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High Meadows Foundation

Name: High Meadows 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.

60
grants reported: $31.2M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $300,000
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

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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

Environmental Defense Fund4 grants · $9.5M
Trustees of Princeton University14 grants · $6.0M
Climate Central4 grants · $2.3M
High Meadows Institute3 grants · $2.3M
Caf America3 grants · $2.3M
Harvard Business School4 grants · $2.0M
The Wilderness Society4 grants · $1.3M
Let'S Grow Kids4 grants · $1.2M
Vermont Community Foundation2 grants · $1.1M
High Meadows Graduate School of Teaching and Learning1 grant · $1.0M

Giving over time

$10.3M

2022

$8.4M

2023

$7.7M

2024

$4.9M

2025

Grant history

All 60 reported grants, largest first.

$3.0M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Payment for continuing support of environmental research
$3.0M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Payment for continuing support of environmental research
$3.0M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Payment for continuing support of environmental research
$1.0M
Climate Central · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable acitities
$1.0M
High Meadows Graduate School of Teaching and Learning · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$998,260
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2025
Payment for support of pace center for community service
$986,200
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Payment for support of pace center high meadows fellows program
$922,500
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Payment for support of pace center high meadows fellows program
$904,838
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Payment for support of pace center high meadows fellows program
$750,000
Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$750,000
Climate Central · Princeton, NJ · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable acitities
$750,000
Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$750,000
High Meadows Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$750,000
Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$750,000
High Meadows Institute · Boston, MA · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$750,000
High Meadows Institute · Boston, MA · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$590,485
Vermont Community Foundation · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$500,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2025
Environmental research
$500,000
Harvard Business School · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Payment for continuing support of the baker library
$500,000
Harvard Business School · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Payment for continuing support of the baker library
$500,000
Harvard Business School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Payment for continuing support of the baker library
$500,000
Vermont Community Foundation · Middlebury, VT · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$500,000
Harvard Business School · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Payment for continuing support of the baker library
$500,000
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$400,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2025
Payment for support of the center for policy research on energy and the environment
$400,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Payment for support of the center for policy research on energy and the environment
$400,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Payment for support of the center for policy research on energy and the environment
$400,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Payment for support of the center for policy research on energy and the environment
$300,000
Let'S Grow Kids · Middlebury, VT · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$300,000
Let'S Grow Kids · Middlebury, VT · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$300,000
Let'S Grow Kids · Middlebury, VT · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$300,000
Let'S Grow Kids · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$300,000
North Bennet Street School · Boston, MA · 2022
Payment for support of their educational programs
$250,000
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$250,000
Climate Central · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable acitities
$250,000
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$250,000
Climate Central · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable acitities
$250,000
The Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$250,000
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$250,000
West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$250,000
The Food Project · Lincoln, MA · 2022
Payment for support of program to grow healthy crops
$250,000
The Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$110,687
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Payment to support annual giving fund
$102,500
West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Evergreen Climate Innovations · Chicago, IL · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2025
Payment for support of pace center for civic engagement
$100,000
Evergreen Climate Innovations · Chicago, IL · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Payment for support of pace center for civic engagement
$100,000
West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2024
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Evergreen Climate Innovations · Chicago, IL · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Payment for support of pace center for community service
$100,000
Clean Energy Trust · Chicago, IL · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$100,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Payment for support of wbur 90.9
$100,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Payment for support of pace center for community service
$100,000
West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2022
Payment to carry on charitable activities
$30,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Payment for support of the annual giving class of '64

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