The Patrick J McGovern Foundation

Recent grants

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

• $1.5M

  United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) · 2024

  To advance ethical ai governance through civil society networks, policy frameworks, and knowledge resources.

• $1.5M

  World Resources Institute · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To expand wris data lab for climate-focused ai innovation and global data accessibility.

• $1.5M

  Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024

  To refine an ai tool for evaluating natural climate solutions projects, build ai literacy within the conservation community, and explore new use cases for ai in conservation

• $1.3M

  The Aspen Institute · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To enhance public understanding and policy discourse around ai.

• $1.1M

  Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2024

  To support the charitable purpose and activities of public charities

• $1.1M

  The Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024

  To support the charitable purpose and activities of public charities

• $1.0M

  Public Interest Technology (Pit) Infrastructure Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To support nsfs responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies (redddot) program.

• $1.0M

  Breaktime · Boston, MA · 2024

  To promote tech-enabled crisis readiness through sustainable support for young adults experiencing housing insecurity.

• $1.0M

  Blue Star Families · Encinitas, CA · 2024

  To integrate ai-driven technologies into blue star families platform, enhancing military families engagement and resource access.

• $1.0M

  Trust and Safety Tooling Hub · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To scalably deliver open-source trust and safety tools to companies of all sizes.

• $750,000

  Audere · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To develop an ai toolkit to enable the creation of customized, locally relevant ai tools and datasets

• $750,000

  Room To Read · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance literacy and gender equality outcomes through enhanced technology and data integration.

• $750,000

  Open Climate Fix Ltd · 2024

  To expand the use of ml-enabled renewable energy forecasting in india

• $750,000

  Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024

  To support the next phase of tnc's electronic monitoring innovation work.

• $750,000

  Climate Policy Radar · 2024

  To support cpr's development of ai tools for advanced climate policy analysis and global legislative insights.

• $750,000

  The American Ai Forum · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For support to close the opportunity gap in ai education, literacy, and skills development.

• $750,000

  Generation - You Employed · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To support generation's ai-enhanced curriculum for tech career access and economic mobility.

• $750,000

  Amnesty International · 2024

  To support amnestys algorithmic accountability lab to mobilize and empower civil society to evaluate ai systems and pursue accountability for ai-driven harms

• $750,000

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Wbcsd) · 2024

  To deepen the adoption and implementation of the pact technical standard

• $690,000

  Climate Arc · Dover, DE · 2024

  To advance the use of ai-tools in climate data analysis and improve the accuracy of net-zero transition assessments.

• $650,000

  Nexleaf Analytics · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To develop a holistic mis for connected devices in clinics and hospitals to support cultures of data use within health systems

• $650,000

  Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2024

  To advance data-driven food waste reduction strategies using ai and ml

• $600,000

  Malaria No More Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To provide direct support for ai-enabled, climate-smart data platform for malaria control and support data-driven decision-making within the ministry of health in indonesia

• $600,000

  Oceanmind · 2024

  To support oceanmind's global tracking of fossil fuel movements and enhance emissions transparency.

• $600,000

  The Marshall Project · New York, NY · 2024

  To expand the reach and impact of the investigate this! Initiative, a critical resource for enhancing local journalism on criminal justice issues across the -

• $600,000

  Open Supply Hub · Hudson, NY · 2024

  To scale os hub's platform and integrate climate trace emissions data for enhanced supply chain transparency

• $600,000

  Newpublic · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To launch ai tools that foster vibrant media ecosystems and explore ai use-cases for digital community platforms

• $550,000

  Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team - · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To advance hot's fair initiative, enhancing ai-assisted, community-driven mapping for vulnerable global regions.

• $500,000

  Center for Ai and Digital Policy (Caidp) · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To support the development and implementation of ai policies that promote a just, fair, and accountable society

• $500,000

  Cyberpeace Institute · 2024

  To enhance the cyberpeace institutes ai-driven cybersecurity initiatives

• $500,000

  Ffwd (Fast Forward) · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To build ai capacity and awareness throughout the tech for good ecosystem

• $500,000

  Environmental Policy Innovation Center (Epic) · College Park, MD · 2024

  To advance environmental data and technology adoption across federal agencies, building critical capacity for climate-positive decision-making.

