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The Michelson Foundation

Name: The Michelson Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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.

51
grants reported: $3.6M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

cardiovascular leukemia lymphocytic research treatment

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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.

Top recipients

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

Mayo Clinic2 grants · $1.1M
Better Angels Society - the American Revolution3 grants · $499,999
Vanderbilt University Blair Community Scholars Pr1 grant · $453,140
The Better Angels Society1 grant · $333,333
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art1 grant · $250,000
The Metropolitan Opera3 grants · $150,000
Book Book Go3 grants · $125,000
American Enterprise Institute3 grants · $105,000
Eagles Autism Foundation3 grants · $90,000
Teach for America (Annual Benefit)2 grants · $50,000

Giving over time

$1.5M

2022

$725,266

2023

$371,667

2024

$961,473

2025

Grant history

All 51 reported grants, largest first.

$900,000
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2022
Treatment of Lymphocytic Leukemia
$453,140
Vanderbilt University Blair Community Scholars Pr · Nashville, TN · 2025
Unrestricted
$333,333
The Better Angels Society · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$250,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2023
Unrestricted
$166,667
Better Angels Society - the American Revolution · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$166,666
Better Angels Society - the American Revolution · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$166,666
Better Angels Society - the American Revolution · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$150,000
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2022
Cardiovascular Research
$50,000
Book Book Go · Warson Woods, MO · 2025
Unrestricted
$50,000
Child Mind Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$50,000
Ertz Family Foundation · Alpharetta, GA · 2024
Unrestricted
$50,000
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$50,000
Book Book Go · St Louis, MO · 2023
Unrestricted
$50,000
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$50,000
Bryn Mawr College · Bryn Mawr, PA · 2022
Unrestricted
$50,000
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$35,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$35,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$35,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$35,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$30,000
Eagles Autism Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$30,000
Eagles Autism Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$30,000
Eagles Autism Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Unrestricted
$25,000
Teach for America · New York City, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$25,000
Teach for America (Annual Benefit) · New York City, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$25,000
City Year · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$25,000
Teach for America (Annual Benefit) · New York City, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$25,000
The Be Kind People Project · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023
Unrestricted
$25,000
Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music · Nashville, TN · 2023
Unrestricted
$25,000
Book Book Go · St Louis, MO · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
City Year · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Michael J Fox Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Kukio Ho'Omana Fund · Kailua Kona, HI · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,000
Libertas College Preparatory · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,000
Kukio Ho'Omana Fund · Kailua Kona, HI · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
Grants Central Station (Maui Rapid Response) · Kihei, HI · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
International Churchill Society · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Descanso Gardens Foundation · La Canada Flintridge, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Unrestricted
$7,500
International Churchill Society · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Jones-Gordon Foundation · Paradise Valley, AZ · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Navy Seal Foundation · Virginia Beach, VA · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Team Impact · Quincy, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Good Tidings Foundation · Burlingame, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Hypopara Research Foundation · San Mateo, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,400
Semper Fi & America'S Fund (in Memory of Dan McQu · Oceanside, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Truman Library Institution · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Truman Library Institution · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Unrestricted
$200
Harvard Magazine · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$200
Harvard Magazine · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.