Funding search · EIN 542074788 · St Louis, MO

James S McDonnell Foundation

Name: James S McDonnell Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

142
grants reported: $51.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $125,000
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.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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The Jsm Charitable Trust1 grant · $7.1M
Forest Park Forever1 grant · $5.1M
St Louis Community Foundation8 grants · $4.6M
Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University5 grants · $3.9M
Federation of American Scientists1 grant · $2.3M
Davis & Elkins College1 grant · $1.2M
Biostl2 grants · $1.1M
University of Washington3 grants · $1.1M
Small Business Empowerment Center1 grant · $1.0M
Habitat for Humanity International1 grant · $900,000

Giving over time

$24.4M

2022

$953

2023

$27.4M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 142 grants.

$7.1M
The Jsm Charitable Trust · St Louis, MO · 2022
Charitable
$5.1M
Forest Park Forever · St Louis, MO · 2024
In support of "forever: the campaign for forest park's future"
$3.4M
Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Umsl school of engineering & student support
$2.3M
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2024
In support of the economic mobility initiative
$1.9M
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Building a framework for lasting wealth: a proposal for baby bonds in st. Louis
$1.2M
Davis & Elkins College · Elkins, WV · 2024
Endowment f/t secure the future campaign, phase ii
$1.0M
Small Business Empowerment Center · St Louis, MO · 2024
St. Louis low-income investment fund and technical assistance (st. Louis lift)
$1.0M
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Guaranteed basic income pilot
$966,000
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Guaranteed basic income pilot
$900,000
Habitat for Humanity International · St Louis, MO · 2024
Building our financial future
$782,500
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund · Clayton, MO · 2024
In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings
$715,691
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Teachers as thinkers: improving classroom communication in mathematics
$684,611
University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2022
Developing a model of teacher learning to support computationally rich communication in science classrooms
$664,816
University of Missouri · St Louis, MO · 2022
Managing students' contributions to mathematical work in whole class discussions in high school: how do teachers decide what to do?
$658,059
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
The development of novice teachers role-identities as discussion facilitators in social studies classrooms
$637,539
Wepower · St Louis, MO · 2024
Developing a data-driven, community-centric strategy to coordinate & transform the st. Louis early childhood system
$578,962
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Intrinsic and extrinsic influences on young children's mathematical abilities
$575,000
St Louis Science Center Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
For the st. Louis science center campaign to be launched in 2024, with the specific purpose of this gift to be decided later
$565,297
Biostl · Saint Louis, MO · 2024
Bioscience workforce collaborative: catalyzing equitable career pathways and enhancing the workforce system to improve economic mobility for opportunity youth
$560,927
Washington University in Saint Louis · St Louis, MO · 2022
Collective memory collaborative
$538,597
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary classrooms
$536,555
Iowa State University · Ames, IA · 2022
Implementing principles from the science of learning within educational practice
$532,602
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Facilitating digital discourse: teachers as learners in a digital age
$514,985
Biostl · Saint Louis, MO · 2024
Biogenerator: building innovation economy leaders through the bioscience equitableleadership (bel) venture fellows program
$503,703
University of California-Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
New teachers learning disciplined improvisation for meaningful talk in diverse classrooms
$503,325
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary classrooms
$500,000
Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2022
Covid-19 consortium for recovery of consciousness
$494,831
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Facilitating digital discourse: teachers as learners in a digital age
$489,645
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
Understanding how elementary teachers take up discussion practices to promote disciplinary learning and equity
$483,168
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, WI · 2022
Teachers learning to facilitate communication and reasoning through inquiry with history and social science sources
$462,295
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Developing a model of teaching learning to support classroom enactment of purposeful sensemaking
$457,999
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Teacher cognition and learning about incorporating science representations in elementary classrooms
$417,786
University of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2022
Theoretical and pedagogical implications of the nonsymbolic ratio processing system
$400,602
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, WI · 2022
Teachers learning to facilitate communication and reasoning through inquiry with history and social science sources
$391,472
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Tracking engagement in human communication from wearable sensors in real-world environments
$350,000
Iff · Chicago, IL · 2024
Joyful spaces
$345,562
Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
The development of novice teachers role-identities as discussion facilitators in social studies classrooms
$343,384
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
Understanding early language environments: analytic techniques and outcome predictions
$331,516
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Advancing st. Louis early childhood education priorities through convening and capacity building
$318,097
Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Teachers as thinkers: improving classroom communication in mathematics
$303,500
Missouri Historical Society Jefferson Memorial Building · St Louis, MO · 2024
For exhibit gallery renovation and exhibit endowment.
$300,026
The Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2024
Developing a model of teacher learning to support computationally rich communication in science classrooms
$300,000
Entrepreneur Startup Business Development Corporation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Arch grants community capital fund
$275,000
International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
General support of the mission
$255,897
Saint Louis University · St Louis, MO · 2022
Understanding and addressing the challenges of student mobility in st. Louis city schools
$250,000
Birkbeck University of London · 2022
Stay cool: the development of self-regulation in mind, brain and body
$250,000
Cardiff University · 2022
