Funding search · EIN 263241764 · Houston, TX

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Name: Laura and John Arnold Foundation grants, 2020–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

2,588
grants reported: $754.5M
total given: 2020–2024
filing years: $138,933
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2020–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research policy randomized trial controlled state conduct care

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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

Criminal justice research: pretrial, policing, sentencing, community supervision
Health care cost and drug pricing policy analysis for policymakers
Randomized controlled trials and evidence-to-policy infrastructure (J-PAL, MDRC)
Medicare Advantage, dual-eligibles, and insurance market research
K-12 and postsecondary education reform, student lending accountability
Housing supply, zoning reform, fiscal and tax policy analysis

Typical grant

Median grant is $138,933, with the middle half between $50,713 and $297,174. University research projects and evaluations cluster in the $500,000 to $1,000,000 range; the eight-figure checks go to long-term intermediary partners like The City Fund and MDRC receiving general operating support. Repeat funding is heavy, with MIT, RAND, Yale, Penn, Brown, Harvard, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Urban Institute appearing multiple times across years.

Their words

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

“randomized controlled trial”
“to inform policy discussions”
“evidence-based”
“technical assistance to policymakers”
“policy translation”
“nonpartisan”

Positioning adjacent work

Lead with a causal design: RCT or rigorous evaluation, not descriptive work or program delivery.
Name the specific policymaker audience and the decision your findings will inform.
Ask $500K to $1M for a single university research project; larger only with institutional track record.
Connect to a live reform: pretrial assessment, Medicare Advantage payment, zoning, drug pricing, or supervision revocations.
Pair research with a dissemination or technical assistance arm; they fund translation, not just findings.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates in DC think tanks and a small set of elite research universities, and the same institutions recur year after year, so this reads as a relationship-driven portfolio built around known research teams. Recent years show heavy weighting toward health care cost containment and criminal justice evaluation, with education flowing mostly through a few large intermediaries rather than individual scholars.

