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
- $300,000
Louisiana Parole Project · Baton Rouge, LA · 2024
To continue to review parole opportunities in louisiana for people serving long sentences through policy development and education, and direct legal representation.
- $300,000
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Llp · Washington, DC · 2024
To drive grad plus policy reform by developing and modeling ideologically-diverse policy proposals.
- $300,000
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
To provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overal… read allTo provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overall goal of rigorously testing new approaches to drive transformative solutions and policy change to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police. less
- $300,000
Rights Behind Bars · Washington, DC · 2024
To support efforts to transform prison conditions through disability rights litigation.
- $300,000
The Colorado Sun · Denver, CO · 2024
To provide general operating support for journalism.
- $300,000
The Sentencing Project · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the second look network and advance back-end release policy reforms.
- $300,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To map the current political, economic, and legislative landscape of pay-to-stay incarceration cost recoupment practices across the united states.
- $300,000
Justice in Aging · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the grantees provision of education and technical assistance to advance medicare-medicaid integrated models at the federal and state levels.
- $300,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
For continued support of the state and local government innovation initiative.
- $300,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To devise and implement strategies to reduce revocation of probation and parole.
- $300,000
Rights Behind Bars · Washington, DC · 2023
To support efforts to transform prison conditions through disability rights litigation.
- $300,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2023
To support pretrial reform work at the deason criminal justice reform center.
- $300,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
- $300,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To conduct research to improve the quality of clinical outcomes, serious adverse event information, and transparent listing of conflicts of interest throughout the clinical decision- making process.
- $300,000
Tufts Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2023
To research and develop federal policy options and strategies to improve medicare's coverage with evidence development program, for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, and the general public.
- $300,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To map the current political, economic, and legislative landscape of pay-to-stay incarceration cost recoupment practices across the united states.
- $300,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To conduct a landscape analysis of federal place-based development programs.
- $300,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support reporting focused on reproductive health.
- $300,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To conduct research to assess how medicare advantage plans create value and effectively manage utilization with the ultimate goal of helping to make the delivery of health care more effective and less expensive.
- $300,000
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
To evaluate the least burdensome release conditions and supervision practices that improve court appearance.
- $300,000
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Llp · Washington, DC · 2022
To assemble key education leaders to develop strategies for reforming grad plus loans, and publishing the group's findings in a policy brief.
- $300,000
The National Press Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support a convening of broadcast journalists, hosted by the national press foundation and rtdna, to discuss challenges and opportunities for criminal justice coverage.
- $300,000
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the michigan contraceptive access research and evaluation program.
- $300,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
To support data-driven prison reform in the pennsylvania department of corrections.
- $300,000
Tufts Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2022
To conduct an evaluation to measure the level of racial inequality in the use of low-value care and to quantify the harms associated with low-value care across the medicare population and by racial-ethnic groups.
- $300,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
To conduct research projects examining the effects of the medicare-medicaid financial alignment initiative demonstrations in massachusetts and washington.
- $300,000
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences · Washington, DC · 2020
To advance evidence-based policymaking and promote the use of longitudinal data in education research.
- $300,000
Californians Dedicated To Education Foundation · Dublin, CA · 2020
To support the california department of education in its efforts to expand and implement the career academies program in low-income high schools across the state.
- $300,000
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2020
To create a comprehensive study of current practices to address intimate partner violence in the context of pretrial reform.
- $300,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2020
To support the greater new orleans disaster response and restoration fund for response to the covid-19 pandemic.
- $300,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To produce nonpartisan, educational analyses, policy briefs, and explainers examining the effect of proposed health policy changes on prices, costs and affordability.
- $300,000
Lown Institute · Brookline, MA · 2020
To research and improve measurement of low-value medical services.
- $300,000
National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy · Washington, DC · 2020
To illustrate the evolving state landscape with respect to contraceptive access and policy solutions.
- $300,000
St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated · St Louis, MO · 2020
To support the st. Louis covid-19 regional response fund.
- $300,000
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2020
To identify low-value medical devices and reduce their use.
- $300,000
The United Way of Central Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2020
To support the central maryland covid-19 community fund.
- $300,000
Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020
To assess legal and policy barriers to harm reduction programs.
