The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for

What they fund

researcheventinternationaltravelengagingstrategyfellowscience

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.

15 grants matching “software” · $15.8M

• $1.9M

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for the university of cambridge scientific software center

• $1.5M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Support for the university of washington scientific software center

• $1.4M

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support for schmidt software engineering center (ssec) at the johns hopkins university

• $1.0M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  Support for caltech academy for software engineering 2.0

• $950,500

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support for schmidt software engineering center (ssec) at the johns hopkins university

• $587,500

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support for schmidt software engineering center (ssec) at the johns hopkins university

• $133,000

  Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024

  To support osint software to detect and predict sanction evasion and illicit funding streams using ai.

• $2.2M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Caltech software academy

• $1.8M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Caltech software academy

• $1.6M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023

  The university of washington scientific software center

• $964,687

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2023

  The university of cambridge vesri core team scientific software center (vesri-cc) llc interest date: 12/31/2023 fair market value: 964,687

• $755,313

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2023

  The university of cambridge vesri core team scientific software center (vesri-cc)

• $250,000

  Atlantic Council of the U S · Washington, DC · 2023

  Securing the future of open source software

• $500,000

  Atlantic Council of the US · Washington, DC · 2022

  Securing the future of open source software

• $250,000

  Albany Can Code · East Greenbush, NY · 2022

  Making all new yorkers digitally literate: statewide expansion of cancode model for digital literacy & software job training

Top recipients

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

• The Rhodes Trust13 grants · $81.4M
• Convergent Research12 grants · $59.0M
• California Institute of Technology17 grants · $26.0M
• Kyutai2 grants · $21.5M
• Future House2 grants · $19.2M
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology15 grants · $14.8M
• Barack Obama Foundation1 grant · $10.0M
• Digital Harbor Foundation4 grants · $9.6M
• Cambridge in America9 grants · $8.9M
• European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern)1 grant · $8.5M

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 794 grants.

• $15.8M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To support convergent research and its focused research organizations

• $12.5M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2024

  General operating support

• $12.5M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2022

  General operating support rise-related gift to rhodes

• $11.0M

  Kyutai · 2023

  General support for the endowment of kyutai for scientific and educational open source ai research.

• $10.4M

  Kyutai · 2024

  To provide general support

• $10.0M

  Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support the obama presidential center

• $10.0M

  Future House · Sherborn, MA · 2024

  To provide support for futurehouse ai scientist program

• $9.2M

  Future House · Sherborn, MA · 2023

  Support for scientific institute focused on accelerating biological research through machine learning

• $9.2M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Cash - $8,200,000llc interest - $964,687valuation method: fair market valuedate of gift: 12/31/2022purpose: general operations and focused research organizations.

• $8.5M

  European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) · 2023

  To provide support for the nextgen triggers project.

• $8.1M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2024

  Support for rhodes trust science fellowship

• $8.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To provide support for scientific focused research

• $8.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To provide support for eve (everything vs. Everything) fro.

• $7.5M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2023

  To support the rise program

• $7.0M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2024

  Awards earmarked to 105 individuals in the schmidt science fellowship program

• $6.1M

  Digital Harbor Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support to implement the learning engineering virtual institute

• $6.0M

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To support mit's plasma science and fusion center

• $5.9M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2024

  Awards earmarked to 305 individuals in the rise program

• $5.9M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2023

  Awards earmarked to 92 individuals in the schmidt science fellowship program

• $5.6M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2022

  Rhodes trust science fellowship

• $5.2M

  Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2023

  Quad fellowship award

• $5.1M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2022

  Awards earmarked to 88 individuals in the schmidt science fellowship program

• $4.8M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  Support for dsa-2000: revolutionizing access to the radio sky

• $4.5M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  Support for clima: climate modeling alliance 2024

• $4.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To provide support for focused research organization

• $3.8M

  The Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  The schmidt center ds4e

• $3.8M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Clima: climate modeling alliance 2023

• $3.6M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2023

  Rise, an initiative of schmidt futures and the rhodes trust

• $3.5M

  University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  To provide support for incubating a market shaping hub and concepts competition at uchicago.

• $3.5M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2023

  Awards earmarked to 250 individuals in the rise program

• $3.1M

  The Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  The schmidt center ds4e

• $3.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To provide support for scientific focused research

• $3.0M

  Ganna Walska Lotusland · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

  To provide support to establish an employee assistance endowment fund

• $3.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To provide support for parallelsquared technology institute phase 1.

• $3.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To provide support for immune-omics fro [ifro].

• $3.0M

  Fondazione Bologna University Business School · 2022

  The schmidt center for executive education on a.i.

• $2.9M

  Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024

  Support for schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.9M

  Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide support for the quad fellowship program

• $2.8M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2022

  Rise, an initiative of schmidt futures and the rhodes trust

• $2.7M

  Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · Cary, NC · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.6M

  University of Reading · 2023

  Land ecosystem models based on new theory, observations, and experiments (lemontree)

• $2.6M

  Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.5M

  Uc San Diego Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.5M

  Cornell University · New York, NY · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.4M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  The dsa-2000 radio camera: revolutionizing access to the radio sky

• $2.3M

  Eedi Ltd · 2022

  To provide support for enhancing learning through understanding and surfacing misconception. (ml model for misconceptions)

• $2.3M

  University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $2.3M

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for scientific research on m2lines - multiscale machine learning in coupled earth system modeling

• $2.3M

  Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique · 2024

  Support for the scale-aware sea ice project

• $2.2M

  University of Western Ontario · 2024

  To provide support for scientific focused research

• $2.2M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Caltech software academy

• $2.1M

  Science and Technology Futures · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To provide support for open datasets initiative.