82 grants matching “analysis” · $23.9M

$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.
$1.0M
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… read allTo 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 the people and families impacted by the criminal justice system. less
$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… read allTo 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 affordability; 3) medicare and prescription drugs in the post-inflation reduction act era; and 4) rapid-response analyses of emerging medicare policy issues. less
$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 … read allTo 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 agents and brokers, and (iii) benefit redesign in traditional medicare. less
$419,494
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To (i) provide comprehensive analysis of regulatory flexibilities that use lower evidence standards for fda approval; and (ii) develop new labeling strategies to describe the limitations and uncertainties of clinical be… read allTo (i) provide comprehensive analysis of regulatory flexibilities that use lower evidence standards for fda approval; and (ii) develop new labeling strategies to describe the limitations and uncertainties of clinical benefit for new drugs. less
$344,989
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support policy analysis and development, field leadership, and educational advocacy to drive progress on federal accountability and student loan reform.
$306,566
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2024
To support states to develop a standardized traffic stops data collection infrastructure and conduct routine analysis to address identified racial disparities by tapping underutilized federal funding.
$300,000
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support research and education on private equity (pe) investment in the health care sector to provide expanded transparency and analysis about its role in health care, focusing the impact of pe on provider pricing an… read allTo support research and education on private equity (pe) investment in the health care sector to provide expanded transparency and analysis about its role in health care, focusing the impact of pe on provider pricing and consolidation issues in the commercial market, including on the role of pe in the use of anticompetitive practices, surprise billing, rural health, and pe health care roll ups, among others. less
$299,700
Yes in My Back Yard · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support grantee's efforts to conduct housing enforcement in three states through legal partnerships, legal analysis, and housing project partnerships.
$293,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To evaluate the collection, retention and use of dna analysis by law enforcement.
$291,618
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.
$290,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct research and analysis to develop recommendations for new place-based policies that would effectively facilitate capital access for mission-driven developers in middle neighborhoods as an alternative to simply… read allTo conduct research and analysis to develop recommendations for new place-based policies that would effectively facilitate capital access for mission-driven developers in middle neighborhoods as an alternative to simply extending existing tax incentives. less
$280,434
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and st… read allTo support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices. less
$200,000
Commercial Club Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support a public workforce allocation analysis of the chicago police department ("cdp") that will lead to the development of an interactive and configurable model that will enable the cpd to replicate this analysis a… read allTo support a public workforce allocation analysis of the chicago police department ("cdp") that will lead to the development of an interactive and configurable model that will enable the cpd to replicate this analysis as needs evolve over time. less
$177,177
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To establish a land use and transportation policy reform program that will provide analysis and technical assistance for state and metropolitan areas to improve housing and transportation reforms.
$165,663
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2024
To fund the council of state governments' more community, less confinement analysis on the impact of community supervision revocations on state prison populations.
$125,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
To conduct an evaluation of the civil rights, civil liberties, and ethical concerns presented by law enforcement's use of body cameras, review and analysis.
$123,665
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To provide grantee with a planning grant which will allow grantee to establish necessary jurisdictional partnerships, data-use agreements, and preliminary data management and analysis as the basis for a causal research … read allTo provide grantee with a planning grant which will allow grantee to establish necessary jurisdictional partnerships, data-use agreements, and preliminary data management and analysis as the basis for a causal research proposal. less
$117,500
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
To conduct a landscape analysis and research in ohio on the need for better indigent defense.
$116,970
Justice Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To explore prison terms and the aging prison population drive correctional costs by reviewing existing research and conducting an in-depth analysis in 3-5 states.
$115,472
The Breakthrough Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To support research, analysis, publication, and distribution of a report on national environmental policy act lawsuits.
$105,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Basalt, CO · 2024
To conduct non-partisan research and analysis on estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from prospective federal permitting bills.
$100,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct a landscape analysis of federal place-based development programs.
$98,894
Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024
To update and expand analysis of the effectiveness of the opportunity zones program with additional years of data for the benefit of researchers, policymakers, and the general public.
$87,000
National Opinion Research Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
To conduct a landscape analysis on the entrance and growth of for-profit entities in the pace market.
$83,238
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
To develop a research protocol for quasi-experimental, causal analysis to assess the impact of pretrial supervision and support services on pretrial failures, jail bookings and detention lengths, case dispositions, sent… read allTo develop a research protocol for quasi-experimental, causal analysis to assess the impact of pretrial supervision and support services on pretrial failures, jail bookings and detention lengths, case dispositions, sentence lengths, and post-disposition recidivism. less
$81,431
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice · Montgomery, AL · 2024
To provide a descriptive analysis of a pilot intervention designed to increase compliance with orders to pay fines and fees, and eliminate racial disparities in debt accumulation.
$79,280
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To drive attention to the issue of medicare solvency and sustainability and make the case for meaningful medicare reforms through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.
$44,011
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2024
To increase transparency and accountability of south carolina carceral institutions through collection, publication, and analysis of data regarding deaths an conditions behind bars.
$41,797
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the health care sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthca… read allTo support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the health care sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthcare market. less
$22,806
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support a survey and analysis on contraceptive coverage and access.
$16,443
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To conduct economic analysis to identify markets that have anticompetitive prices, high total cost of care or low health care quality.
$10,621
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2024
To plan a multi-site randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of implementing truleo, a body worn-video analysis tool for supervision.
$9,733
Justice in Aging · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct a legal analysis in massachusetts for program elements of the state's one care program.
$9,500
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management · Washington, DC · 2024