• $500,000

  Brookings Institution · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To support the ai equity lab in developing and publicizing recommendations that advance the public interest

• $500,000

  Cascade Climate · Somerville, MA · 2024

  To launch a data sharing system for open-system cdr data and publish learnings from the data

• $500,000

  American Journalism Project · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To expand ai tools and training for nonprofit newsrooms through the product & ai studio.

• $500,000

  Digital Medicine Society · Boston, MA · 2024

  To partner with dihi on the implementation of fit-for-purpose ai solutions in low-resource health systems.

• $500,000

  Common Sense Media · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To expand and unify common sense medias ai ratings across platforms, and develop ai literacy tools for safer digital environments.

• $500,000

  Benetech · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

  To refine technology to convert classroom stem materials into accessible formats and create an ai reading companion for students with disabilities

• $500,000

  Creative Commons · Mountain View, CA · 2024

  To enhance the accessibility, sharing, and reuse of open climate data to address the climate crisis.

• $500,000

  Insupply Health Ltd · 2024

  To use ai to enhance supply chain functions for improved efficiency and effectiveness

• $500,000

  Ja Worldwide · Boston, MA · 2024

  To strengthen ai literacy among young people and transform impact reporting with genai

• $500,000

  Jhpiego Corporation · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  To expand healthtech hub africas impact in health tech innovation.

• $500,000

  Learning Equality · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  To build ai literacy and enable learning continuity in low-connectivity settings

• $500,000

  Meedan · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To use ml to help media organizations collaboratively respond to misinformation with verified fact checks

• $500,000

  News Revenue Hub · San Diego, CA · 2024

  To expand ai-driven advertising and sponsorship models, enhancing revenue for local journalism.

• $500,000

  Noora Health · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To develop ai tools to support home health caregivers in global majority countries

• $500,000

  Ona Systems · 2024

  To improve and prepare onas open-source electronic health record platform, opensrp2, for further scale.

• $500,000

  Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (Oecd) · 2024

  To support further development of the oecds ai index to guide and inform policy across member countries.

• $500,000

  Quillorg · New York, NY · 2024

  To design quill's ai literacy curriculum and train instructional models to provide automated feedback

• $500,000

  Reach University · Alameda, CA · 2024

  To expand ai and cs literacy through comprehensive teacher training programs.

• $500,000

  Recidiviz · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support ai-product roadmap to reduce incarceration and support policymakers in ethically using ai

• $500,000

  Standearth · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To enhance ai-driven tools for tracking environmental impacts of deforestation and fossil fuel financing.

• $500,000

  Supporting Initiatives To Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum) · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

  To increase scalability of data-driven surplus medicine redistribution through automation and technology

• $500,000

  Technovation · Menlo Park, CA · 2024

  To further technovation's mission to empower girls with tech skills through ai and entrepreneurship programs.

• $500,000

  The George Washington University · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To enable the creation of scalable and community-driven healthy corner store programs to improve food access and health outcomes in underserved communities

• $500,000

  University of California Berkeley · Berkely, CA · 2024

  To advance data science capacity and innovation in togo through the establishment of a data lab

• $450,000

  Intelehealth · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  To refine ai models for clinical decision support in resource-constrained settings

• $450,000

  Polaris · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To pilot ai use cases to generate insights from human trafficking data and implement survivor-centered data governance

• $450,000

  Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (Find) · 2024

  To advance standards and capacity for improved health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

• $450,000

  Trek Medics International · San Diego, CA · 2024

  To advance emergency response capabilities through ai-driven enhancements in the beacon crisis dispatch platform

• $425,000

  Carbonplan · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To increase accountability in the voluntary carbon market and enable rapid, transparent data-sharing in the cdr market

• $400,000

  Maisha Meds · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To enhance healthcare delivery through advanced forecasting, patient engagement, and data integration

• $400,000

  Institute for Security and Technology · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To advance cross-sector efforts to evaluate and mitigate potential risks associated with the advancement of llms

• $400,000

  Jacaranda Health · 2024

  To optimize prompts ai infrastructure and integrate multilingual llms to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes in kenya and sub-saharan africa

• $400,000

  Kode With Klossy · New York, NY · 2024

  To equip gen z women with the skills to become informed creators and responsible consumers of ai.

