of gene expression changes in mouse models of autism
$200,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Understanding the epigenetic contribution to autism
$199,975
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2024
Identifying translational sleep biomarkers in autism
$199,892
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Identifying translational sleep biomarkers in autism
$199,677
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Identification and characterization of sex-differential risk mechanisms for autism
$197,405
Maine Medical Center · Portland, OR · 2024
Autism inpatient collection phase 4: increasing research access to the severely affected autism population through a deeply characterized recontactable cohort
$180,000
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024
Convergence of anti-cancer immunity and feto-maternal immune incompatibility in autism
$178,248
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 1
$172,258
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders
$172,146
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Cell village-based detection of shared molecular and cellular defects across autism risk factors
$166,667
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 2
$164,268
University of Regina · 2024
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 3
$161,921
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures - project 2
$157,499
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - project 1
$157,000
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2024
Computational phenotyping of individual variation in latent-state learning, generalization and attention across the autism spectrum
$150,000
McGill University · 2024
Mutations in the mrna translation regulators gigyf1/2 in autism spectrum disorder (asd)
$150,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2024
Oligodendrocyte dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders
$150,000
University of Nc Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Early life sleep disruption as a risk factor in autism spectrum disorder
$150,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Assessing functions of autism genes in deep layer neurons during primate midfetal development using knockdown-patch-seq
$149,857
Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Mitochondrial dysfunction as a genetic modifier in autism
$149,833
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Neuronal activity-dependent chromatin remodeling in autism neurobiology
$149,510
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
Integrated anatomical and gene expression phenotyping in autism spectrum disorders
$145,518
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Precise characterization of computational deficits in motor cognition in autism via corticocerebellar perturbations
$144,090
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures - project 1
$141,029
Achucarro Basque Center · 2024
Boosting myelination as a therapeutic strategy in autism
$140,745
King'S College London · 2024
Sensory biomarkers of core and associated symptoms of autism in preschool children with asd
$139,602
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Noninvasive focal closed-loop deep brain neuromodulation with transcranial ultrasound and source-localized electroencephalography for the treatment of behavioral inflexibility in autism spectrum disorder
$139,159
The Francis Crick Institute Ltd · 2024
Autism and the adapting auditory brain
$135,624
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Gut-brain communication and sensory processing in autism spectrum disorders
$130,500
Weill Cornell Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Multi-site validation study of eye tracking-based measure of autism symptom severity
$120,000
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Integrating human genetics and cellular biophysics to understand neuronal morphology, internal organization and dynamics, and the impact of autism
$117,500
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Disassembling behaviorally relevant cell assemblies in autism
$117,491
University of Texas · Dallas, TX · 2024
Dna methylation in brain development and autism spectrum disorders
$112,344
University Medical Center Hamburg · 2024
Decoding excitation-inhibition imbalance from neuroimaging data in autism - project 1
$109,474
Nationwide Children'S Hospital · Columbus, OH · 2024
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort at nch ohio
$108,192
University of Miami · Key Biscayne, FL · 2024
University of miami clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$96,000
Whitehead Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 1
$93,073
McGill University · 2024
The cortical head direction system as a model for systems-level alterations in three rat models of autism spectrum disorder/intellectual disability: project 1
$75,877
University of Nc Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Cortico-cerebellar communication during flexible motor control in mouse models of autism
$75,000
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Role of autism risk genes on frontal-sensory cognitive control circuit in mice
$75,000
The Color of Autism Foundation · Beverly Hills, MI · 2024
The color of autism foundation gift
$75,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Neural basis for observational learning in autism mouse models
$75,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
The role of superior colliculus in tactile sensory abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders
$50,000
Intl Society for Autism Res · Kansas City, MO · 2024
International society for autism research (insar)
$45,598
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Generation c - the impact of maternal covid-19 infection and inflammation on risk for autism spectrum disorder
$31,994
Scuola Internazionale Superiore · 2024
Visual cortical processing in autism: perceptual and neurophysiological alterations in a mutant rat model of autism spectrum disorder
$27,090
University of Surrey · 2024
Discovery science to map the common genetic architecture of fine and gross infant motor development in the context of neurodevelopment and autism
$13,200
University of Toronto · 2024
Rna-binding proteins in autism
$10,000
Gordon Research Conferences · West Kingston, RI · 2024
2024 fragile x and autism-related disorders grc
$5,000
Uc Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
Uc davis mind institute clinical site for national autism cohort
$5,000
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Boston children's hospital clinical site for the national autism cohort
$5,000
Oregon Health and Science · Portland, OR · 2024
Oregon spark: national autism cohort 50k
