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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.

157 grants matching “reducing” · $46.0M

$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
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… read allTo 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 ad public education program, with the overall goal of reducing extreme prison sentences. less
$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.
$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… read allTo 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 overpayments and increase accountability and competition. less
$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… read allTo 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 increase payments. less
$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… read allTo 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 materials. less
$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.
$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.
$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.
$337,078
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To evaluate whether algorithmically blinding prosecutors to a defendant's race reduces bias in charging decisions, and if race-blinding has other unintended impacts on charging decisions.
$334,248
Taxpayers for Common Sense · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide comprehensive budget oversight to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs, including agriculture, nutrition benefits, defense programs, and disaster policy.
$305,134
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To analyze medicare advantage ("ma") payments and benefits, and their relationship to plan enrollment as well as to ma networks, to understand opportunities for ma policy changes with the goal of reducing ma spending an… read allTo analyze medicare advantage ("ma") payments and benefits, and their relationship to plan enrollment as well as to ma networks, to understand opportunities for ma policy changes with the goal of reducing ma spending and increasing value. less
$300,000
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
To provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overal… read allTo provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overall goal of rigorously testing new approaches to drive transformative solutions and policy change to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police. less
$281,077
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To evaluate "playing 4 change," a video game-supported, school-based therapeutic group that is designed to reduce aggression among at-risk youth, during the pivotal transition to adolescence.
$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
$239,676
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To study the effectiveness of spending limits in reducing wasteful medicare payments for physical therapy.
$223,306
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
To study the effects of auctions as a tool to reduce fraud in the medicare program.
$219,433
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To reduce the use of high-cost and high-use low-value medical devices by: (1) implementing and evaluating policy interventions, (2) analyzing and developing policy proposals, and (3) disseminating findings.
$215,511
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
To produce a centralized nursing home data repository and customized data reporting tool to support state and federal nursing home policy reform aimed at (i) improving transparency and accountability and (ii) reducing u… read allTo produce a centralized nursing home data repository and customized data reporting tool to support state and federal nursing home policy reform aimed at (i) improving transparency and accountability and (ii) reducing unnecessary medicaid spending. less
$208,332
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of safecare, an in-home, parent-training program that aims to reduce child neglect and maltreatment.
$200,000
Root & Rebound · Oakland, CA · 2024
To reduce employment barriers for justice impacted people.
$199,617
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue to develop and disseminate policy options to reduce health care spending along with estimates of their saving.
$180,623
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2024
To conduct quantitative analyses and develop policy options regarding changes to the medicare physician fee schedule that encourage more efficient use of advanced practice clinicians and reduce medicare spending.
$168,655
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To assess the effects of policy changes in california that were designed to reduce the use of sentencing enhancements.
$145,866
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2024
To explore solutions to reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.
$140,592
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To conduct a research study to evaluate a court-based intervention to reduce judges' inequitable decisions in bail decisions.
$130,923
Virginia Center for Health Innovation · Henrico, VA · 2024
To evaluate interventions to reduce the use of low-value healthcare in virginia.
$120,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To conduct a randomized controlled trial to study whether a street cleaning intervention in neighborhoods experiencing high rates of violent crime in philadelphia, pennsylvania reduces gun violence.
$100,000
Health Management Associates · Lansing, MI · 2024
To develop and socialize a set of policy proposals to reduce medicare spending.
$100,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To adapt and evaluate a scalable version of situational decision-making (sit-d) training for police officers, with the overall goal of improving officer decision-making during high-pressure situations and reducing adver… read allTo adapt and evaluate a scalable version of situational decision-making (sit-d) training for police officers, with the overall goal of improving officer decision-making during high-pressure situations and reducing adverse outcomes. less
$89,131
University of Maryland Baltimore · College Park, MD · 2024
To investigate racial disparities in the prosecution of criminal cases in three maryland counties and identify policies that reduce these disparities.
$85,398
University of Maryland Baltimore · College Park, MD · 2024
To conduct a planning study that explores the feasibility of conducting a randomizing controlled trial ("rct") that provides targeted programs and support to teachers who are likely to engage in extensive referring as a… read allTo conduct a planning study that explores the feasibility of conducting a randomizing controlled trial ("rct") that provides targeted programs and support to teachers who are likely to engage in extensive referring as a strategy to reduce racial discipline disparities. less
$85,357
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To document the processes by which courts reduce a person's debt from fines and fees through jail time credited at a particular dollar amount per day.
$80,930
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial of a program designed to reduce maternal depression and improve early cognitive development.
