Richard Lounsbery Foundation

What they fund

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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.

2 grants matching “excavation” · $105,000

• $15,000

  Leonardo Da Vinci Heritage Association · 2024

  Tuscan excavations related to leonardo da vinci's biological traces

• $90,000

  Submerged Archaeological Conservancy International (Saci) · Tallahassee, FL · 2023

  The kingston harbour archaeological project: excavation of french naval frigate junon (1780), st vincent and the grenadines

Top recipients

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

• National Academy of Sciences7 grants · $622,663
• American Philosophical Society1 grant · $399,300
• Academie Des Sciences3 grants · $390,000
• Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation Nato Science and Tech Org1 grant · $300,000
• Institute of International Education (Iie)1 grant · $300,000
• Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation1 grant · $300,000
• Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress3 grants · $280,000
• Internet Archive3 grants · $260,000
• New York University2 grants · $257,736
• Center for Strategic & International Studies1 grant · $250,000

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 220 grants.

• $399,300

  American Philosophical Society · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Americas scientific revolutionaries: programming to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence

• $300,000

  Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation Nato Science and Tech Org · 2023

  Empowering nato to help maintain its military and technological edge to face current and future security challenges

• $300,000

  Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation · 2022

  Empowering nato's technological edge: environmental dimensions

• $300,000

  Institute of International Education (Iie) · New York, NY · 2022

  Scholar rescue fund: support threatened and displaced scholars from ukraine and russia

• $250,000

  Center for Strategic & International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

  Understanding and strengthening us-latin america educational exchange from a public diplomacy perspective

• $250,000

  Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress · Washington, DC · 2024

  Celebrating american innovation over the past 250 years

• $210,000

  Columbia University Teachers College · New York, NY · 2024

  1776: seedtime of american education - programming to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence

• $200,000

  Biobus · New York, NY · 2025

  Launching biobus's mobile science labs in new england

• $200,000

  Alumnusb (Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America Inc) · Waltham, MA · 2024

  Inter-institutional collaboration project for early career scientists from argentina, uruguay, chile and bolivia in the fields of science and technology

• $200,000

  French-American Cultural Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support for french film project aimed at creating awareness in the u.s. About the vulnerability of the polynesian atoll ecosystems

• $200,000

  President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Who are the people of early medieval france

• $200,000

  Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2023

  Earths history smithsonian sciences education academy for teachers in st. Paul, minnesota

• $200,000

  American Councils for International Education · Washington, DC · 2022

  Visiting scholar program: displaced ukrainian and russian academic fellowships

• $200,000

  Biobus · New York, NY · 2022

  Bridging a gap in biobus funding and planning for the future

• $200,000

  Univ Buenos Aires and National Research Council of Argentina (Conicet) · 2022

  Supporting an argentine lab working towards a more precise combined therapy of spinal muscular atrophy using an epigenetic crispr strategy

• $199,525

  The Halo Trust (USA) · Washington, DC · 2025

  Next-generation detection and the application of machine learning to landmine clearance

• $198,827

  University Court of the University of St Andrew'S College Gate · 2023

  Extending the value of ctbto acoustic measurements for environmental concerns

• $183,013

  American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2023

  Cosmic view of life on earth, part 2

• $175,230

  Friends of Ecole Normale Superieure · Timonium, MD · 2025

  Bridging computational gaps to tackle epidemic spread

• $165,000

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

  Building a globally synchronized passive acoustic monitoring experiment

• $159,343

  University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2022

  Wastewater system installation and education in the alabama black belt

• $152,630

  University of Rhode Island · Kingston, RI · 2024

  Support for building a new coalition of us oceanographic institutions to address critical ocean science challenges of today

• $150,000

  President and Fellows of Middlebury College James Martin Center for Nonprol · Middlebury, VT · 2025

  Building global nuclear security expertise:the cns visiting fellows program

• $150,000

  Interspecies Io · Dover, DE · 2024

  Supporting our understanding and appreciation of the communication systems of other species

• $150,000

  Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for bioice-exploring: looking for biological markers in ice cores to uncover ecosystem response to change

• $150,000

  The Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for an exhibition about jewish visual culture in colonial america and the revolution

