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The Essel Foundation

Name: The Essel Foundation grants, 2021–2024
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.

26
grants reported: $47.1M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $293,037
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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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.

Grant history

All 26 reported grants, largest first.

$10.8M
The Lieber Institute for Brain Dev-See Attached · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$10.0M
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Unsrestricted grant
$8.5M
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$4.9M
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted grant
$2.9M
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation-See Attached · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$2.5M
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$2.5M
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2021
Unsrestricted grant
$1.5M
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$550,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$550,000
Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NE · 2021
Unrestricted grant
$500,000
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted grant
$400,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$400,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2021
Unrestricted grant
$186,074
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$180,000
Poynter Institute · St Petersburg, FL · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$157,000
The Carter Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$155,000
The Carter Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Unrestricted grant
$155,000
The Carter Center · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$78,875
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted grant
$65,388
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$50,000
San Francisco Study Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Unrestricted grant
$35,475
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted grant
$25,000
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2023
Unrestricted grant
$25,000
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2022
Unrestricted grant
$23,271
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Unrestricted grant
$8,191
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted grant

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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.