$80,182
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial of the peer navigator program for emergency department opioid overdose patients in rhode island, with the goal of identifying programs that reduce the rate of recurrent overdose … read allTo support a randomized controlled trial of the peer navigator program for emergency department opioid overdose patients in rhode island, with the goal of identifying programs that reduce the rate of recurrent overdose and overdose death. less
$75,336
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York City, NY · 2024
To devise and implement strategies to reduce revocation of probation and parole.
$61,871
Curators of the University of Missouri · St Louis, MO · 2024
To assess the early impacts of recent legislative initiatives to reduce or eliminate the use of fines and fees in the juvenile legal system.
$59,854
Council On Criminal Justice · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To examine trends in correctional populations with the goal of identifying reforms that can safely reduce incarceration and racial disparities.
$52,800
The Niskanen Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To convene experts and practitioners to discuss emerging and testable solutions to reduce gun violence, build partnerships for data collection and research, and disseminate findings.
$52,109
Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a program designed to reduce repeat unplanned pregnancies.
$38,147
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
$33,305
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024
To develop and disseminate policy options to reduce health care spending.
$26,959
Justice System Partners · South Easton, MA · 2024
To explore the role of prosecutors in reducing probation revocations.
$22,350
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York City, NY · 2024
To improve accountability and reduce policy misconduct in the context of focused deterrence policing approaches.
$22,272
Education Trust · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide access to higher education for justice-impacted students and reduce barriers to successful reintegration for people with criminal records.
$19,243
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2024
To produce a consensus report on how public policy can reduce racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
$4,000
Results for America · Washington, DC · 2024
To reduce the burden associated with applying for grant opportunities, particularly among those representing or providing services to underserved communities.
$1.0M
Police Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023
To provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six urban areas to reduce violence.
$900,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2023
To support expansion of the lantern project, a scalable model for data-driven decision-making to help safely reduce supervision revocations and achieve better supervision outcomes.
$666,516
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To identify and highlight low-value medical practices and work with policymakers/payers to reduce the use of such practices.
$434,400
Health Management Associates · Lansing, MI · 2023
To develop and socialize a set of policy proposals to reduce medicare spending.
$394,134
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2023
To explore solutions to reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.
$363,028
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To conduct a randomized controlled trial to study whether a street cleaning intervention in neighborhoods experiencing high rates of violent crime in philadelphia, pennsylvania reduces gun violence.
$350,000
Root & Rebound · Oakland, CA · 2023
To reduce employment barriers for justice impacted people.
$300,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
$300,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To devise and implement strategies to reduce revocation of probation and parole.
$260,281
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To analyze medicare advantage ("ma") payments and benefits, and their relationship to plan enrollment as well as to ma networks, to understand opportunities for ma policy changes with the goal of reducing ma spending an… read allTo analyze medicare advantage ("ma") payments and benefits, and their relationship to plan enrollment as well as to ma networks, to understand opportunities for ma policy changes with the goal of reducing ma spending and increasing value. less
$221,711
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2023
To investigate racial disparities in the prosecution of criminal cases in three maryland counties and identify policies that reduce these disparities.
$218,658
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
To study the effects of auctions as a tool to reduce fraud in the medicare program.
$204,911
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
To increase understanding of whether or not accountable care organizations reduce health disparities.
$200,000
Council On Criminal Justice · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To examine trends in correctional populations with the goal of identifying reforms that can safely reduce incarceration and racial disparities.
$191,003
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of safecare, an in-home, parent-training program that aims to reduce child neglect and maltreatment.
$187,865
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2023
To conduct quantitative analyses and develop policy options regarding changes to the medicare physician fee schedule that encourage more efficient use of advanced practice clinicians and reduce medicare spending.
$178,741
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To document the processes by which courts reduce a persons debt from fines and fees through jail time credited at a particular dollar amount per day.
$175,000
Justice System Partners · South Easton, MA · 2023
To explore the role of prosecutors in reducing probation revocations.
$150,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To support an evaluation of california's ab 1950, which reduced the maximum length of probation sentences.
$146,000
Results for America · Washington, DC · 2023
To reduce the burden associated with applying for grant opportunities, particularly among those representing or providing services to underserved communities.
$127,420
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
To conduct research on how to reduce gun violence.
$100,000
Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2023
To advance policy ideas to reduce health care costs and improve the quality of care.
$100,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To support a convening of grantee's health and strategy group on the topic of reducing gun violence from a public health perspective.
$98,090
Washington Health Alliance · Seattle, WA · 2023
To implement a multi-payer alternative payment model among a large number of purchasers centered on reducing low-value care associated with low back pain treatment in washington state.
$85,296
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2023
To develop and disseminate policy options to reduce health care spending.
$80,635
London School of Economics and Political Science · 2023
To support identification of policies to reduce tax evasion.
$75,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
To support a randomized controlled trial of a program designed to reduce maternal depression and improve early cognitive development.