• $150,000

  Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Advancing a library in a time of war

• $150,000

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023

  Conflict, science diplomacy and development of early career scientific networks in eastern europe

• $146,636

  New York University · New York, NY · 2022

  Art bio matters 2023 to promote the study and scientific analysis of biological materials in cultural heritage

• $140,497

  Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress · Washington, DC · 2022

  France, the united states, and understanding russia: a comparative reflection

• $140,300

  Perpignan University (Upvd) Cefrem · 2022

  Building the foundation of a global library of underwater biological sounds (glubs)

• $140,000

  Resources for the Future · Washington, DC · 2025

  Lowering expectations of the size of human population

• $135,000

  African Diaspora Scientists Federation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023

  Mobilizing diaspora scientists to contribute to training of african students in science

• $135,000

  National Coast Guard Museum Association · New London, CT · 2022

  Support for youth education program at new national coast guard museum

• $133,490

  Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2023

  Trilateral nato working group on future of arms control

• $131,165

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2025

  Richard lounsbery award

• $130,000

  Academie Des Sciences Institut De France · 2025

  From enlightenment to ai: 250 years of scientific revolutions across the atlantic podcast series

• $130,000

  Academie Des Sciences · 2024

  Richard lounsbery award

• $130,000

  Academie Des Sciences · 2023

  Richard lounsbery french-american scientific symposium 2024 and alumni network

• $130,000

  Academie Des Sciences · 2022

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• $125,000

  Albertine Foundation · New York, NY · 2025

  Lafayette fellowship

• $125,000

  Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2025

  Rlf french-american fellowship, dr. A. Laudrain

• $125,000

  Friends of Cs · Red Hook, NY · 2025

  Celebrating america's 250th with scholarships to study at u.s. Universities

• $125,000

  Institut Du Cerveau Et De La Moelle Epiniere · 2025

  Rlf french-american fellowship, dr. A. Levine

• $125,000

  The University of Alabamam Alabama Water Institute · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2025

  Determining needs to build the northern gulf of america coastal observatory

• $125,000

  Universite Grenoble Alpes · 2025

  Rlf french-american fellowship, dr. A. Looby

• $125,000

  Alex Foundation · Swampscott, MA · 2024

  Comparing grey parrots' intelligence to that of human children and adults

• $125,000

  The Alexander Hamilton Society · Washington, DC · 2024

  1776: studying the beginnings of the american republic's early foreign policy

• $125,000

  Journal of Emerging Investigators · Chandler, AZ · 2023

  Eirxiv: emerging science by emerging scientists- the first preprint server for pre-college students' scientific research papers

• $125,000

  New Parnassus Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2022

  Seed funding for a new opera about napoleon exploring alternative historical outcomes

• $124,250

  Women in International Security · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support for women in international security: a data-driven approach

• $123,733

  Authors Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  Preventing digital obscurity by lowering legal obstacles to stem publications

• $120,000

  Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

  Support to develop a free, online high-quality economics textbook

• $120,000

  Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of American · Waltham, MA · 2023

  Short internships to scientific laboratories in latin american and caribbean countries for early career scientists from colombia and venezuela

• $118,500

  Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union · Mount Vernon, VA · 2022

  Continuing to tell the story of chastellux

• $115,000

  Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America · Waltham, MA · 2024

  Scholarships for students and faculty in venezuela in the natural sciences at usb

• $111,800

  National Autonomous University of Mexico · 2022

  Binational collaborative effort to study ancient human viral pathogens

• $111,100

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Advancing digital rights in library communities

• $110,873

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Dna Learning Center · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022

  Videos and animations to explain environmental dna to a broad audience

• $110,000

  Crdf Global · Arlington, VA · 2023

  Preservation of the collection of incunabula of the vasyl stefanyk lviv national scientific library of ukraine

• $110,000

  Face Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

  Transatlantic research partnership to support collaboration between early career researchers in the us and france

• $110,000

  Face Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

  Transatlantic research partnership

• $105,000

  Academie Des Sciences Institut De France · 2025

  Exhibition on modern microbiology at louis pasteurs house in arbois, france

• $100,617

  The Trustees of the Smith College · North Hampton, MA · 2024

  Preparing undergraduate women for advanced summer internships in computational and applied mathematics

