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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation

Name: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

232
grants reported: $752.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $1.0M
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. 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 science education practice measures community health imaging

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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

Core support for CZ Biohub network and CZI-owned science LLCs
AI plus biology institutes: Kempner at Harvard, LLM compute for biomedicine
Imaging, cell science, single-cell atlases, and open science infrastructure
Education measurement: assessment tools, research-to-practice, leaders of color
Precision health at four historically Black medical colleges
Ocean conservation and Hawaii medical training; carbon removal research

Typical grant

Median grant is $1,000,000, with the middle half between $500,000 and $2,300,000. The eight-figure checks go almost entirely to CZI's own entities (CZ Biohub SF, Chicago, New York, the Imaging Institute) plus Harvard's Kempner Institute and San Francisco General Hospital's capital campaign. Outside grantees cluster at $1M to $2.3M and repeat nearly identically year over year: Yale, Human Cell Atlas, Resolve to Save Lives, Latinos for Education, Surge Institute, and the four HBMC precision health awards all recur at the same or similar amounts.

Their words

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

“FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“SCIENCE: CELL SCIENCE”
“EDUCATION: RESEARCH TO PRACTICE - MEASURES”
“PURSUING GRAND SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES”
“SCIENCE: PRECISION HEALTH”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame science work as tool-building or shared infrastructure, matching "imaging," "cell science," or "open science" lines.
Ask $1M to $2.5M; larger sums go to CZI's own Biohubs and named institutes.
For education, pitch measurement instruments and district implementation evidence, not curriculum or direct services.
Emphasize open data, preprints, and community access; they funded bioRxiv, UK Biobank, and Human Cell Atlas.

Worth knowing: A very large share of the money never leaves the family: CZ Biohub entities and the Imaging Institute took over $160M of the $752M, and the outside list is small and highly repetitive across 2023 and 2024. Geography skews hard to California, with clusters in DC, Boston, New York, Seattle, and an unusual standing commitment to the University of Hawaii for ocean conservation and Kauai medical training.

2 grants matching “dioxide” · $3.3M

$2.5M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Carbon dioxide removal program
$769,674
Activate Global · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Carbon dioxide removal innovations

Top recipients

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

President and Fellows of Harvard College5 grants · $164.6M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub5 grants · $136.6M
Cz Biohub Sf Llc1 grant · $60.0M
University of Hawaii Foundation6 grants · $35.5M
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation4 grants · $30.0M
Cz Biohub Chicago Llc2 grants · $21.5M
Resolve To Save Lives3 grants · $15.0M
Regents of the University of California Los Angeles3 grants · $15.0M
Cz Biohub New York Llc2 grants · $14.0M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley4 grants · $13.3M

Giving over time

$364.7M

2022

$152.6M

2023

$235.4M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 232 grants.