$60,000
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
To support the development of web-based tools to provide objective information about firearm violence and how state laws reduce or exacerbate this violence.
$53,982
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023
To produce a consensus report on how public policy can reduce racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
$50,000
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2023
To fund a randomized controlled trial of healthy minds, a growth mindset intervention for high school students designed to reduce rates of clinical depression.
$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.
$37,317
Alliance for Health Policy · Washington, DC · 2023
To convene health policy experts, key stakeholders, policymakers and others to discuss policy solutions that reduce the cost of health care.
$35,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2023
To support reducing barriers to employment for people with criminal records in up to 10 states.
$23,375
Search Group Incorporated · Sacramento, CA · 2023
To identify policies that reduce racial disparities in incarceration.
$20,564
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2023
To improve the nations prisons and safely reduce incarceration.
$19,400
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support the dissemination of a report and host a related convening on lessons learned from newark's efforts to reduce violence.
$1.3M
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
To conduct research on how to reduce gun violence.
$1.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To research and develop policies on surprise medical billing, analyze the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and develop affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care pr… read allTo research and develop policies on surprise medical billing, analyze the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and develop affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices. less
$968,979
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2022
To support expansion of the lantern project, a scalable model for data-driven decision-making to help safely reduce supervision revocations and achieve better supervision outcomes.
$949,869
Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2022
To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a program designed to reduce repeat pregnancies.
$750,000
Health Care Cost Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Identifying trends and drivers of health care spending for employer-sponsored healthcare and reducing healthcare costs.
$727,532
University of Cincinnati Research Institute · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
To test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.
$714,127
Community Resources for Justice · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the implementation of policy changes to safely reduce revocations and improve community supervision outcomes.
$571,055
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2022
To support a randomized controlled trial of public safety outcomes through reduced supervision conditions.
$418,385
Council On Criminal Justice · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To examine trends in correctional populations with the goal of identifying reforms that can safely reduce incarceration and racial disparities.
$400,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2022
To support reducing barriers to employment for people with criminal records in up to 10 states.
$350,000
Washington Health Alliance · Seattle, WA · 2022
To implement a multi-payer alternative payment model among a large number of purchasers centered on reducing low-value care associated with low back pain treatment in washington state.
$350,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To research medicare payment policy changes to reduce low-value post-acute care.
$326,703
Virginia Center for Health Innovation · Henrico, VA · 2022
To evaluate interventions to reduce the use of low-value healthcare in virginia.
$283,546
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
To support the development of web-based tools to provide objective information about firearm violence and how state laws reduce or exacerbate this violence.
$275,524
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2022
To investigate racial disparities in the prosecution of criminal cases in three maryland counties and identify policies that reduce these disparities.
$258,821
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
To increase understanding of whether or not accountable care organizations reduce health disparities.
$235,797
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To support an evaluation of california's ab 1950, which reduced the maximum length of probation sentences.
$229,366
The Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
To support an in-person convening that will produce scholarly papers, a research agenda, and action report with recommendations to reduce gun violence.
$200,000
Alliance for Health Policy · Washington, DC · 2022
To convene health policy experts, key stakeholders, policymakers and others to discuss policy solutions that reduce the cost of health care.
$198,224
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
To work with several state partners to evaluate and design different payment-related incentives that state health care purchasers can utilize to help reduce the use of low-value healthcare services.
$175,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2022
To promote data-driven prosecution reform and safely reduce the imprint of the criminal justice system.
$150,000
Justice System Partners · South Easton, MA · 2022
To explore the role of prosecutors in reducing probation revocations.
$140,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2022
To implement a scalable technology solution to reduce revocations and recidivism in three states.
$130,557
Community Resources for Justice · Boston, MA · 2022
To work with four states to reduce revocations from supervision.
$130,000
Search Group Incorporated · Sacramento, CA · 2022
To identify policies that reduce racial disparities in incarceration.
$130,000
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2022
To improve the nation's prisons and safely reduce incarceration.
$121,171
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
To produce a consensus report on how public policy can reduce racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
$118,638
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2022
To analyze the use of low-value care by specific health systems in an effort to provide valuable insight to payers and policymakers, and inform future payment models, network design efforts, and interventions that reduc… read allTo analyze the use of low-value care by specific health systems in an effort to provide valuable insight to payers and policymakers, and inform future payment models, network design efforts, and interventions that reduce low-value care. less
$106,730
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022
To develop and disseminate policy options to reduce health care spending.
$100,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
$100,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2022
To provide technical support in states reducing legal barriers to employment and economic opportunity for people with criminal records.
$77,600
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support the dissemination of a report and host a related convening on lessons learned from newark's efforts to reduce violence.
$75,000
National Center for Youth Law · Oakland, CA · 2022
To pilot a model in the state of california that aims to reduce the number of low risk youth on probation.
