Funding search · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · grants
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation: all 4,004 grants
Largest first · $1.46B across 2020–2024 · back to the overview
- $740,110
University of North Carolina Wilmington · Wilmington, NC · 2022
In support of continued seahawk-1 satellite operations to expand the scientific user base, validate its unique capabilities and advance research on coastal oceanography.
- $740,000
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support banks and investors to adopt sustainable seafood finance policies that address habitat conversion, overfishing, and illegality risks.
- $739,707
Regents of the University of California · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To support building a stem workforce in hawai'i through the akamai internship program.
- $738,422
California Academy of Sciences · San Francisco, CA · 2020
In support of the continued growth of iNaturalist, including technical enhancements to assist with biodiversity monitoring and efforts to broaden community participation.
- $738,058
Wild Me · Portland, OR · 2020
In support of a data-driven system that turns crowdsourced photographs and videos into information about wildlife.
- $735,855
American Physical Society · College Park, MD · 2023
To increase the number of women in undergraduate physics.
- $729,283
Stiftelsen the Stockholm Environment Institute · 2020
To scale up Trase, the world's first open-access commodity supply-chain intelligence platform for sustainability.
- $725,686
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society · 2022
To advance habitat protection.
- $723,597
Regents of the University of California · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
To support building a stem workforce in hawai'i through the akamai internship program.
- $722,125
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To identify challenges and design optimal implementation strategies for a patient reported measure for diagnostic excellence in emergency departments and submit for endorsement by the national quality forum.
- $720,645
American Physical Society · College Park, MD · 2022
To increase the number of women in undergraduate physics.
- $719,672
Regents of the University of California · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
To support building a stem workforce in hawai'i through the akamai internship program.
- $717,875
Clark University · Worcester, MA · 2024
To complete a set of time-series, coastal habitat conversion maps from 1999 to 2022 for five countries where farmed shrimp production is concentrated.
- $715,025
Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
In support of developing a room temperature terahertz spectrometer for astronomy.
- $714,916
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support developing a unique pendulum atomic force microscope to image the local dynamics of quantum fluctuations of emergent quantum states in strongly correlated materials with atomic-scale resolution at very low te… read allTo support developing a unique pendulum atomic force microscope to image the local dynamics of quantum fluctuations of emergent quantum states in strongly correlated materials with atomic-scale resolution at very low temperatures. less
- $705,343
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the greening of china-brazil beef and soy trade.
- $703,544
Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To search for clues about what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics, using the experimental toolbox of quantum computing.
- $700,000
Beijing Chaoyang District Yongxu Global Environmental Institute · 2024
To promote trade in sustainable agriculture products.
- $700,000
Climate Policy Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2024
In support of improving the financial framework to foster deforestation- and conversion-free production.
- $700,000
Oceans North Conservation Society · 2024
In support of durable sustainable fisheries management.
- $700,000
Carnegie Institution of Washington · Pasadena, CA · 2023
In support of method development and creation of cell atlases for model squid organisms and their symbionts.
- $700,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support the development of a theoretically-grounded and practical framework for continuous safety monitoring of clinical machine learning devices by leveraging automated real-time audits of individual predictions (fr… read allTo support the development of a theoretically-grounded and practical framework for continuous safety monitoring of clinical machine learning devices by leveraging automated real-time audits of individual predictions (frap). less
- $700,000
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance · Washington, DC · 2023
To ensure online, transparency-related tools are up to date and in use by a growing cohort of government, industry, and civil society entities, including vessel viewer, a rapid risk assessment for use by the insurance i… read allTo ensure online, transparency-related tools are up to date and in use by a growing cohort of government, industry, and civil society entities, including vessel viewer, a rapid risk assessment for use by the insurance industry. less
- $700,000
Rainforest Alliance · New York, NY · 2023
To support broad uptake of the accountability framework to strengthen action on deforestation- and conversion-free commodity sourcing.
- $700,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
In support of the science philanthropy alliance's 2023 activities to strengthen philanthropic support for basic research.
- $700,000
STEM Next Opportunity Fund · San Diego, CA · 2023
In support of research and design for effective out-of-school time science and engineering learning pathways.
- $700,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To investigate the existence of new long range interactions or deviations from the inverse square law of gravity at the submicron scale using, for the first time, nuclear transitions.
- $700,000
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support banks and investors to adopt sustainable seafood finance policies that address habitat conversion, overfishing, and illegality risks.
- $700,000
Clark University · Worcester, MA · 2022
To complete a time-series set of coastal habitat conversion maps from 1999 to 2022 for 17 countries where shrimp aquaculture occurs.
- $700,000
National Wildlife Federation · Reston, VA · 2022
In support of the implementation of credible monitoring, verification, and reporting tools for meatpackers in south america.
- $700,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support development of techniques for lowering entropy of cold atoms in optical lattices with single atom detection.
- $700,000
Rainforest Alliance · New York, NY · 2022
To support broad uptake of the accountability framework to strengthen action on deforestation- and conversion-free commodity sourcing.