• $2.1M

  University of Reading · 2022

  Support for the land ecosystem models based on new theory, observations, and experiments (lemontree) vesri project

• $2.0M

  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Arts and Sciences Foundation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  Support for the argus observatory low cost access to the deep, high cadence sky

• $2.0M

  Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  Support for scientific research on sargassum seaweed as a future renewable feedstock for sustainable biomanufacturing

• $2.0M

  Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique · 2023

  The scale-aware sea ice project (sasip) scientific research

• $2.0M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To provide support for chi fro ai scientific research

• $2.0M

  UK Office of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation · 2022

  Ukraine relief fund support for victims of war in ukraine

• $1.9M

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for the university of cambridge scientific software center

• $1.9M

  The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2024

  Support for scientific research on converting inconsistent and heterogeneous biomass and municipal solid wastes into de-mineralized and uniform feedstocks for thermal-catalytic processing to low carbon fuels, chemicals,… read allSupport for scientific research on converting inconsistent and heterogeneous biomass and municipal solid wastes into de-mineralized and uniform feedstocks for thermal-catalytic processing to low carbon fuels, chemicals, and materials less
• $1.9M

  New York University · New York, NY · 2023

  M2lines - multiscale machine learning in coupled earth system modeling

• $1.9M

  Battelle Memorial Institute · Columbus, OH · 2024

  Support for separations technologies that enable production and use of high-value biomass streams from agricultural and food processing wastes

• $1.9M

  New York University · New York, NY · 2022

  M2lines - multiscale machine learning in coupled earth system modeling

• $1.8M

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for advancing ai in scientific research

• $1.8M

  Governing Council of the University of Toronto · 2023

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $1.8M

  Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  Support for schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $1.8M

  University of Cape Town · 2024

  Support for scientific research on oxygen and biogeochemical dynamics along the west african margin: processes and consequences

• $1.8M

  Science for America · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General support

• $1.8M

  University of Reading · 2024

  Support for land ecosystem models based on new theory, observations, and experiments (lemontree)

• $1.8M

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Caltech software academy

• $1.7M

  Cambridge in America · New York, NY · 2023

  Advancing ai in scientific research at the university of cambridge

• $1.7M

  Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique · 2022

  The scale-aware sea ice project (sasip)

• $1.7M

  University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Support for scientific research on animals as living bioreactors: the role of animal gut microbiomes in shaping oceanic carbon cycling and export

• $1.6M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023

  The university of washington scientific software center

• $1.5M

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Support for scientific research on a collaborative approach to converting industry waste into food and feed ingredients

• $1.5M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $1.5M

  Swaniti Initiative · Houston, TX · 2024

  To provide support for carbon negative rice cultivation in india.

• $1.5M

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023

  National academies science communications award

• $1.5M

  Digital Harbor Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  To provide support for retrofitting coal plants for biomass carbon removal.

• $1.5M

  Digital Harbor Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  To provide general operating support for the neighborhood project.

• $1.5M

  Science and Technology Futures · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  To provide support for open datasets initiative.

• $1.5M

  Rising International Education and Learning Limited · 2022

  To provide support for ai powered chatbot that serves as a personalized math tutor for low-income students.

• $1.5M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for crisis response program

• $1.5M

  Hospital for Special Surgery · New York, NY · 2023

  Creation of the orthopedic data innovation lab (odil) at the hospital for special surgery

• $1.5M

  Swaniti Initiative · Houston, TX · 2023

  To provide support for carbon negative rice cultivation in india.

• $1.5M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Support for the university of washington scientific software center

• $1.4M

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support for schmidt software engineering center (ssec) at the johns hopkins university

• $1.4M

  University of Arizona Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  Support for large fiber array spectroscopic telescope (lfast) development

• $1.4M

  Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine · 2022

  Schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $1.4M

  National Science Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2022

  To provide support for k12 education research, training, and infrastructure partnership.

• $1.4M

  National Science Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2022

  To provide support for k12 education research, training, and infrastructure partnership.

• $1.4M

  Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Support for the lincc analysis framework: an open, scalable system for science with the lsst

• $1.4M

  The Rhodes Trust · 2022

  Awards earmarked to 474 individuals in the rise program

• $1.4M

  Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $1.4M

  Elicsir Foundation Ets · 2024

  Support for italian computer science innovation and research

• $1.4M

  University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2024

  Support for fetch4: fate, emissions, and transport of ch4 in past and modern atmospheres

• $1.3M

  The Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Support for building the circular bioeconomy with future feedstocks in the north san joaquin valley

• $1.3M

  Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine · 2024

  Support for schmidt ai in science postdocs

• $1.3M

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2023

  Weaving artificial intelligence throughout the mount sinai health system

• $1.3M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Support for the lincc analysis framework: an open, scalable system for science with the lsst

View all 794 grants →

Who else funds this kind of work