$100.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
The kempner institute for the study of natural and artificial intelligence
$85.0M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Medical research
$60.0M
Cz Biohub Sf Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Science: cz biohub san francsico core support
$30.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
For the kempner institute for the study of natural and artificial intelligence at harvard university
$29.6M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
The kempner institute for the study of natural and artificial intelligence at harvard university
$21.0M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support the purchase and maintenance of high-performance computer hardware to apply advances in large language models and artificial intelligence to biomedical research
$18.0M
Cz Biohub Chicago Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Science: cz biohub chicago core support
$14.2M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Ocean conservation and research
$14.1M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For general operating support
$12.5M
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support the capital campaign
$12.2M
Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Science: cz imaging institute core support
$12.0M
Cz Biohub New York Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Science: cz biohub new york core support
$11.5M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For general operating support
$11.5M
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the capital campaign
$8.7M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support ocean conservation and research
$8.1M
The Primary School-East Palo Alto · East Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General operating support
$8.0M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Innovative genomics institute research to enhance the natural ability of plants and soil microbes to capture and store carbon
$7.7M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024
Ocean conservation
$7.0M
Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the institute for carbon management for seachange, electrochemical direct air capture, and low-temp portlandite carbon removal projects, including research, development, and scaling to market
$7.0M
Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Institute for carbon management for seachange
$6.0M
Fwdus Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$5.0M
Resolve To Save Lives · New York, NY · 2024
For general operating support
$5.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Science: cell science
$5.0M
Resolve To Save Lives · New York, NY · 2023
For general operating support
$5.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the establishment of the seattle hub for synthetic biology
$5.0M
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Establishment of the chan zuckerberg biohub network
$5.0M
Resolve To Save Lives · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$5.0M
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
2022 capital campaign
$5.0M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Carbon to sea initiative
$4.4M
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Lattice data curation that enables community contribution to interoperable data resources
$4.4M
The Primary School-East Palo Alto · East Palo Alto, CA · 2023
For general operating support
$4.3M
The Just Trust for Education · Durham, NC · 2024
For general operating support
$4.3M
The Just Trust for Education · Durham, NC · 2023
For general operating support
$4.0M
New Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support
$4.0M
The Primary School · East Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General operating support
$3.5M
Cz Biohub Chicago Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support chan zuckerberg biohub chicago and advance its goal of pursuing grand scientific challenges
$3.0M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To support research at the innovative genomics institute to enhance the natural ability of plants and soil microbes to capture and store carbon to meet the scale of the climate change problem
$3.0M
Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2022
California community ownership pooled fund
$2.9M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Improve the sustainability and capacity of biorxiv/medrxiv
$2.6M
The University College London · 2024
Science: imaging
$2.5M
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Chan zuckerberg kauai community fund
$2.5M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Science: science in society
$2.5M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To seed opportunity insights, a new research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity for people across the country
$2.5M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Carbon dioxide removal program
$2.5M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Creation of opportunity insights institute
$2.5M
United Kingdom Research and Innovation · 2024
Science: imaging
$2.4M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
All home to support the bay area homeless prevention pilot
$2.3M
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Science: precision health
$2.3M
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024
Science: precision health
$2.3M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2024
Science: precision health
$2.3M
The Morehouse School of Medicine · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Science: precision health
$2.3M
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision … read allTo engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision health for everyone less
$2.3M
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2023
To engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision … read allTo engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision health for everyone less
$2.3M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2023
To engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision … read allTo engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision health for everyone less
$2.3M
The Morehouse School of Medicine · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision … read allTo engage historically black medical colleges (hbmcs) and the communities they serve to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease, and accelerate precision health for everyone less
$2.3M
Charles Drew University of Science & Medicine · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Accelerate genomics research and precision health for everyone
$2.3M
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022
Accelerate genomics research and precision health for everyone
$2.3M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2022
Accelerate genomics research and precision health for everyone
$2.3M
The Morehouse School of Medicine · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Accelerate genomics research and precision health for everyone
$2.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
To support the yale center for emotional intelligence in implementing an integrated suite of assessment tools that support positive healthy learning environments in schools
$2.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Education: research to practice - measures
$2.0M
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
To improve the sustainability and capacity of biorxiv and medrxiv for making preprints the primary vehicle of dissemination in biomedicine and becoming essential platforms for community review and discussion
$2.0M
Cz Biohub New York Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support chan zuckerberg biohub new york and advance its goal of pursuing grand scientific challenges
$2.0M
National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2022
Center for measurement justice
$2.0M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024
School of medicine - medical training
$1.9M
Beloved Community · New Orleans, LA · 2022
Develop equity assessment platform; support an inaugural convening
$1.8M
Wilcox Health Foundation · Lihue, HI · 2022
Purchase of a ct scanner at wilcox hospital
$1.8M
The Leadership Academy · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Pilot an approach to school and system leader support
$1.7M
Human Cell Atlas · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Science: cell science
$1.7M
Human Cell Atlas · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To support an ecosystem of infrastructure and analysis that accelerates delivery and access for the first draft human cell atlas
$1.6M
The Primary School Bay Area · East Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General operating support
$1.6M
University of Cape Town · 2022
Establishing a microscopy imaging hub to improve access to imaging technology, expertise, and resources
$1.6M
The Just Trust for Education · Durham, NC · 2022
Start-up and operating costs
$1.6M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support the kaua'i medical training track program through the university of hawai'i and the john a. Burns school of medicine
$1.6M
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
For the california community ownership for community power pooled fund
$1.5M
United Kingdom Research and Innovation · 2023
To support the uk biobank repeat imaging project that will create a dataset of medical imaging from more than 60,000 healthy subjects at two points in time as a resource for understanding many diseases
$1.5M
The Pew Charitable Trusts · Washington, DC · 2024
Science: open science
$1.5M
National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2023
To support the strategic planning, startup operations and field-building programs of the center for measurement justice
$1.5M
Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Create prototypes and inform policy for performance-based assessment systems in science
$1.5M
M E B Alliance for Educator Diversity · Austin, TX · 2022
General operating support
$1.5M
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Education and society program
$1.5M
The Seattle Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Grantmakers for thriving youth policy working group
$1.5M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
The starfish institute's beyond100k work
$1.5M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Science: imaging
$1.5M
Gates Philanthropy Partners · Seattle, WA · 2022
Build next-generation sequencing capacity for detecting pathogens
$1.4M
Equal Opportunity Schools · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support and expand a multi-year redesign of the action for equity (a4e) survey and student insight card
$1.4M
University of Hawaii Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Medical training program
$1.4M
Federal Institute of Technology Zurich · 2024
Science: cell science
$1.3M
Carbon180 · Washington, DC · 2023
For general operating support
$1.3M
Carbon180 · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$1.3M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Human cell atlas data ecosystem
$1.3M
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Chan zuckerberg kauai community fund
$1.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Yale center for emotional intelligence
$1.2M
Equal Opportunity Schools · Seattle, WA · 2024
Education: research to practice - measures
$1.2M
Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Science: infectious disease
$1.2M
Regents of the University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Human cell atlas data ecosystem
$1.1M
Search Institute · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To expand the evidence base undergirding the developmental relationships framework for adaptation in culturally diverse and adult relationship contexts and capture evidence for the demand for developmental relationships
$1.1M
Human Cell Atlas · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Human cell atlas data ecosystem
$1.1M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Developing a framework for practitioners: facilitating design and practice in whole child assessments project
$1.1M
Knowledgeworks Foundation · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Partnership with the kentucky department of education on district innovation around assessment redesign

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