$4,988
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2024
Colorado clinical autism network site (c-can)
$4,879
University of Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2024
Mississippi collaborative autism cohort study (m-cacs)
$4,580
University of Nc Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Carolina spark: carolina site for the sfari national autism cohort
$2,500
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Seaver autism conference gift
$5.6M
University of Edinburgh · 2023
A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
$3.1M
Clinical Research Associates · New York, NY · 2023
Autism research
$2.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
Genetic contribution to autism
$1.2M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain
$846,293
Washington University in Stlouis · St Louis, MO · 2023
Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - core
$502,608
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2023
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 3
$499,575
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 1
$480,500
Weill Medical College of Cornell · New York, NY · 2023
Multi-site validation study of eye tracking-based measure of autism symptom severity
$477,105
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - project 2
$453,478
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2023
Identification of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism - project 1
$431,193
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Identifying the altered gene regulatory networks at single-cell resolution along the trajectory of brain development in autism spectrum disorders
$430,259
Nyu School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Genetic and molecular dissection of autism sex differences - core
$428,872
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Identifying functionally convergent genetic factors associated with autism
$400,000
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Preclinical assessment of allele specific antisense therapy in autism
$399,725
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Platforms to accelerate development of aso therapeutics for haploinsufficiencies associated with autism
$394,129
University of Toronto · 2023
A splicing code for elucidating genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder
$392,672
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Putting genes associated with autism in their neurobiological context by transcriptomic and proteomic analyses
$386,089
University of Cambridge · 2023
The autism prenatal sex differences (apex) program
$385,435
Maine Medical Center · Portland, ME · 2023
Autism inpatient collection phase 4: increasing research access to the severely affected autism population through a deeply characterized recontactable cohort
$359,981
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Identifying convergent neural circuit deficits in autism
$330,861
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy of x-linked protocadherin 19 related autism and epilepsy
$300,000
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
Convergence of anti-cancer immunity and feto-maternal immune incompatibility in autism
$298,672
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2023
Neural coordination mechanisms underlying social interactions in rat models of autism
$297,710
Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Neuronal activity-dependent chromatin remodeling in autism neurobiology
$293,809
John Carroll University · University Heights, OH · 2023
Validation of an online neurobehavioral evaluation tool (net) across large autism cohorts
$268,539
King'S College London · 2023
Sensory biomarkers of core and associated symptoms of autism in preschool children with asd
$253,785
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2023
Leveraging computational modeling and genomics to constrain the heterogeneity of autism phenotypes
$251,595
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 2
$250,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Actimetry-based study of sleep traits in autism spectrum disorder
$250,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Investigating mechanisms underlying perceptual integration in autism
$250,000
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
The role of feedback in speech in autism spectrum disorder: the missing perceptuomotor link
$244,752
Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Deciphering the roles of lncrna in neurodevelopment and autism
$242,365
University of Stirling · 2023
The cortical head direction system as a model for systems-level alterations in three rat models of autism spectrum disorder/intellectual disability
$241,087
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Neural activity and plasticity dynamics for reinforcement learning in autism
$240,439
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 3
$238,841
The Hospital for Sick Children · 2023
Investigating neural oscillations in early autism with innovative wearable meg
$238,139
Uc Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Quantitative motor phenotyping in nonsyndromic autism spectrum disorder and chromatin modifying disorders
$237,757
Iob · 2023
Embryonic circuit formation and the impact of autism relevant mutations and activity in vivo
$227,647
Uc Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Cell village-based detection of shared molecular and cellular defects across autism risk factors
$225,000
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2023
Computational phenotyping of individual variation in latent-state learning, generalization and attention across the autism spectrum
$214,952
Uc Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
A human brain organoid model of neural network dysregulation in autism
$214,408
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
Identification and characterization of sex-differential risk mechanisms for autism
$209,997
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - project 1
$200,000
Seattle Children'S Hospital · Seattle, WA · 2023
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$200,000
University of Missouri · Columbia, MO · 2023
Thompson center clinical site for simons national autism cohort
$200,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
2019 simons foundation powering autism research for knowledge (spark) clinical site network - yale university
$200,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Atlanta sparks for autism research
$200,000
Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Chop national autism cohort study
$200,000
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Establishing a san diego and southwest regional autism cohort
