Funding search · EIN 461439784 · Princeton, NJ

The Foundation for Excellence in Higher

Name: The Foundation for Excellence in Higher grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

67
grants reported: $22.5M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $301,577
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

flourishing human barry beatrice center civil discourse fellowship

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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.

Harvard University4 grants · $2.0M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania3 grants · $1.9M
The Abigail Adams Institute4 grants · $1.6M
The Morningside Institute4 grants · $1.6M
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters2 grants · $1.5M
Austin Institute Fsofc4 grants · $1.5M
Collegium Institute4 grants · $1.4M
The Berkeley Institute4 grants · $1.3M
The Trustees of Columbia University1 grant · $1.3M
Duke University4 grants · $1.2M

Giving over time

$5.2M

2022

$11.8M

2023

$5.5M

2024

Grant history

All 67 reported grants, largest first.

$1.3M
The Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
General operations
$1.0M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Scholarship, general, human flourishing program
$844,615
The Witherspoon Institute · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General Operations
$754,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$754,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$750,000
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters · Dover, DE · 2023
General operations
$750,000
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters · Dover, DE · 2023
General operations
$622,215
The Morningside Institute · New York, NY · 2024
General operations
$495,000
Austin Institute Fsofc · Austin, TX · 2023
General operations
$490,000
The Abigail Adams Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General operations
$490,000
The Abigail Adams Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General operations
$470,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
General operations
$470,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
General operations
$426,000
The Aquinas Institute · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General operations
$426,000
The Aquinas Institute · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General operations
$420,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General operations
$410,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Paul Mchugh program for human flourishing
$397,850
The Morningside Institute · New York, NY · 2023
General operations
$377,000
Collegium Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General operations
$375,000
Collegium Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$375,000
Collegium Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$375,000
The Abigail Adams Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General operations
$355,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General operations
$343,000
Austin Institute Fsofc · Austin, TX · 2023
General operations
$332,424
Elm Institute · New Haven, CT · 2024
General operations
$325,000
Austin Institute Fsofc · Austin, TX · 2024
General operations
$325,000
Austin Institute Fsofc · Austin, TX · 2022
General operations
$322,722
The Berkeley Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2024
General operations
$321,600
Hyde Park Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operations
$321,600
Hyde Park Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operations
$317,252
The Berkeley Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General operations
$317,252
The Berkeley Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General operations
$312,850
The Morningside Institute · New York, NY · 2023
General operations
$301,577
The Berkeley Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
general operations
$300,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General operations
$300,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General operations
$275,000
Collegium Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General operations
$260,700
Elm Institute · New Haven, CT · 2023
General operations
$260,700
Elm Institute · New Haven, CT · 2023
General operations
$260,000
The Abigail Adams Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General operations
$250,000
Hyde Park Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024
General operations
$250,000
Academic Freedom Alliance · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General Operations
$250,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General operations
$250,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General operations
$250,000
Elm Institute · New Haven, CT · 2022
General operations
$250,000
Hyde Park Institute · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operations
$233,695
The Morningside Institute · New York, NY · 2022
General operations, barry center
$208,000
The Witherspoon Institute · Princeton, NJ · 2024
General Operations
$205,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Civil Discourse Project
$200,000
Forbes Avenue Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
General operations
$200,000
Zephyr Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General operations
$200,000
Zephyr Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General operations
$200,000
Zephyr Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General operations
$184,573
Zephyr Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
General operations
$125,000
The Houston Institute · Houston, TX · 2024
General operations
$125,000
The Houston Institute · Houston, TX · 2023
General operations
$125,000
The Houston Institute · Houston, TX · 2023
General operations
$125,000
The Houston Institute · Houston, TX · 2022
General operations
$100,000
The Witherspoon Institute · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General Operations
$90,061
Academic Freedom Alliance · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General Operations
$75,000
University of Illinois Foundation · Champaign, IL · 2024
General operations
$72,358
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
Postdoc Fellowship
$50,000
Forbes Avenue Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General operations
$50,000
Forbes Avenue Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General operations
$50,000
Forbes Avenue Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Beatrice Institute General Operations
$40,631
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
General operations
$25,000
Hippocratic Society · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General operations

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.