- $300,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020
To increase transparency in the nationwide distribution of medicaid reimbursement rates for commonly billed opioid use disorder treatment services and help establish reimbursement rate benchmarks for policymakers.
- $300,000
Washington Health Alliance · Seattle, WA · 2020
To assess low-value care utilization among eight employers in washington state and help them implement strategies to reduce the use of such care.
- $300,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2020
To produce a series of policy briefs that identify issues that raise healthcare spending.
- $299,984
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To identify and understand (i) the drivers of health care costs in the small group market, (ii) the budgetary implications of same, and (iii) potential solutions to these issues.
- $299,833
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To evaluate the existing home and community based services evidence base and develop a research agenda aimed at decreasing nursing home utilization and spending.
- $299,700
Yes in My Back Yard · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support grantee's efforts to conduct housing enforcement in three states through legal partnerships, legal analysis, and housing project partnerships.
- $298,183
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2020
To examine how policy and practice can identify risk of recidivism.
- $297,575
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
To analyze how well the medicare advantage star rating system measures and incentivizes quality.
- $297,512
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development of effective bipartisan policy to integrate medicare and medicaid for the dual-eligible population.
- $297,500
Aetion · New York, NY · 2024
To explore how broadening the patient population of randomized controlled trials can impact oncology treatments' effectiveness and safety.
- $297,065
Center for Health Care Strategies · Hamilton, NJ · 2023
To support states transitioning from an integrated demonstration program to a permanent integrated model.
- $295,275
The Regents of the University of California San Diego · Oakland, CA · 2022
To improve the medicare advantage payment system.
- $295,000
Patients for Affordable Drugs · Washington, DC · 2020
To provide operating support for the patient-centered coalition initiative.
- $295,000
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2020
To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the rochester forensic assertive community treatment model in minnesota.
- $294,298
Waxman Consulting · Washington, DC · 2022
To support providing nonpartisan information and technical support to key stakeholders and publicly disseminating educational resources.
- $293,750
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2022
To support equity-centered payment reforms.
- $293,697
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association · Boulder, CO · 2024
To identify and support states that are leading innovative efforts to incentivize and support the adoption of effective student success practices and develop state policy recommendations for other states to follow.
- $293,583
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024
To build support for equity-centered payment reforms, including by educating and engaging policymakers and health equity and consumer stakeholders.
- $293,138
Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
To explore the prosecutor policy landscape relating to intimate partner violence, as well as host two convenings to further generate evaluation opportunities.
- $293,026
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2020
To evaluate an innovative co-responder deflection program focused on addressing the opioid epidemic.
- $293,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To evaluate the collection, retention and use of dna analysis by law enforcement.
- $291,959
Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2023
To advance leveraged federal solutions to increase the impact of medicaid family planning-only coverage programs.
- $291,667
Families USA Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To review the existing literature and develop policy recommendations for the states and federal government to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in integrated models and medicaid managed care.
- $291,618
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.
- $290,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To conduct research and analysis to develop recommendations for new place-based policies that would effectively facilitate capital access for mission-driven developers in middle neighborhoods as an alternative to simply… read allTo conduct research and analysis to develop recommendations for new place-based policies that would effectively facilitate capital access for mission-driven developers in middle neighborhoods as an alternative to simply extending existing tax incentives. less
- $290,000
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022
To raise awareness and provide evidence-based policy solutions to improve medicare's fiscal sustainability.
- $289,857
Reproductive Equity Now Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the launch of a cross-sector learning collaborative and workgroup that actively engages advocates, payers, clinicians, pharmacies, and state stakeholders to address implementation failures in extended supply … read allTo support the launch of a cross-sector learning collaborative and workgroup that actively engages advocates, payers, clinicians, pharmacies, and state stakeholders to address implementation failures in extended supply and pharmacist prescribing policies across three states. less
- $289,665
Center for Health Policy Development · Portland, ME · 2024
To identify and advance innovative state policy solutions to strengthen contraceptive affordability and access.
- $289,416
Radio & Television News Directors Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To deepen and expand efforts to improve broadcast television's coverage of crime and criminal justice issues.
- $289,217
Small Business Majority Foundation · Washington, DC · 2020
To provide targeted employer and employee outreach, education and engagement in order to increase participation in the calsavers state auto-ira program.