$200,000
Kennedy Krieger Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$200,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Understanding the epigenetic contribution to autism
$197,083
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Disassembling behaviorally relevant cell assemblies in autism
$194,272
Nationwide Children'S Hospital · Columbus, OH · 2023
Clinical site network for the national autism cohort at nch ohio
$192,295
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Dissecting social attention in autism using large-sample eye tracking over the internet
$190,369
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Uncovering phenotypic convergence across high-risk autism genes using forebrain assembloids
$189,290
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Annotated and accessible digital resource for the autism celloidin library
$188,844
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Using network mapping to identify neuromodulation targets for agitation and aggression in autism spectrum disorder
$187,967
Children'S Hospital Medical Center · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Cincinnati children's- simons sfari autism cohort submission
$185,398
University of Texas Southwestern · Dallas, TX · 2023
Dna methylation in brain development and autism spectrum disorders
$181,097
Italian Institute of Technology · 2023
Decoding excitation-inhibition imbalance from neuroimaging data in autism
$175,769
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders
$166,667
Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2023
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 2
$166,385
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures
$164,264
University of Regina · 2023
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 3
$163,570
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
High-resolution proteome mapping in the developing human cerebral cortex to uncover mutationally convergent pathways in autism spectrum disorders - project 1
$162,032
Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Harnessing the maternal immune system to prevent the development of autism-like phenotypes in offspring
$160,747
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Population coding in sensory cortex in multiple mouse models of autism
$158,966
Achucarro Basque Center · 2023
Boosting myelination as a therapeutic strategy in autism
$156,737
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures - project 2
$155,022
Washington State University · Pullman, WA · 2023
Understanding insomnia in the autism spectrum using mouse models
$150,000
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Early life sleep disruption as a risk factor in autism spectrum disorder
$150,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Neural basis for observational learning in autism mouse models
$150,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
Assessing functions of autism genes in deep layer neurons during primate midfetal development using knockdown-patch-seq
$150,000
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Tracking sensory signals across multiple cortical areas during impaired sensory perception in autism model mice
$150,000
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Role of autism risk genes on frontal-sensory cognitive control circuit in mice
$150,000
Weill Medical College of Cornell · New York, NY · 2023
Modeling deficiencies in autism-associated chromatin regulators during human neurogenesis using multipurpose degron alleles
$150,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
The role of superior colliculus in tactile sensory abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders
$150,000
Unc at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Cortico-cerebellar communication during flexible motor control in mouse models of autism
$148,604
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · 2023
The role of cortical feedback in autism
$147,958
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
The impact of autism gene mutations on vocalization neural circuits
$144,157
Unc at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Crispr/cas9-based early intervention for an autism spectrum disorder
$142,038
Nationwide Children'S Hospital · Columbus, OH · 2023
Optimization and validation of gene therapy using patient specific in vitro and in vivo models of slc6a1 related autism disorder
$137,733
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Genomic variation in centromeric proximal regions and risk of autism - project 1
$137,152
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures - project 1
$131,959
Macquarie University · 2023
Autism and the adapting auditory brain
$131,614
University of Toronto · 2023
Rna-binding proteins in autism
$126,240
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
High-throughput dissection of the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive inflexibility in autism
$120,000
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2023
Large-scale behavioral investigations of conversational alignment in adults with and without autism
$120,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Integrating human genetics and cellular biophysics to understand neuronal morphology, internal organization and dynamics, and the impact of autism
$117,974
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Computational phenotyping of attention, latent-state learning and generalization in subtypes of the autism spectrum - project 1
$113,420
University of Queensland (Uq) · 2023
Brain-wide mapping of sensory circuitry in zebrafish models of autism spectrum disorder
$112,344
University Medical Center Hamburg · 2023
Decoding excitation-inhibition imbalance from neuroimaging data in autism - project 1
$108,793
University of Trento · 2023
Sineup rnas: a new platform for treating haploinsufficiency in autism spectrum disorders (asd)
$107,785
Uc Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Sfari clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$99,914
European Molecular Biology Lab · 2023
Anomalous visual integration in autism
$96,574
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
University of miami clinical site network for the national autism cohort
$96,000
Whitehead Inst for Biomedical Res · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Autism, sex differences, and microglia - project 1
$94,685
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2023
Integrated anatomical and gene expression phenotyping in autism spectrum disorders
$91,549
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Generation c - the impact of maternal covid-19 infection and inflammation on risk for autism spectrum disorder

