Funding search · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · grants
Laura and John Arnold Foundation: all 2,588 grants
Largest first · $754.5M across 2020–2024 · back to the overview
- $675,000
Project On Predatory Student Lending · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2023
To provide general operating support.
- $674,982
Continuum Health Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2022
To improve drug and biologic evidentiary standards and clinical trial data transparency at the u.s. Food and drug administration.
- $674,291
Purchaser Business Group On Health · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To educate the policymakers, employers and the media on health care pricing.
- $671,970
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
To support the administration of the blueprints for healthy youth development initiative, an online registry of evidence-based programs in youth development.
- $671,025
Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2020
To help reimagine the american prison system through strategic communications and expanding and evaluating the restoring promise initiative.
- $670,128
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the change in policy governing police department use and documentation of pretextual stops.
- $670,000
University of California College of the Law San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To analyze policy solutions aimed at improving coordination between the fda and the uspto, while focusing on ensuring competition in the case of pharmaceutical mergers.
- $666,516
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To identify and highlight low-value medical practices and work with policymakers/payers to reduce the use of such practices.
- $665,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To analyze a series of developments in prescription drug markets with the goal of understanding the consequences of various responses policy makers might adopt to the resulting market dynamics.
- $663,871
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2023
To conduct a randomized control trial to examine the impact of medical cannabis on opioid analgesic use.
- $660,000
University of California College of the Law San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To analyze policy solutions aimed at improving coordination between the fda and the uspto, while focusing on ensuring competition in the case of pharmaceutical mergers.
- $655,000
National Association of Counties Research Foundation · Washington, DC · 2020
To continue management, support, and expansion of the data-driven justice project.
- $650,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To evaluate newly approved cancer drugs while developing policy related to the approval and coverage of novel molecular tests and screening technologies.
- $650,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the catalyze challenge.
- $650,000
Center for Children'S Law and Policy · Washington, DC · 2020
To support reducing and ending solitary confinement for youth in custody.
- $649,400
New York University · New York, NY · 2020
To provide global benchmarks for mass-transit costs.
- $646,049
Minnesota Department of Human Services · St Paul, MN · 2023
To fund the implementation and scale up of a substance use prevention program for middle school students.
- $643,963
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To provide research and technical assistance in revising california's penal code.
- $640,862
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
To support center for advancing the study of health care research.
- $634,100
University of Cincinnati Research Institute · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
To evaluate the effects of police reforms in new jersey.
- $621,822
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024
To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.
- $620,093
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To examine mega-health systems that span states, markets, and service lines with the goal of understanding underlying economic mechanisms.
- $620,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To support analysis of alternative audit methods.
- $617,970
Land Use Atlas · Washington, DC · 2024
To support grantee's national zoning atlas and its efforts to support zoning code reform by documenting information about zoning codes in six states: alaska, arizona, georgia, north carolina, utah, and colorado.
- $617,000
Health Care Cost Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To inform policymakers of the factors that drive high healthcare spending and potential policy interventions.
- $616,618
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To conduct research and policy translation related to insurance design and market structure in the united states healthcare system.
- $615,000
United States of Care Campaign · Washington, DC · 2023
To engage stakeholders on hospital pricing practices.
- $614,342
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To develop a structured battery of statistical methods for measuring racial bias at various stages of the traffic enforcement process.
- $610,483
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To conduct a mega study - a large-scale randomized controlled trial that aims to simultaneously evaluate ten different low-cost interventions that support first-year college students.
- $608,635
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To support policies for the effective regulation and functioning of prescription drug markets.
- $601,976
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support the prison and jail innovation lab with the overall goal of strengthening and improving correctional oversight across the united states through policy development and education.
- $600,000
Texas Tribune · Austin, TX · 2024
To provide general operating support for journalism.
- $600,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To support the improvement of audit and enforcement procedures at the internal revenue service.
- $600,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To provide non-partisan technical assistance to states to develop and implement policies that address high health care prices and to disseminate related research, policy tools, and lessons learned.
- $600,000
Project On Predatory Student Lending · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2022
To help establish legal protections for college students against predatory lending practices.