The purpose of this grant is to expand the evidence-based policy research base. The 2024 appam fall research conference, policymaking at the federal, state, and local levels, encourages conversation that sound policy de… read allThe purpose of this grant is to expand the evidence-based policy research base. The 2024 appam fall research conference, policymaking at the federal, state, and local levels, encourages conversation that sound policy design and implementation requires thoughtful consideration of how policies play out, and interact, at multiple levels of government. And useful policy research requires careful attention to the context in which a policy is implemented, including the level of government. less
$1.2M
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2023
To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.
$688,443
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To develop policy analysis to improve policing and community safety.
$406,295
Wesleyan University · Middletown, CT · 2023
To conduct a historical analysis of firearms regulation in five states and share what has been learned through a variety of deliverables, including a database of regulations and a field guide.
$337,339
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.
$300,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To conduct a landscape analysis of federal place-based development programs.
$250,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To conduct economic analysis to identify markets that have anticompetitive prices, high total cost of care or low health care quality.
$215,000
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the healthcare sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthcar… read allTo support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the healthcare sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthcare market. less
$125,037
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support a survey and analysis on contraceptive access.
$86,431
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To support analysis of alternative audit methods.
$84,897
Regents of the University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
To provide data analysis and descriptive information on charging and release decisions to inform policy decision-making in the state of new mexico.
$84,000
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2023
To plan a multi-site randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of implementing a bodyworn-video analysis tool for supervision.
$75,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To support analysis on a range of issues related to implementing the public option in the employer markets in three states.
$66,668
Justice in Aging · Washington, DC · 2023
To conduct a legal analysis in massachusetts for program elements of the states one care program.
$56,031
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Branchville, NJ · 2023
To provide research and analysis to the new jersey criminal sentencing and disposition commission.
$47,636
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
To conduct an analysis of new jersey pilot program alternative responses to reduce instances of violence & escalation ("arrive") together, a co-responder program.
$35,054
The Foundation for Research On Equal Opportunity · Austin, TX · 2023
To conduct and present a policy proposal for federal higher education accountability and a return-on-investment analysis.
$28,828
Health Management Associates · Lansing, MI · 2023
To support research and analysis to inform improving access to integrated coverage for dual-eligible individuals who live in rural and frontier areas across the country.
$24,498
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of all randomized trials on efforts to improve the fairness, safety, and effectiveness of policing conducted to date globally.
$1.2M
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022
To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.
$688,442
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To develop policy analysis to improve policing and community safety.
$620,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To support analysis of alternative audit methods.
$584,035
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Branchville, NJ · 2022
To provide research and analysis to the new jersey criminal sentencing and disposition commission.
$524,865
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support a survey and analysis on contraceptive coverage and access.
$400,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To conduct economic analysis to identify markets that have anticompetitive prices, high total cost of care or low health care quality.
$400,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
To deploy social network analysis to help guide violence reduction efforts in chicago, illinois
$340,000
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the health care sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthca… read allTo support the purpose of researching and tracking growing private equity investments in the health care sector to provide increased transparency, reporting, and analysis about the role of private equity in the healthcare market. less
$250,000
Health Management Associates · Lansing, MI · 2022
To support research and analysis to inform improving access to integrated coverage for dual- eligible individuals who live in rural and frontier areas across the country.
$200,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To analyze the analysis impact of federal budget policy reform proposals for policymakers.
$175,268
The Foundation for Research On Equal Opportunity · Austin, TX · 2022
To conduct and present a policy proposal for federal higher education accountability and a return-on-investment analysis.
$159,487
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2022
To fund the council of state governments' more community, less confinement analysis on the impact of community supervision revocations on state prison populations.
$73,767
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022
To conduct research and policy analysis related to public pension programs.
$71,500
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2022
To support policy analysis and research focused on economic growth for puerto rico.
$46,926
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To develop policy analysis to improve policing and community safety.
$42,130
Impact for Equity · Chicago, IL · 2022
Policy analysis and research around criminal justice reform in illinois.
$28,113
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
To conduct an analysis of pretrial released felony defendants in four arizona counties, with the overall goal of identifying predictors of a failure to appear for court.
$19,818
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
To complete a comprehensive analysis of wisconsin state records and other empirical evidence to examine how market concentration can exacerbate economic inequalities.
$6,697
University of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2022
To support an analysis of outcomes in online postsecondary education nationwide.
$2.0M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020
To support the analysis and impact of federal budget policy reform proposals for policymakers.
$1.1M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2020
To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and st… read allTo support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices. less
$463,034
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2020
To deploy social network analysis to help guide violence reduction efforts in chicago, illinois.
$246,023
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2020
To lower health care costs through research and analysis.
$211,829
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2020
To develop grantee's internal capacity to conduct research and analysis related to public pension plans reform efforts.
$184,500
The Institute for College Access and Success · Oakland, CA · 2020
To provide policy analysis, public education, and coalition-building regarding higher education quality and accountability at the federal level.
$145,000
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2020
To conduct an analysis of pretrial released felony defendants in four arizona counties, with the overall goal of identifying predictors of a failure to appear for court.
$98,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2020
To conduct an analysis of supervision policies and outcomes in washington state.
$65,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020
To support analysis of short-term postsecondary programs and their outcomes for college students.
$30,000
University of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2020
To support analysis of higher education outcomes during the last u.s. Recession in order to identify ways to protect and ensure return on investment for students impacted by the pandemic.