Top recipients

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

New York Genome Center6 grants · $40.9M
University of California San Diego38 grants · $34.1M
MIT141 grants · $30.2M
Stony Brook Foundation19 grants · $28.4M
Columbia University142 grants · $22.5M
New York University89 grants · $20.9M
New York Genome Center3 grants · $20.5M
Uc San Diego43 grants · $20.4M
Princeton University111 grants · $19.5M
Math for America1 grant · $19.0M

Giving over time

$300.9M

2022

$283.8M

2023

$261.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 5,303 grants.

$26.5M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Simons observatory
$20.0M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024
New york genome center 2018 "new gift"
$20.0M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2023
New york genome center 2018 "new gift"
$20.0M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2022
New york genome center 2018 "new gift"
$19.0M
Math for America · New York, NY · 2022
Mfa new pledge
$12.8M
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Simons observatory
$7.9M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2022
Presidential innovation and excellence fund matching gift
$6.7M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024
Simons infinity investment matching gift
$5.6M
University of Edinburgh · 2023
A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
$5.1M
University of Edinburgh · 2024
A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
$4.8M
University of Edinburgh · 2022
A major programme of fundamental and clinical autism research
$4.5M
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Simons institute for the theory of computing
$4.4M
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Simons center for computational physical chemistry
$4.4M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
Presidential innovation and excellence fund matching gift
$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
$4.0M
National Museum of Mathematics · New York, NY · 2023
Momath capital campaign matching pledge
$3.9M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Simons institute for the theory of computing
$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
$3.3M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
Applications of genomics to breast cancer detection, risk assessment and treatment response
$3.2M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Applications of genomics to breast cancer detection, risk assessment and treatment response
$3.2M
Clinical Research Associates · New York, NY · 2022
Autism research
$3.1M
Clinical Research Associates · New York, NY · 2023
Autism research
$3.1M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024
Presidential innovation and excellence fund matching gift
$3.0M
Institute for Advanced Study · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Institute for advanced study (ias) unrestricted gift
$2.9M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
Simons math/physics operating fund
$2.9M
Ucsf · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd
$2.6M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2022
Simons math/physics operating fund
$2.6M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Array project 3
$2.5M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
Scgp current use fund
$2.5M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2022
Scgp current use fund
$2.2M
Hautes Etudes Scientifiques · 2024
Operating support
$2.1M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Genetic contribution to autism
$2.1M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Scope-uw operations support
$2.0M
University of Cambridge · 2022
The autism prenatal sex differences (apex) program
$2.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024
Genetic contribution to autism
$2.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
Genetic contribution to autism
$1.9M
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2023
National institute for theory and mathematics in biology
$1.8M
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Array project 3
$1.7M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Simons center for computational physical chemistry
$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
Univ of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd
$1.5M
Research Foundation of the Cuny · New York City, NY · 2024
Cuny masters in astrophysics bridge program
$1.4M
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2022
The new simons center for the social brain
$1.3M
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Computational biogeochemical modeling of marine ecosystems
$1.3M
Eth Zurich · 2024
Prime - principles of microbial ecosystems
$1.3M
Esther & Joseph Klingenstein Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Klingenstein-simons fellowship awards in the neurosciences