$70,000
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2022
To support identification of policies to reduce tax evasion by high-income earners.
$63,910
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation · Burlington, VT · 2022
To evaluate an interim buprenorphine treatment for reducing the risk of opioid misuse and overdose.
$62,358
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To evaluate emerging health system and payer interventions to reduce overuse of postsurgical opioid prescribing for acute pain.
$47,213
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To reduce leakage in defined contribution plans and to assess the feasibility of two innovative retirement policy concepts.
$28,040
National Opinion Research Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support the norc expert panel on reducing gun violence and improving data infrastructure.
$15,504
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
To evaluate a tool for reducing repeat incidents of domestic violence.
$1.3M
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2020
To implement a scalable technology solution to reduce revocations and recidivism in three states.
$1.1M
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
$1.0M
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2020
To develop, launch, and manage the reducing revocations challenge.
$945,000
Community Resources for Justice · Boston, MA · 2020
To work with four states to reduce revocations from supervision.
$875,000
Virginia Center for Health Innovation · Henrico, VA · 2020
To evaluate interventions to reduce the use of low-value healthcare in virginia.
$693,957
University of Cincinnati Research Institute · Cincinnati, OH · 2020
To test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.
$650,000
Center for Children'S Law and Policy · Washington, DC · 2020
To support reducing and ending solitary confinement for youth in custody.
$550,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To identify and highlight low-value medical practices and work with policymakers/payers to reduce the use of such practices.
$500,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To research medicare payment policy changes to reduce low-value post-acute care.
$470,000
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Washington, DC · 2020
To help reduce the incarceration of indigent defendants in arkansas and oklahoma who are detained solely because they are unable to pay court-imposed fines and fees.
$400,000
Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2020
To advance policy ideas to reduce health care costs and improve the quality of care.
$391,609
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2020
To transform the nation's prisons and safely reduce incarceration.
$300,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
$300,000
Washington Health Alliance · Seattle, WA · 2020
To assess low-value care utilization among eight employers in washington state and help them implement strategies to reduce the use of such care.
$275,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2020
To reduce leakage in defined contribution plans and to assess the feasibility of two innovative retirement policy concepts.
$275,000
National Center for Youth Law · Oakland, CA · 2020
To pilot a model in the state of california that aims to reduce the number of low risk youth on probation.
$246,909
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2020
To fund a randomized controlled trial of the rapid employment and development initiative program, which provides transitional jobs, cognitive behavioral therapy, and additional services for men at high risk of being per… read allTo fund a randomized controlled trial of the rapid employment and development initiative program, which provides transitional jobs, cognitive behavioral therapy, and additional services for men at high risk of being perpetrators or victims of violent crime, with the overall goal of identifying programs to help reduce crime among this population. less
$237,154
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation · Burlington, VT · 2020
To evaluate an interim buprenorphine treatment for reducing the risk of opioid misuse and overdose.
$219,822
National Center for State Courts · Williamsburg, VA · 2020
To help reduce the amount of time it takes to process criminal cases.
$200,000
The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2020
To provide technical support in states reducing legal barriers to employment and economic opportunity for people with criminal records.
$189,454
National Juvenile Defender Center · Washington, DC · 2020
To reduce the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention for juvenile defendants.
$175,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2020
To promote data-driven prosecution reform and safely reduce the imprint of the criminal justice system.
$170,501
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2020
To provide nonpartisan policy recommendations and technical support to interested states related to reducing health care prices.
$168,771
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2020
To fund a randomized controlled trial of healthy minds, a growth mindset intervention for high school students designed to reduce rates of clinical depression.
$157,101
Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2020
To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a program designed to reduce repeat pregnancies.
$150,000
Search Group Incorporated · Sacramento, CA · 2020
To identify policies that reduce racial disparities in incarceration.
$145,000
Education Trust · Washington, DC · 2020
To provide access to higher education for justice-impacted students and reduce barriers to successful reintegration for people with criminal records.
$128,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2020
To evaluate emerging health system and payer interventions to reduce overuse of postsurgical opioid prescribing for acute pain.
$117,751
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2020
To assess the impact of transportation subsidies to reduce failure to appear in court.
$81,355
Harris County Texas · Houston, TX · 2020
To provide technical assistance to significantly reduce youth involvement and racial disparities in harris county's justice system.
$46,551
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2020
To evaluate a tool for reducing repeat incidents of domestic violence.
$46,000
George Mason University Foundation · Fairfax, VA · 2020
To support evidence-based policing in order to reduce violence and build trust between communities and police.
$20,000
Friends Research Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2020
To support an ongoing randomized controlled trial of interim methadone to reduce recidivism and relapse among inmates in the baltimore city's detention facilities.

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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