• $400,000

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To support the jameel clinic in utilizing machine learning for risk stratification of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms to prevent the development of invasive pancreatic cancer

• $400,000

  Gigafact · Redwood City, CA · 2024

  To develop and deploy an ai political claims database in swing states

• $400,000

  Huridocs · 2024

  To use machine learning to enhance human rights data management and advocacy

• $400,000

  Open Contracting Partnership · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To expand ocp's data-driven procurement models to new regions.

• $400,000

  Open Function Group · Boulder, CO · 2024

  To utilize generative ai to streamline data integration workflows and empower non-technical users

• $400,000

  Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To enhance investigative journalism through the development and deployment of advanced data-sharing technologies and collaborative frameworks.

• $400,000

  Pacific Community · 2024

  To support the second phase of deps efforts to enhance digital infrastructure and data access in the pacific.

• $400,000

  Digital Green Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance tools for small-scale farmers to share and access data to improve climate resilience

• $400,000

  Ras Ai Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support the development of the living nature machine project, the world's first publicly available generative ai tool designed to compile and interpret vast amounts of nature data

• $400,000

  Clinton Health Access Initiative · Boston, MA · 2024

  To develop and implement the automated visual evaluation (ave) tool for cervical cancer screening.

• $400,000

  Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  To enhance civil liberties and promote justice through strategic litigation and advocacy using ai and data analytics.

• $400,000

  Science for All Foundationequitech Futures · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support equitech futures' applied data institute, civil tech institute, and tech for impact research fellowships

• $400,000

  Caremessage · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support ai-enabled product roadmap for clinic-patient communications

• $400,000

  D-Tree International · Norwell, MA · 2024

  To support an ai-enabled continuum of care in zanzibar

• $400,000

  Data Science 4 Everyone · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To continue advancing k-12 data science education and enhance parent and community engagement

• $400,000

  Friends of King'S College London Association · New York, NY · 2024

  To develop a data empowerment clinic to train communities on managing and governing their data, and to test technical mechanisms to enable public participation in ai design

• $395,000

  Open Knowledge Foundation · 2024

  To enhance data literacy and accessibility through the open data editor, a no-code tool for non-technical users.

• $364,000

  Clear Global · Garden City, ID · 2024

  To enable scalable, multilingual, voice-powered communication and information channels for crisis-affected communities

• $350,000

  Open Earth Foundation · Marina Del Ray, CA · 2024

  To advance ai-driven urban climate action and data accessibility through the citycatalyst platform.

• $350,000

  Tiny News Collective · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  To enable ai-enhanced data tools and coaching programs for sustainable local journalism.

• $350,000

  Thorn · El Segundo, CA · 2024

  To support the creation of guardrails that reduce the risks of csam proliferation created by generative ai.

• $350,000

  Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

  To scale and grow the supply trace platform and organizational structure.

• $350,000

  Data-Pop Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  To advance the open algorithms for humanitarian action platform.

• $350,000

  Climate Collective · New York, NY · 2024

  To support climate collectives launch of the ai for climate and nature incubator

• $350,000

  Kqed · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To sustain and expand climate data journalism efforts across california and strengthen data literacy among local journalists

• $300,000

  The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2024

  To support chais partnership with hl7 and working groups to advance responsible ai in healthcare

• $300,000

  Healthai · 2024

  To build a global repository and regulatory network for validated ai for health solutions.

• $300,000

  Mysociety · 2024

  To enhance the local intelligence hub and amplify public data collaboration for scalable solutions

• $300,000

  Hack Foundation · West Hollywood, CA · 2024

  To enable hack club's teen-led expansion of ai education through jams, workshops, and hackathons.

• $300,000

  Unlocked Labs · Saint Louis, MO · 2024

  To leverage data to accelerate decarceration through earned credit release laws and improve educational opportunities for people in prison

• $300,000

  National Fair Housing Alliance · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To develop methods and tools to test for and mitigate racial bias at the intersection of ai and access to housing

• $300,000

  Berkeley Earth · Berkley, CA · 2024

  To enhance localized climate projections for accurate, city-specific climate resilience planning.

• $300,000

  All Tech Is Human · New York, NY · 2024

  To drive responsible ai through corporate partnerships, policy resources, and multi-city convenings.

• $300,000

  News Product Alliance Corporation · Austin, TX · 2024

  To advance the development and implementation of ai-driven tools and frameworks to support local and nonprofit news organizations in adopting ai technology

• $300,000

  Paris Peace Forum · 2024

  To support the 2024 paris peace forum and advance ai governance