Understanding the everyday visual experiences of young children with motor difficulties
$250,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
A coordination approach to early language learning
$250,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
How host glycans shape collective behavior of human microbial communities
$250,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
How transformative experiences shape adult identity development
$250,000
The University of Queensland · 2022
Assessing real-world intelligence in children: a cognitive offloading approachq
$250,000
University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2022
Characterizing infants' everyday motor and object experiences through computer vision analysis of caregiver-captured video surveys
$250,000
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2022
Sensorimotor cascades: integrating real-time movement dynamics during the sleep and awake periods of human infants
$250,000
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · 2022
Developing sensory-cognitive predictors of everyday functioning with visual impairment
$235,000
Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University · St Louis, MO · 2024
To support undergraduates aiming toward and marticulated in the umsl/wustl joint engineering program
$227,000
Goalsetter Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Ferguson florissant financial empowerment project
$225,000
St Louis Life Sciences Project · St Louis, MO · 2024
General purposes
$202,551
Most Policy Initative · Jefferson City, MO · 2022
Charitable
$200,000
Cortex · St Louis, MO · 2024
Assessing impact of first year of missouri tech first
$200,000
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2022
Charitable
$200,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
In support of the postdoctoral fellow's salary, fringes and research plan
$200,000
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
In support of the scientists and engineers in exile or displaced (seed) fund for the purpose of supporting ukrainian scientists
$200,000
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
How teachers learn: orchestrating disciplinary discourse in science, literature, and mathematics classrooms
$193,329
Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University · St Louis, MO · 2024
St. Louis anchor action network capacity building grant
$166,985
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
Regional response team capacity building grant
$155,182
St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
North star community partners capacity building grant
$141,102
Icahn School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2022
Charitable
$131,472
Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Teachers as thinkers: improving classroom communication in mathematics
$125,000
Inserm · 2022
New horizons and a time-scale for learning transfer
$125,000
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY · 2022
Do tactile exploratory behaviors predict language development in deaf signing children?
$125,000
University of California-Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
A methodology for studying the dynamics of resilience of college students
$125,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
A naturalistic examination of the listening environment and its role on development
$125,000
University of Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2022
Context-specific speech perception and barriers to successful communication between healthcare providers and aging patients
$125,000
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2022
The embodied emergence of social communication : implications for autism in infancy
$125,000
University of Texas at El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2022
Effects of financial concerns on low-income parents' speech to children
$125,000
University of Wisconsin - Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
The development of higher-order cognition: words, categories, and concepts
$120,000
St Louis Zoo Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2024
The campaign for the st. Louis zoo
$111,082
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Understanding the development of early mathematics knowledge
$110,000
The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · St Louis, MO · 2024
Challenge grant - to endow and support the new initiative in palliative care and formation of the institute for supportive care at bjc health (isc).
$104,727
Curators of the University of Missouri · Columbia, MO · 2024
Civic collaboration fellows: building leadership capacity for economic mobility
$100,750
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund · Clayton, MO · 2024
In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings
$100,000
Masters Chancellor and Scholars of the University of Cambridge · 2024
Emergence and self-organization of patterns in planetary polar atmospheres
$100,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Classinsight: insight on teacher learning by scaffolding noticing and reflection
$100,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Microbial landscape ecology: matters of space and scale
$100,000
Ecole Normale Superieure · 2022
Early language acquisition: beyond weird
$100,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Understanding fossil plant-insect interactions: a complex systems approach
$100,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Learning in early childhood: a computational cognitive development approach
$100,000
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Using automated controlled rearing to explore the origins of the mind
$100,000
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich · 2022
The emergence and early development of morality
$100,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
An integrative computational account of language and locomotion
$100,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Multi-scale models of dormancy systems: from spider mite diapause to disseminated tumor cells quiescence
$100,000
Nus America Foundation · Sunnyvale, CA · 2022
In support of the postdoctoral fellow's salary, fringe benefits and research plan
$100,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Emergent swarming behaviors through hydrodynamic feedback
$100,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2022
Responding to imminent threat: a developmental approach
$100,000
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2022
Cognitive foundations of distinctively human social learning
$100,000
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Developing mathematical skills and motivation
$100,000
University of California-Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Evolutionary forces shape adaptive immune repertoires across scales of biological organization
$100,000
University of California-Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Learning to learn: how polysemy scaffolds development
$100,000
University of California-Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Understanding the emergence of speech vocalizations in human infancy
$100,000
University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · 2022
How the dynamics of early interactions shape word learning

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