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Laura and John Arnold Foundation

$754.5M
in grants paid: 2,588
grants: 629
recipients: 2020–2024
filing years

Recent grants

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

$12.5M
The City Fund · Beaverton, OR · 2024
To provide general operating support to support grantee's efforts to partner with local leaders to create innovative public school systems, with the overall goal of improving the quality of public education in cities ac…
$5.0M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024
To support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its research and policymakers; (ii) building a …
$3.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, translating findings into actionable insights…
$3.3M
Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Nashville, TN · 2024
To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.
$3.0M
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2024
To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.
$3.0M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of social programs and policies.
$2.0M
Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and facilitate rigorous evaluation of reimagined housing units for incarcerated young adults in a way that center…
$2.0M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To continue to develop and publicly disseminate policy options to regulate and control drug spending.
$2.0M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024
To support grantee's center on health insurance reforms in providing policymakers and key stakeholders with educational resources and non-partisan technical assistance to support effective cost containment strategies.
$1.9M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To expand pwbm's ability to provide accurate, accessible, and transparent budget and economic analysis of public policy by providing more access to the model and data while deepening the model's capabilities.
$1.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To construct a cyclotron facility and procuring the installation of the first 30 mev proton beam within the cyclotron facility.
$1.5M
The Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.
$1.5M
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support grantee's work in bringing greater attention and visibility to hospital and health system spending, prices, finance, and business practices that impact access to care and lead to higher costs for families, em…
$1.4M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.
$1.3M
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024
To support fiscal policy work related to tax and budget policy.
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the state and local innovation initiative ("slii") of grantee's abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america.
$1.2M
Terner Housing Innovation Labs · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support (1) the scaling of grantee's housing supply simulator tool to new states and municipalities to assist policymakers and researchers in determining the market effects of individual land use policies and (2) pub…
$1.1M
Project On Predatory Student Lending · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support.
$1.1M
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
To support and expand grantee's gun policy in america initiative which provides the public, policymakers, and journalists with needed information on the effects of gun policies.
$1.1M
American University · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the postsecondary equity and economics research ("peer") project and its efforts on accountability and student loan research, policy development and technical assistance.
$1.1M
West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education · Charleston, WV · 2024
To support the expansion of the city university of new york's accelerated study in associate programs program in two west virginia community colleges.
$1.0M
Fwdus Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support policy analysis, advocacy, and education work to safely reduce prison terms, recidivism, and the incarcerated population, reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and expand opportunities for…
$1.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support welcoming neighbors network education fund, and its efforts to remove regulatory barriers to expand the supply of housing across a diverse array of states and municipalities through educational and non-partis…
$1.0M
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support grantee's second chances agenda, which aims to build support at the state and federal levels for evidence-based sentencing reforms and second chance release mechanisms through an integrated policy development…
$1.0M
Metropolitan Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the immediate maintenance and transition of the rapid employment and development initiative (readi), a causal evidence-backed program designed to reduce violent crime and recidivism.
$1.0M
The Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on promoting meaningful clinical trials.
$1.0M
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support new research and data analysis to inform forthcoming policy discussions related to medicare sustainability and affordability in four areas: 1) medicare advantage; 2) medicare spending, financing, and affordab…
$978,913
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the transit costs project at grantee's marron institute and its efforts to (1) further advance research in the causes of high costs and delays in u.s. Transit projects and (2) support more direct policy engag…
$945,308
Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a pilot evaluation on the adoption of counsel at first appearance in virginia.
$900,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To be used by the policing project at grantee's school of law to develop and promote publicly available and nonpartisan model legislation governing key aspects of policing at the local, state, and federal levels, with t…
$900,000
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024
To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.
$878,275
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To generate evidence on emerging issues in medicare advantage of interest to policymakers, specifically 1) affinity plans and 2) ghost networks, to inform policy discussions and bolster arguments for reforms to reduce o…
$850,000
For the People · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support implementation of prosecutor-initiated resentencing ("pir") nationally, resulting in prosecutors offices implementing the law effectively and improved assistance for incarcerated people returning home through…
$833,262
National Conference of State Legislatures · Denver, CO · 2024