$1.3M
Esther & Joseph Klingenstein Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Klingenstein-simons fellowship awards in the neurosciences
$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
$1.3M
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Planetary context of habitability and exobiology
$1.3M
Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scient · 2022
Operating support
$1.2M
University of Hawaii · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Scope-uh operations support
$1.2M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain
$1.2M
University of Hawaii · Honolulu, HI · 2023
Scope-uh operations support
$1.1M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Simons junior faculty fellows
$1.1M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Ultra-quantum matter
$1.1M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
Stony brook simons stem scholars program
$1.1M
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Arithmetic geometry, number theory, and computation
$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
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Nsf-simons southeast center for mathematics and biology
$1.0M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Nsf-simons center for mathematical and statistical analysis of biology
$1.0M
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Planetary context of habitability and exobiology
$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
$1.0M
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
New york climate exchange fund matching pledge
$1.0M
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Collaboration on the theoretical foundations of deep learning
$1.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Cshl cancer research gift
$1.0M
Ecole Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaus · New York, NY · 2022
Computational oncology program
$999,342
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Nsf-simons southeast center for mathematics and biology
$998,293
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Arithmetic geometry, number theory, and computation
$988,360
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Arxiv operating grant
$976,985
Uc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Anatomical, molecular, and systems approaches to elucidate the mechanism of sex bias in the asd
$958,610
Research Foundation of Cuny · New York, NY · 2023
Cuny masters in astrophysics bridge program
$953,149
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Data and tools to define the biogeography of marine phytoplankton
$948,145
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Arithmetic geometry, number theory, and computation
$937,500
Rutgers State University of Nj · Piscataway, NJ · 2023
Simons junior faculty fellows
$914,085
University of Kwazulu-Natal Durban · 2023
The hydrogen intensity and real-time analysis experiment (hirax)
$914,008
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain
$900,675
Institute for Advanced Study · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Simons bridge for postdoctoral fellowships at ias
$890,169
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Computational biogeochemical modeling of marine ecosystems
$884,750
Life Sciences Research Foundation · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Life sciences research foundation fellowships
$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
$846,293
Washington University in Stlouis · St Louis, MO · 2023
Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism - core
$830,226
Uc Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Topology of cortical and thalamic gene expression in asd
$825,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Collaborative research: transferable, hierarchical, expressive, optimal, robust, interpretable networks (theorinet)
$810,000
MIT · Cambridge, MA · 2023
The new simons center for the social brain
$808,494
University of Texas Southwestern · Dallas, TX · 2023
Cellular resolution multi-omics of white matter tracts in asd
$794,685
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024
Stony brook simons stem scholars program
$772,090
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Support for arxiv mmodernization
$770,284
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Simons-nyu science explorations program
$750,146
Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2023
Simons junior faculty fellows
$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
$750,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
The role of microbiomes in shaping the ecology and evolution of tropical forest ecosystems
$750,000
Uc Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023
The simons fund for visiting scientists at the kavli institute of theoretical physics

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