• $100,401

  Seti Institute · Mountain View, CA · 2024

  Satellite impacts and community astronomy network (sican): support to harness a global network of citizen scientists to monitor satellites

• $100,000

  International Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

  Documentary: bridging oppenheimer's vision of global cooperation through film

• $100,000

  Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2025

  Archiving us government web and dataset material

• $100,000

  Kennan Institute · Washington, DC · 2025

  Restoring the kennan institute for advanced russian studies

• $100,000

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2025

  Initiative to develop a joint israelarab science fellowship

• $100,000

  Trust for the National Mall · Washington, DC · 2025

  The restoration of lafayette park

• $100,000

  University of Alabama Alabama Materials Institute · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2025

  Immersive stem experience in materials science for teachers

• $100,000

  Trustees of Harvard · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Translating a course about science of optics in the visual arts for the general public

• $100,000

  D-Fi USA · North Haven, CT · 2023

  "d-fi usa: leading a sustainable nonprofit supporting the french"science diaspora in the us"

• $100,000

  Dreams With No Limits · Saint Albans, NY · 2023

  Dreams with no limits: seed funds for stem programs for nyc male youth

• $100,000

  Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (Ibyme) · 2022

  Supporting science in argentina: galectins as anti-viral and anti-inflammatory agents for sars

• $100,000

  World Monuments Fund Rockefeller Center · New York, NY · 2022

  Ukraine cultural heritage response fund

• $99,994

  Nelson Mandela University · 2025

  Promoting african leadership in deep-water exploration

• $99,935

  Sorbonne Universite Cellf · 2025

  Studies of the part of diderot's encyclopedie concerned with technology and production

• $98,112

  Agence Neo-Caledonienne De La Biodiversite · 2025

  Increasing understanding of groups of species unique to french islands of the south pacific

• $97,750

  Cientifco Latino · South Ozone Park, NY · 2025

  Year 2 of seed funding for cientifco latino, inc.

• $94,990

  Hudson River Park Trust · New York, NY · 2025

  Lower hudson river edna partnership

• $92,539

  University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology · 2022

  Exploring paper documents as a biomolecular archive

• $90,000

  Submerged Archaeological Conservancy International (Saci) · Tallahassee, FL · 2023

  The kingston harbour archaeological project: excavation of french naval frigate junon (1780), st vincent and the grenadines

• $87,265

  The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

  Naval documents of the american revolution documentary editing project

• $84,098

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023

  Richard lounsbery award

• $80,000

  Sea Search Research and Conservation Npc · 2023

  Making africa heard by growing the african bioacoustics community

• $78,591

  Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

  Dna analysis of cultural heritage

• $75,000

  Geopedis Association · 2024

  The starry walk - a documentary film inspired by a 6 week walking and driving adventure under the sky of california to educate the public about the dangers of light pollution.

• $75,000

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023

  Engaging the stemm community to address human rights challenges

• $72,400

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023

  The national academy of sciences in the american democracy: a history: 1863-2013

• $70,000

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2025

  Inspiring lives in sciences: conversations with role-model biologists

• $70,000

  Indiana University · Kokomo, IN · 2024

  Making renaissance florentine burial records freely accessible online for historical and medical scholarship

• $69,035

  Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2025

  The archival lives of lewis thomas: a biographical inquiry

• $60,000

  Russian-American Science Association (Rasa) Corp · Brookline, MA · 2025

  To enhance networking of russian diaspora scientists

• $60,000

  Institute of Hydro-Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences · 2024

  Studying leonardo da vinci's drawings to understand flow forensic analysis using modern experimental techniques

• $60,000

  Resources USA · Alexandria, VA · 2023

  U.s. High school french language competition celebrating 200 years of franco-american friendship

• $60,000

  Skype a Scientist · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Lowering barriers to science access for global students and philadelphians of all ages

• $55,914

  New York University Grossman School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for research laboratory of department of cell biology and dr. David sabatini

• $55,000

  The Cayuga Bird Club · Ithaca, NY · 2023

  The new world of senses- a book about the latest science of the senses

• $54,500

  Humanus Documentary Films Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  Jazz in paris documentary - the franco-american joy of swing

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