- $700,000
Climate Policy Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To support an integrated strategy for environmentally and socially responsible infrastructure development in Para, Brazil.
- $700,000
Instituto Internacional De Educacao Do Brasil · 2020
To enhance participatory processes for regional development planning in Brazil.
- $700,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2020
In support of continued development of Vega and Altair, a visualization grammar for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs in data science applications.
- $699,976
Partnership for Public Service · Washington, DC · 2024
In support of enhancing the u.s. Forest service's ability to attract and retain talent for priority conservation and science roles.
- $699,909
Regents of the University of California · La Jolla, CA · 2022
To support liger at the keck observatory through its final design.
- $699,828
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance · Washington, DC · 2024
To ensure online, transparency-related tools are up to date and in use by a growing cohort of government, industry, and civil society entities, including vessel viewer, a rapid risk assessment for use by the insurance i… read allTo ensure online, transparency-related tools are up to date and in use by a growing cohort of government, industry, and civil society entities, including vessel viewer, a rapid risk assessment for use by the insurance industry. less
- $698,949
The University of Warwick · 2024
To support new concepts and technologies to advance knowledge about aquatic symbioses.
- $693,407
Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2024
In support of strengthening connection and collaboration between community members of moorea and scientists who visit the island to carry out research.
- $690,900
Makeway Foundation · 2023
To support inuit-led habitat protection and stewardship of the eastern canadian arctic ocean.
- $690,000
Science Communication Lab · Berkeley, CA · 2022
In support of efforts to better understand and enhance public engagement with data.
- $688,231
Aid for Threatened Wildlife - Frankfurt Zoological · 2020
To improve consolidation conditions for six protected areas and indigenous lands in the Upper Purus mosaic (5.8 million hectares).
- $684,000
Ocean Conservancy · Washington, DC · 2022
To improve tuna fisheries management in the eastern pacific ocean and beyond with the application of better decision support tools.
- $680,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
In support of research to develop an innovative instrument that will enable researchers unprecedented access to the chemical composition and distribution of small molecules within cells at nanometer resolution.
- $678,449
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
To secure protections for and improved management of the bering and chukchi seas.
- $675,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
In support of a three-dimensional electronic chip capable of monitoring and detecting volatile chemicals from hospital patients to improve diagnosis.
- $672,513
The Board of Trustees - Leland Stanford Jr Univ · Stanford, CA · 2020
To develop a novel gravitational wave detector based on atomic sensors.
- $667,161
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To support coverage of stories examining how and whether advances in health technology will improve health and health outcomes.
- $666,667
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
In support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electr… read allIn support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electron microscopy. less
- $666,667
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
In support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electr… read allIn support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electron microscopy. less
- $666,667
Regents of the University of California · Santa Barbara, CA · 2020
In support of building an interdisciplinary community of researchers and students to break down barriers between disciplines and seek to expand the intellectual reach of physics into fundamental problems of living matte… read allIn support of building an interdisciplinary community of researchers and students to break down barriers between disciplines and seek to expand the intellectual reach of physics into fundamental problems of living matter. less
- $666,667
Slac National Accelerator Laboratory · Menlo Park, CA · 2020
In support of a week-long science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) summer camp for high school girls at Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories.
- $666,666
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
In support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electr… read allIn support of the development and adoption of aspire (algorithms for single particle reconstruction), an open-source python software package for three-dimensional structure determination of macromolecules by cryo-electron microscopy. less
- $666,420
Rare · Arlington, VA · 2020
In support of scaling up adoption of behavioral science in environmental conservation through the Center for Behavior & the Environment.
- $666,170
Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2023
In support of the development and dissemination of an evaluation framework, approaches, and targeted capacity building that supports effective community science.
- $666,153
Regents of the University of Idaho · Boise, ID · 2023
In support of bringing evidence to policymaking through the idaho science policy fellowship program.
- $666,096
University College London · 2020
In support of research that unites biophysics, quantum optics theory and nanophotonic technology to obtain signatures of quantum mechanical effects in single biomolecules.
- $664,399
Instituto Socioambiental · 2020
To support effective management of protected areas and indigenous lands in the Xingu Mosaic.
- $663,869
Boston Globe Life Sciences Media Llc · Boston, MA · 2022
To support journalism examining how to implement and govern artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for patients and minimize harm.
- $663,660
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2020
In support of investigations of strongly correlated materials and exotic quantum fluids using scanning tunneling microscopy and spin noise spectroscopy.
- $662,574
University System of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2024
In support of investigating how archaeal responses to dna damage may have served as a predecessor to the emergence of sexual reproduction in microbial eukaryotes.
- $660,000
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support efforts to create and study the properties of the first bose-einstein condensate of ultracold dipolar molecules.
- $654,607
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
In support of theoretical research to develop non-equilibrium computer simulations of molecular motors that lie at the core of cellular dynamics.
- $654,606
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
In support of theoretical research to develop non-equilibrium computer simulations of molecular motors that lie at the core of cellular dynamics.