Top recipients

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

The City Fund3 grants · $30.9M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology19 grants · $28.2M
Urban Institute76 grants · $26.4M
Mdrc40 grants · $24.7M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania41 grants · $21.6M
President and Fellows of Harvard College65 grants · $21.1M
Center for Effective Public Policy5 grants · $17.0M
Research Triangle Institute39 grants · $14.5M
Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning2 grants · $13.3M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley56 grants · $11.1M

Giving over time

$212.4M

2020

$185.8M

2022

$162.9M

2023

$193.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,588 grants.

$17.3M
The City Fund · Falls Church, VA · 2020
To provide general operating support.
$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… read allTo 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 across the united states. less
$10.0M
Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Nashville, TN · 2023
To support the national tutoring program.
$10.0M
America Achieves · New York, NY · 2022
To support a national tutoring program and accompanying research to improve academics and wellness for students.
$10.0M
Civica Foundation · Lehi, UT · 2022
To support the grantee's program to produce nonprofit biosimilar insulin.
$6.4M
Evidence for Healthcare Improvement · Boston, MA · 2020
To support the institute for clinical and economic review research that provides independent analyses of the comparative cost effectiveness for newly-introduced pharmaceutical drugs.
$5.0M
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020
To support research to advance and elevate tax and spending policy.
$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 … read allTo 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 more rigorous approach to technical assistance; (iii) advancing its leadership on the use of new evaluation methodologies and data; and (iv) leveraging data efficiently for evaluation, decision-making, and program improvement. less
$5.0M
Habitat for Humanity International · Americus, GA · 2023
To provide a program-related investment in support of habitat affiliates with early-stage capital for affordable housing development.
$5.0M
Habitat for Humanity International · Americus, GA · 2022
To provide habitat affiliates with early-stage capital for affordable housing development.
$4.8M
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2020
To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.
$4.6M
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2023
To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.
$4.0M
Justice Action Network Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support grantee's charitable and non-partisan criminal justice reform activities.
$4.0M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's north america regional office.
$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… read allTo 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 that inform policy at scale, and institutionalizing the use of evidence as a driving force behind u.s. Policymaking. less
$3.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
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.
$3.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
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.
$3.5M
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2022
To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.
$3.3M
Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Nashville, TN · 2024
To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.
$3.2M
Coalition for Public Safety · Washington, DC · 2020
To support nonpartisan criminal justice reform efforts in 2020.
$3.2M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020
To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.
$3.1M
Children'S Hospital Corporation Dba Children'S Hospital Boston · Boston, MA · 2020
To fund a randomized controlled trial analyzing how carbohydrates, fat, and added sugar affect body fat and metabolism.
$3.1M
Persistent Surveillance Systems Llc · Xenia, OH · 2020
To conduct a six-month pilot test of the aerial investigative research program to assist the baltimore city police department.
$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
Coalition for Public Safety · Washington, DC · 2022
To provide general operating support.
$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.
$3.0M
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To fund the tax policy center.
$3.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To provide general operating support.
$3.0M
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
To fund the tax policy center.
$3.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To provide general operating support.
$2.8M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To support the operations of the harvard healthcare markets and regulations lab.
$2.5M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2020
To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.
$2.5M
Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2020
To support the expansion and replication of high-quality schools in camden, new jersey.
$2.5M
Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2020
To support improved management of state and local public retirement systems.
$2.5M
William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2020
To provide operational support to launch the texas policy lab.
$2.4M
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
To launch a prison research and innovation initiative to infuse transparency, accountability, and innovation into the prison sector.
$2.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's north america regional office.
$2.3M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2020
To support the clean slate campaign.
$2.2M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020
To support implementation of the transitional care model across four hospital systems.
$2.1M
Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To help reimagine the american prison system through strategic communications and expanding and evaluating the restoring promise initiative.
$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
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… read allTo 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 centers human dignity, safety, and race equity. less
$2.0M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support improvement of the penn wharton budget model.
$2.0M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020
To support the analysis and impact of federal budget policy reform proposals for policymakers.
$2.0M
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020
To launch a prison research and innovation initiative to infuse transparency, accountability, and innovation into the prison sector.
$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
American Journalism Project · Washington, DC · 2022
To support civic news organizations' business development.
$1.9M
American Journalism Project · Washington, DC · 2020
To support civic news organizations' business development.
$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.
$1.8M
Center for Health Policy Development · Portland, ME · 2020