- $288,986
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
To conduct and disseminate research that evaluates the effectiveness of state-level initiatives on contraceptive access by estimating causal effect of other similar state-run programs.
- $288,848
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support research on tax competition and business taxation.
- $288,809
Pennsylvania Prison Society · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support coordination of uniform metrics and monitoring practices in illinois and new york.
- $288,632
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2020
To evaluate the welfare effects of potential and previous pension reforms, and deepening analytic capabilities of their welfare model, with the overall goal of educating the public and policymakers about pension reform.
- $287,291
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of mississippi's kinship care navigator program, a support program for kinship caregivers of children in mississippi.
- $287,057
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
To provide technical support, capacity building resources, and training to reproductive health providers in utah.
- $286,845
Center for Health Care Strategies · Trenton, NJ · 2024
To support states in designing and launching population-based payment models for primary care in medicaid, with the overall goal of delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary care.
- $286,668
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
To conduct analyses on rural hospital ownership and the economic effects of consolidation in rural hospital markets.
- $285,650
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society · Rye Brook, NY · 2024
To address the impact of high provider prices on patients and their families.
- $285,608
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the first national study of people released from prison after previously being sentenced as juveniles to life without the possibility of parole.
- $284,910
Population Reference Bureau · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development of a scorecard that assesses the favorability of the policy environment for contraceptive access nationally and within each u.s. State.
- $284,852
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To conduct research reviewing overpayment in the medicare program.
- $284,701
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Eden Prairie, MN · 2022
To research 340b contract pharmacy penetration and assess its impact among safety-net providers.
- $284,258
University of Cincinnati Research Institute · Cincinnati, OH · 2020
To conduct a study of the current state of sobering center practices.
- $284,203
Just Detention International · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a cohort of prison wardens to participate in a leadership academy and develop/implement reforms.
- $283,546
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
To support the development of web-based tools to provide objective information about firearm violence and how state laws reduce or exacerbate this violence.
- $283,536
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2022
To support high quality research help identify and disseminate effective strategies for addressing the negative educational consequences caused by the covid-19 pandemic.
- $283,322
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To provide state and local jurisdictions with technical assistance aimed at improving government agency service delivery and procurement systems.
- $283,005
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
To conduct analyses and provide evidence-based policy recommendations that can support review, approval, and promotion of new indications for safe, effective, affordable generic drugs.
- $283,000
R Street Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To advance bipartisan, evidence-based policies related to police accountability in order to enhance public safety and protect individual rights.
- $282,444
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2023
To fund a randomized controlled trial of big brothers big sisters of america's community-based mentoring program.
- $281,828
New York University · New York, NY · 2020
To create model legislation that will provide meaningful regulation of policing.
- $281,540
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2020
To conduct interdisciplinary research on eyewitness identification.
- $281,363
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
To continue to support the national collaborative on gun violence research, a national, coordinated effort aimed at building the empirical basis for policy decisions to address gun violence.
- $281,077
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To evaluate "playing 4 change," a video game-supported, school-based therapeutic group that is designed to reduce aggression among at-risk youth, during the pivotal transition to adolescence.
- $280,501
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022
To provide tools that prevent medicare insolvency.
- $280,434
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and st… read allTo support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices. less
- $280,401
Mass Design Group · Cambridge, MA · 2020
To improve the well-being of people living and working in correctional facilities.
- $280,248
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
To research the impact of over-the-counter hormonal birth control pill and understand if and how over-the-counter access is changing contraceptive access and use, particularly among groups with well-described structural… read allTo research the impact of over-the-counter hormonal birth control pill and understand if and how over-the-counter access is changing contraceptive access and use, particularly among groups with well-described structural barriers to reproductive healthcare. less
- $280,000
Our American Future Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support educational activities related to democracy reform.
- $280,000
Project Evident · Boston, MA · 2024
To pilot an evidence pipeline accelerator to expand the pool of nonprofit programs ready for rigorous evaluation.
- $280,000
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2023
To research how the fda engages external experts through its federal advisory committees and other public engagement mechanisms.
- $280,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To assess state efforts to address health disparities.