- $653,000
Derecho Ambiente Y Recursos Naturales · 2023
To uphold and improve the legal frameworks for biological conservation, protected areas, and indigenous lands in the face of planned expansion of infrastructure and extractive industries in peru.
- $650,000
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024
In support of developing, testing, and installing an ultralow-vibration helium reliquefier prototype as part of a 3he/4he dilution refrigerator for quantum experiments.
- $650,000
Fishchoice · Fort Collins, CO · 2024
To expand industry use of fisheryprogress.org and fishchoice.com, thus enabling and incentivizing seafood companies to improve sourcing decisions and management improvements in wild capture, commercial seafood productio… read allTo expand industry use of fisheryprogress.org and fishchoice.com, thus enabling and incentivizing seafood companies to improve sourcing decisions and management improvements in wild capture, commercial seafood production. less
- $650,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024
To support marine habitat conservation.
- $650,000
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
In support of durable marine conservation in british columbia.
- $650,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the creation of novel hybrid states of matter through strong magnon-photon interaction in materials coupled with microwave cavities.
- $650,000
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2023
To accelerate the application of on-board electronic monitoring systems on tuna fishing vessels in the pacific and indian oceans.
- $650,000
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To ensure adherence to and verification of best practices in tuna fishing through industry adoption of sustainability standards, engagement in tuna regional fisheries management organization (rfmo) governance, and impro… read allTo ensure adherence to and verification of best practices in tuna fishing through industry adoption of sustainability standards, engagement in tuna regional fisheries management organization (rfmo) governance, and improved transparency of operations. less
- $650,000
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2022
To increase the share of seafood products that are sourced from fishing companies that have publicly committed to using on-board electronic monitoring to verify their products' sustainability and legality.
- $650,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2020
In support of sustainable ocean management.
- $650,000
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2020
To support outreach and education to conserve marine habitat.
- $649,332
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To support development of methodology and software to allow in-silico assessment of the usefulness and fairness of clinical machine learning models using a "virtual model deployment."
- $647,897
University System of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2022
In support of investigating how archaeal responses to dna damage may have served as a predecessor to the emergence of sexual reproduction in microbial eukaryotes.
- $645,484
The Exploratorium · San Francisco, CA · 2022
In support of strategic planning efforts to inform future priorities and actions.
- $644,375
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
In support of theoretical and synthesis efforts to stabilize high-temperature hydrogen chalcogenide superconductors at ambient pressure using a novel reactor for electrochemical thin-film synthesis.
- $642,587
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2023
In support of placing phd-level science and technology policy fellows in the u.s. Congress to provide expert advice on artificial intelligence.
- $638,805
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To accelerate habitat conversion-free production of farmed shrimp and other seafood-related farmed commodities.
- $633,334
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
In support of research to determine the structural and electronic mechanisms behind long-distance electron transfer in cable bacteria.
- $633,333
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
In support of research to determine the structural and electronic mechanisms behind long-distance electron transfer in cable bacteria.
- $630,325
Universitaet Konstanz · 2024
To support new concepts and technologies to advance knowledge about aquatic symbioses.
- $630,000
Clark University · Worcester, MA · 2020
To develop automated spatial and temporal maps of coastal habitat cover and land-use change by which to evaluate the impacts of shrimp farming on mangrove forests.
- $627,760
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2020
In support of scientific research aimed at harnessing the power of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to directly probe electronic excitations in topological and correlated quantum materials.
- $627,000
Climate Advisers · Washington, DC · 2022
To enhance u.s. Leadership support for curbing tropical deforestation.
- $626,780
Eth Zurich Foundation · 2020
To support new concepts and technologies to advance knowledge about aquatic symbioses.
- $625,539
Universiteit Leiden · 2020
To support developing new tools, methods, and resources for aquatic symbiosis model systems.
- $625,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
In support of the integration of oceanographic data with turtle tracking tags to study movement ecology.
- $625,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
In support of the integration of oceanographic data with turtle tracking tags to study movement ecology.
- $625,000
Activate Global · Berkeley, CA · 2020
To support resources and fellowships for scientist-entrepreneurs to transform their discoveries into applications that will benefit society.
- $624,493
Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the development of new instrumentation for electron energy loss spectroscopy, capable of measuring low-energy bosonic excitations in strongly correlated materials.
- $624,000
Fundacao Getulio Vargas · 2024
To support the adoption of a territorial governance mechanism along the br-319 corridor in amazonas state, brazil.
- $621,771
Makauila · Honolulu, HI · 2024
To support the development of a culturally-centered governance model for mutual stewardship of maunakea.
- $621,771
Makauila · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support the development of a culturally-centered governance model for mutual stewardship of maunakea.
- $620,000
National Geographic Society · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a pilot study for the urban exploration project, aimed at improving our understanding of animal behavior in human-modified landscapes.
- $620,000
Ocean Conservancy · Washington, DC · 2020
To improve tuna fisheries management in the eastern Pacific Ocean and beyond with the application of better decision support tools.
- $617,748
Makeway Foundation · 2020
To support the resilience of Inuit communities in Nunavut to ensure the durability of healthy ocean ecosystem solutions.