To provide educational resources for prescription drug and commercial health care prices.
$1.8M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2020
To support grantee's continued efforts to communicates viable, evidence-based methodologies and solutions to drug pricing that balance patient affordability with sustained incentives for innovation.
$1.7M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2022
To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.
$1.7M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support implementation of the transitional care model across four hospital systems.
$1.7M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.
$1.6M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2020
To fund the state medicaid alternative reimbursement and purchasing test for high cost drugs (smart-d) and support the development of value-based alternative drug purchasing models through pharmacy policy interventions,… read allTo fund the state medicaid alternative reimbursement and purchasing test for high cost drugs (smart-d) and support the development of value-based alternative drug purchasing models through pharmacy policy interventions, technical assistance, and education. less
$1.5M
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2020
To develop and fund initial operations of the brown policy lab.
$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… read allTo 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, employers, and the government. less
$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
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023
To advance evidence-based policy through high-quality research and technical assistance to generate sustainable, measurable change across several grantee divisions.
$1.5M
The Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.
$1.5M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support improvement of the penn wharton budget model.
$1.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
For continued support of the state and local government innovation initiative.
$1.5M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
To advance evidence-based policy through high-quality research and technical assistance to generate sustainable, measurable change across several grantee divisions.
$1.5M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2020
To develop and disseminate research on policy options that maximize access to and affordability of prescription drugs without stifling innovation.
$1.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To support the state and local government innovation initiative at the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's regional office in north america.
$1.5M
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2020
To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the michigan contraceptive access research and evaluation program.
$1.5M
Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2020
To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.
$1.4M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020
To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society.
$1.4M
Reason Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2020
To improve state and municipal pension systems.
$1.4M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.
$1.4M
Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2022
To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.
$1.3M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023
To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.
$1.3M
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2020
To implement a scalable technology solution to reduce revocations and recidivism in three states.
$1.3M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society.
$1.3M
Colorado Seminary · Denver, CO · 2020
To help establish a policy lab in the state of colorado.
$1.3M
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
To conduct research on how to reduce gun violence.
$1.3M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.
$1.3M
Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2022
To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a nurse-led hospital discharge and home follow-up program for chronically ill older adults.
$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
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020
To launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degre… read allTo launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degree. less
$1.2M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.
$1.2M
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2023
To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.
$1.2M
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022
To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.
$1.2M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2020
To provide technical support, capacity building resources, and training to reproductive health providers in utah.
$1.2M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2020
To pilot a project aimed at improving outcomes for youth ages 16 to 24 who are out of school and work in chicago.
$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… read allTo 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) publishing assessments on the most effective land use policies for increasing housing supply in various localities. less
$1.2M
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2020
To support litigation and public education efforts concerning indigent incarceration and drivers license suspensions.
$1.1M
The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
To develop a research infrastructure that helps cities better understand and respond to waves of gun violence.
$1.1M
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2022
To provide technical assistance for pretrial reform implementation in illinois.
$1.1M
The City Fund · Falls Church, VA · 2020
To improve the quality of public education in cities across the united states.
$1.1M
Project On Predatory Student Lending · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support.
$1.1M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
To conduct research exploring the impacts of monetary sanctions and identifying alternative legal system reforms.
$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
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020
To evaluate the least burdensome release conditions and supervision practices that improve court appearance.
$1.1M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2020
To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and st… read allTo support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices. less
$1.1M
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2020
To support the operations of the california policy lab, which seeks to improve california state and local government programs and policy.
$1.1M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2020
To support the operations of the california policy lab, which seeks to improve california state and local government programs and policy.
$1.1M
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
To develop domestic violence pretrial assessments.

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