- $600,000
Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Baton Rouge, LA · 2020
To support the louisiana covid-19 response fund.
- $600,000
Bioethics International · Westport, CT · 2020
To help expand the good pharma scorecard.
- $600,000
Hastings College of the Law University of California · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To support grantee's center for innovation in its efforts to maximize the access and affordability of life saving drugs while maintaining incentives for innovation.
- $600,000
Pacific Business Group On Health · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To launch an employer-led initiative to highlight the impact of high health care prices on businesses.
- $600,000
Technical Assistance Collaborative · Boston, MA · 2020
To support the ohio and west virginia medicaid agencies implementing changes that will expand access to quality opioid use disorder treatment.
- $598,000
Calmatters · Sacramento, CA · 2024
To support the california accountability project's digital democracy program.
- $595,572
National Center for Law and Economic Justice · New York, NY · 2023
To conduct impact litigation and educational advocacy to end punitive and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices in new york and oklahoma.
- $591,424
Minnesota Department of Human Services · Saint Paul, MN · 2020
To fund the implementation and scale up of a substance use prevention program for middle school students.
- $589,071
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
To providing funding for a randomized controlled trial of the expanded implementation of the enhanced assess, acknowledge, and act rape resistance program on five university campuses.
- $584,789
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2023
To support streamlined permitting and environmental reviews at the federal level by enhancing state capacity.
- $584,035
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Branchville, NJ · 2022
To provide research and analysis to the new jersey criminal sentencing and disposition commission.
- $582,946
The Sentencing Project · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the second look network and advance back-end release policy reforms.
- $580,172
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
To launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degre… read allTo launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degree. less
- $580,000
Public Justice Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To bring strategic litigation that reinvigorates the prohibition on jailing people for nonpayment of fines and fees.
- $579,482
Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2020
To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a nurse-led hospital discharge and home follow-up program for chronically ill older adults.
- $576,905
West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education · Charleston, WV · 2020
To support the expansion of the city university of new york's accelerated study in associate programs program in two west virginia community colleges.
- $576,407
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2024
To support a randomized controlled trial of public safety outcomes through reduces supervision conditions.
- $574,113
National Policing Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
To conduct a multi-site replication of a prior experimental study, in which a promising, low-cost supervisory intervention led to reduced arrests and use of force.
- $571,842
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To conduct an evaluation on how the growth in medicare advantage enrollment affects how private insurers are paid under medicare advantage.
- $571,055
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2022
To support a randomized controlled trial of public safety outcomes through reduced supervision conditions.
- $571,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Branchville, NJ · 2022
To fund a second evaluation of new jersey's opioid overdose recovery program, which links opioid overdose survivors to medication-assisted treatment.
- $570,837
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To support center for advancing the study of health care research.
- $570,667
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support work in bringing greater visibility to the business practices, financial incentives, and other market forces that drive up healthcare prices.
- $570,667
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support work in bringing greater visibility to the business practices, financial incentives, and other market forces that drive up health care prices.
- $570,000
Code for America Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support a state to design, build, and evaluate a process to reduce the costs and administrative burden associated with renewing medicaid eligibility for dual-eligible beneficiaries and creating publicly available mat… read allTo support a state to design, build, and evaluate a process to reduce the costs and administrative burden associated with renewing medicaid eligibility for dual-eligible beneficiaries and creating publicly available materials. less
- $569,718
Community Resources for Justice · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the implementation of policy changes to safely reduce revocations and improve community supervision outcomes.
- $562,788
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023
To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.
- $562,500
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the contraceptive access initiative and its efforts to communicate about misinformation and disinformation regarding contraception.
- $561,764
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To conduct a study evaluating whether data from unified enrollment systems can be used to rigorously measure school quality.
- $561,162
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
To provide short-term bridge funding to the texas all payer claims database.
- $559,168
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To estimate the causal effect of prosecutorial discretion and policy changes.
- $556,739
Pro Publica · New York, NY · 2024
To support independent investigative journalism.
- $556,412
Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2023
To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.
- $555,284
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
To provide support for the national collaborative on gun violence research.
