The Mathenaeum Foundation

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

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

• Seattle Universal Math Museum8 grants · $357,975
• Society for Science and the Public4 grants · $216,000
• Stony Brook Foundation2 grants · $140,000
• Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro1 grant · $98,731
• Mathsworlduk2 grants · $93,707
• Math Cultural Center of Chicago1 grant · $91,597
• Prison Mathematics Project2 grants · $85,000
• Center for Disaster Philanthropy1 grant · $75,000
• Every Org1 grant · $72,000
• St Lawrence University1 grant · $50,000

Giving over time

Grant history

All 41 reported grants, largest first.

• $222,500

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Mercer Island, WA · 2023

  Director's Compensation Fund, Studio Infinity programs, and general support

• $116,000

  Society for Science and the Public · Washington, DC · 2022

  Expand and enhance mathematics coverage in Science News for an eighteen-month period

• $100,000

  Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

  This grant is designated for Math for America, restricted to Math for America's Cohort Project program

• $98,731

  Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro · New Hyde Park, NY · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $91,597

  Math Cultural Center of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  General & Unrestricted

• $75,000

  Center for Disaster Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2023

  Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Recovery Fund

• $72,000

  Every Org · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  The Prison Math Project

• $61,839

  Mathsworlduk · 2022

  Expenditure Responsibility Grant

• $60,000

  Society for Science and the Public · Washington, DC · 2024

  to support mathematics coverage in Science News, broadly along the lines of the Society for Science proposal to the Mathenaeum Foundation

• $60,000

  Prison Mathematics Project · Phoenix, AZ · 2023

  public and participant outreach and communication and general operating support

• $50,000

  St Lawrence University · Canton, NY · 2024

  to support the Illustration Apprenticeships program of Illustration as a Mathematical Research Technique semester, with St. Lawrence University as Financial Administrator

• $50,000

  Impactstory · Sanford, NC · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $50,000

  University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  USC Math for America Los Angeles

• $43,000

  President & Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Math Dept. Chair's Fund

• $40,000

  Stony Brook Foundation · Stony Brook, NY · 2024

  This grant is designated for Math for America for the general support of Math for America

• $31,868

  Mathsworlduk · 2023

  Expenditure Responsibility Grant

• $30,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Seattle, WA · 2024

  to support the development and operation of in-house programs to serve the local community

• $25,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Executive Director Employment Fund

• $25,000

  Society for Science and the Public · Washington, DC · 2024

  to support mathematics coverage in Science News

• $25,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Mercer Island, WA · 2023

  Executive Director Employment Fund

• $25,000

  Prison Mathematics Project · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

  Public and Participant Outreach and Communication

• $25,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Mercer Island, WA · 2022

  The recruitment and hiring of SUMM's new Executive Director

• $20,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Mercer Island, WA · 2022

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Girls Angle · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Mathematical Association of America Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2024

  anonymous support of Project NExT fellows

• $15,000

  Girls Angle · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Mathematical Association of America Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2023

  anonymous sponsorship of Project NExT Fellows

• $15,000

  National Association of Mathematicians Incorporate · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Talkstem · Dallas, TX · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Venice Heritage Foundation · Venice, CA · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $15,000

  Society for Science and the Public · Washington, DC · 2022

  General & Unrestricted

• $14,641

  Ross Mathematics Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2022

  Ross Endowment Fund

• $11,010

  Girls Angle · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  General & Unrestricted

• $10,000

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General & Unrestricted

• $10,000

  National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientist · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  Spectra, the association of LGBTQ+ mathematicians

• $10,000

  Young Peoples Project · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General & Unrestricted

• $8,000

  Mathematical Association of America Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2022

  Project NExT

• $6,561

  Art of Problem Solving Initiative · New York, NY · 2022

  General & Unrestricted

• $6,250

  Fannie and John Hertz Foundation · Pleasanton, CA · 2022

  General & Unrestricted

• $2,500

  Old Westbury College Foundation · Old Westbury, NY · 2023

  Institute for Creative Problem Solving

• $475

  Seattle Universal Math Museum · Mercer Island, WA · 2023

  General & Unrestricted