To raise awareness in state legislatures on criminal justice data and causal research, to increase knowledge of policy options, and support legislator-driven policy change.
$812,502
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
To provide technical assistance for states implementing pharmaceutical policy interventions that lower drug prices.
$802,165
Ah Datalytics · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To build and develop the real-time crime index ("rtci"), an infrastructure for regularly collecting data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies and creating a publicly accessible dataset and accompanying visualizatio…
$800,000
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct credible research, analyze policy proposals, and provide in-depth technical assistance to federal policymakers to advance common-sense reforms in the medicare advantage program.
$800,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To establish a collaborative of foremost experts on dual-eligible research to provide policy-responsive analyses on integration between medicare and medicaid.
$795,000
The Good Nation Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To advance the successful implementation of health policy changes that are taking place to support individuals' well-being as they leave incarceration, and inform the development of future federal policy reforms.
$789,000
The Regents of the University of California San Diego · Oakland, CA · 2024
To conduct research on changes to risk adjustment in medicare advantage (ma) to inform policy proposals and ongoing administrative efforts to reduce incentives for ma plans to engage in aggressive risk coding to increas…
$775,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct research and analysis to inform policy discussions on key aspects of the medicare program related to competition and spending including (i) reforms to medicare advantage payment benchmarks, (ii) oversight of …
$750,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To fund the tax policy center.
$715,979
City of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To assess recent reforms and new initiatives in prosecutorial decision making in philadelphia communities.
$710,417
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
To conduct research and policy translation related to insurance design and market structure in the united states healthcare system.
$684,166
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a cohort of tax and budget policy groups in generating state-level analyses on the impact of fines and fees to support fee elimination and fine reform.
$683,353
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project, which will evaluate the quality of the evidence base for medical products, fulfillment of required post-market…
$679,339
Curators of the University of Missouri · St Louis, MO · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial ("rct") to assess the effects of transforming seven units in missouri prisons based on the scandinavian model.
$679,271
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To embed a research unit within the connecticut department of social services, with the aim of supporting the state medicaid office to use data and evidence to shape policy.
$677,308
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024
To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.
$670,128
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the change in policy governing police department use and documentation of pretextual stops.
$665,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To analyze a series of developments in prescription drug markets with the goal of understanding the consequences of various responses policy makers might adopt to the resulting market dynamics.
$660,000
University of California College of the Law San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To analyze policy solutions aimed at improving coordination between the fda and the uspto, while focusing on ensuring competition in the case of pharmaceutical mergers.
$640,862
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
To support center for advancing the study of health care research.
$621,822
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024
To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.
$620,093
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To examine mega-health systems that span states, markets, and service lines with the goal of understanding underlying economic mechanisms.
$617,970
Land Use Atlas · Washington, DC · 2024
To support grantee's national zoning atlas and its efforts to support zoning code reform by documenting information about zoning codes in six states: alaska, arizona, georgia, north carolina, utah, and colorado.
$617,000
Health Care Cost Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To inform policymakers of the factors that drive high healthcare spending and potential policy interventions.
$610,483
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To conduct a mega study - a large-scale randomized controlled trial that aims to simultaneously evaluate ten different low-cost interventions that support first-year college students.
$601,976
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support the prison and jail innovation lab with the overall goal of strengthening and improving correctional oversight across the united states through policy development and education.
$600,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To support the improvement of audit and enforcement procedures at the internal revenue service.
$600,000
Texas Tribune · Austin, TX · 2024
To provide general operating support for journalism.
$598,000
Calmatters · Sacramento, CA · 2024
To support the california accountability project's digital democracy program.
$580,000
Public Justice Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To bring strategic litigation that reinvigorates the prohibition on jailing people for nonpayment of fines and fees.
$576,407
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial of public safety outcomes through reduces supervision conditions.
$574,113
National Policing Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
To conduct a multi-site replication of a prior experimental study, in which a promising, low-cost supervisory intervention led to reduced arrests and use of force.
$570,000
Code for America Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support a state to design, build, and evaluate a process to reduce the costs and administrative burden associated with renewing medicaid eligibility for dual-eligible beneficiaries and creating publicly available mat…
$569,718
Community Resources for Justice · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the implementation of policy changes to safely reduce revocations and improve community supervision outcomes.
$561,162
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