- $555,000
United States of Care Campaign · Washington, DC · 2024
To engage stakeholders on hospital pricing practices.
- $554,540
Anne Tumlinson Innovations Llc · Washington, DC · 2024
To objectively track biopharmaceutical companies' investment and r&d decisions and evaluating how these choices impact innovation, particularly in response to federal policy changes.
- $552,339
National Conference of State Legislatures · Denver, CO · 2024
To enhance state legislative capacity to use evidence in state policymaking efforts and direct public funding to evidence-based programs.
- $551,403
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To explore the pros and cons of computational simulation in clinical trials, using ai/ml methods to produce simulated controls at either the aggregate or the individual level, to measure the safety and effectiveness of … read allTo explore the pros and cons of computational simulation in clinical trials, using ai/ml methods to produce simulated controls at either the aggregate or the individual level, to measure the safety and effectiveness of a drug and develop policy recommendations. less
- $550,000
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc · New York, NY · 2023
To support teen options to prevent pregnancy efforts.
- $550,000
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023
To plan for a rigorous evaluation of replications of the university of california san francisco (ucsf) trauma recovery center (trc) model that have been implemented in evergreen park, il; des moines, ia; atlanta, ga; lo… read allTo plan for a rigorous evaluation of replications of the university of california san francisco (ucsf) trauma recovery center (trc) model that have been implemented in evergreen park, il; des moines, ia; atlanta, ga; long beach, ca; and van nuys, ca. less
- $550,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To research medical pricing practices.
- $550,000
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2023
To conduct research exploring the impacts of monetary sanctions and identifying alternative legal system reforms.
- $550,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To identify and highlight low-value medical practices and work with policymakers/payers to reduce the use of such practices.
- $550,000
Uc Hastings Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To support grantee's center for innovation in its efforts to maximize the access and affordability of life saving drugs while maintaining incentives for innovation.
- $550,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020
To support the state and local finance initiative.
- $549,424
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2020
To provide operating support for a web-based registry of evidence-based youth development programs.
- $545,977
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support strategic litigation and policy engagement to combat predatory practices in higher education and defend student borrowers.
- $545,574
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2023
To support the administration of the blueprints for healthy youth development initiative, an online registry of evidence-based programs in youth development.
- $543,500
Minnesota Department of Human Services · St Paul, MN · 2022
To fund the implementation and scale up of a substance use prevention program for middle school students.
- $542,670
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To analyze the health impacts of an institutional sales ban on sugar-sweetened beverages.
- $541,401
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
To support the evaluation of state medicaid policies on contraceptive access.
- $540,000
Families USA Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To educate policymakers on the importance of payment reform from a consumer perspective.
- $540,000
Veterans Education Success · Washington, DC · 2020
To support research and the use of administrative data to help improve education and employment among veterans.
- $538,262
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020
To conduct research with the philadelphia district attorney's office to evaluate which prosecutor-driven policies can improve fairness and efficiency in the criminal justice system.
- $536,487
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
To fund a randomized controlled trial of big brothers big sisters of america's community-based mentoring program.
- $536,028
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.
- $535,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
To evaluate the implementation and effects of a 2017 texas law (hb 351) that increased the opportunity for judicial consideration of a persons ability to pay fines and fees and provided alternatives to levying them.
- $534,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To produce timely analyses and policy briefs to inform efforts to improve care and reduce inefficiencies for the dual-eligible population.
- $533,685
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2020
To fund a randomized controlled trial of big brothers big sisters of america's community-based mentoring program.
- $528,386
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.
- $527,905
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023
To support legal technical assistance on cost containment policies.
- $524,865
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support a survey and analysis on contraceptive coverage and access.
- $520,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To develop a structured battery of statistical methods for measuring racial bias at various stages of the traffic enforcement process.
- $520,000
Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge · Lewes, DE · 2023
To support the purpose of developing and advancing a comprehensive set of policy options for intellectual property reform in the drug space through research, public education, and policy development.
- $520,000
Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge · Lewes, DE · 2022
To support the purpose of developing and advancing a comprehensive set of policy options for intellectual property reform in the drug space through research, public education, and policy development.