To provide short-term bridge funding to the texas all payer claims database.
$556,739
Pro Publica · New York, NY · 2024
To support independent investigative journalism.
$555,284
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
To provide support for the national collaborative on gun violence research.
$555,000
United States of Care Campaign · Washington, DC · 2024
To engage stakeholders on hospital pricing practices.
$554,540
Anne Tumlinson Innovations Llc · Washington, DC · 2024
To objectively track biopharmaceutical companies' investment and r&d decisions and evaluating how these choices impact innovation, particularly in response to federal policy changes.
$552,339
National Conference of State Legislatures · Denver, CO · 2024
To enhance state legislative capacity to use evidence in state policymaking efforts and direct public funding to evidence-based programs.
$551,403
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To explore the pros and cons of computational simulation in clinical trials, using ai/ml methods to produce simulated controls at either the aggregate or the individual level, to measure the safety and effectiveness of …
$534,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To produce timely analyses and policy briefs to inform efforts to improve care and reduce inefficiencies for the dual-eligible population.
$520,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To develop a structured battery of statistical methods for measuring racial bias at various stages of the traffic enforcement process.
$515,277
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
To expand grantee's lab for economic opportunities? ("leo") capacity to work with organizations and agencies in the criminal justice space, with the overall goal of increasing rigorous criminal justice impact evaluation…
$514,657
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To develop a methodology for defining hospital and physician safety net providers across payers in the united states.
$509,689
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
To support a study of veterans' access and use of contraception to better understand needs, barriers, and policy solutions.
$501,000
National Legal Aid and Defender Association · Washington, DC · 2024
To support efforts around the country on issues of access to and independence of counsel and policy work at the state and federal level focused on increasing funding and independence of indigent defense.
$500,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support a forum for supervision agency leaders, foster practitioner-researcher connections, and identifying and facilitating opportunities to develop evidence-based supervision reforms.
$500,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To create the los angeles justice data hub, which will manage and support external researcher access to the los angeles district attorney ("lada") data for a range of research on charging, sentencing, and programmatic p…
$500,000
The Niskanen Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To support grantee's state capacity initiative and its efforts to identify opportunities and advance reforms related to the u.s. Government's ability to confront twenty-first century challenges with the right knowledge,…
$500,000
The Marshall Project · New York, NY · 2024
To support grantee's investigative reporting on criminal justice issues.
$500,000
National Center for Law and Economic Justice · New York, NY · 2024
To conduct impact litigation and educational advocacy to end punitive and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices in new york and oklahoma.
$500,000
Reboot Rx · Winchester, MA · 2024
To (1) research and explore policies that would enable the fda to incorporate updated information on a repurposed generic drug's label and (2) create payer-directed materials that communicate the impact and value of a r…
$500,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
To build the evidence base for policymaking.
$496,883
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To support scholarship involving health markets, insurance premiums, bad actors, and state-level interactions.
$493,037
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2024
To be used by the deason criminal justice reform center to identify and promote strategies for improving access to counsel at the earliest stages of the criminal legal process by launching a campaign to support changes …
$463,899
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.
$460,894
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024
To develop and launch budget policy campaigns in three to four states to create funding structures that allow for independence of the indigent defense function and promote state funding to deliver constitutionally suffi…
$456,955
Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the first step act resource center, which works to maximize the impact of the first step act ("fsa").
$451,516
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2024
To support research at the university of minnesota to augment the research capacity of the minnesota sentencing guideline commission.
$451,094
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To assess and estimate the amount of home health care fraud in the united states and the effect of alternative policy interventions on reducing improper home health care use.
$450,000
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2024
To pilot a "living evidence" model in the u.s. Department of education to provide a proof-of-concept for a modernized and accelerated approach to evidence synthesis and outcomes-driven policymaking.
$447,890
Minnesota Justice Research Center · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
To support implementation of the recently-passed, omnibus supervision bill in minnesota, providing guidance and expertise to agency leaders, and monitoring implementation issues; facilitating connections between policy …
$446,324
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To raise awareness for meaningful medicare reforms.
$437,982
Results for America · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue and expand the cities and counties for fine and fee justice ("ccffj") initiative by building on lessons learned from ccffj's work with local jurisdictions to build awareness and capacity to achieve fine and …
$437,710
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the creation of a collaborative network of governors' housing policy leads to share best practices on improving housing supply and affordability, and support an in-person convening.
$435,977
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support a research-practice partnership to study the impacts and implementation of peacerox, a violence reduction program for children, young adults, and families in central texas.

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