Funding search · EIN 460538779 · Belmont, MA

Robert and Virginia Shiller Foundation

Name: Robert and Virginia Shiller 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.

82
grants reported: $2.3M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
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

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.

Weta2 grants · $700,000
Pbs Foundation1 grant · $425,000
World Vision Child Sponsorship1 grant · $200,000
Propublica3 grants · $125,000
Yale New Haven Health1 grant · $105,000
Yale-New Haven Hospital1 grant · $100,000
Good Food Institute2 grants · $60,000
Center for Reproductive Rights1 grant · $35,000
Children'S Cancer Therapy Development Institute2 grants · $35,000
Psychotherapy Action Network1 grant · $35,000

Giving over time

$498,800

2022

$485,000

2023

$602,500

2024

$740,500

2025

Grant history

All 82 reported grants, largest first.

$425,000
Pbs Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$350,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$350,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$200,000
World Vision Child Sponsorship · Federal Way, WA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$105,000
Yale New Haven Health · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$100,000
Yale-New Haven Hospital · New Haven, CT · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$50,000
Propublica · New York, NY · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$50,000
Propublica · New York, NY · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$35,000
Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$35,000
Planned Parenthood Federation America · Washington, DC · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$35,000
Psychotherapy Action Network · Chicago, IL · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
Children'S Cancer Therapy Development Institute · West Beavertown, OR · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
Good Food Institute · Washington, DC · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
Good Food Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$30,000
United Way of Greater New Haven · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
American Journalism Project · Washington, DC · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
American Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Center for Public Integrity · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Family Empowerment Media · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Propublica · New York, NY · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Training for Good · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$25,000
Mercy Corps · Boone, IA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$20,000
Global Impact · Washington, DC · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$20,000
League of Women Voters · Washington, DC · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$10,000
Nhpbs · Durham, NH · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$10,000
Ct Public Broadcasting · Hartford, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$10,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Community Foundation of Middlesex County · Middletown, CT · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Hole in the Wall Gang · New Haven, CT · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Sentient Media · San Francisco, CA · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Community Foundation of Middlesex County · Middletown, CT · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Children'S Cancer Therapy Development Institute · West Beavertown, OR · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Fistula Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Humane League · Rockville, MD · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Kids Kicking Cancer · Southfield, MI · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Regeneration Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$5,000
Wshu Radio Station · Fairfiled, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$4,000
Finca · Washington, DC · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$4,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Boston Children'S Chorus · Boston, MA · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Camp Sunshine · Casco, ME · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Children'S Defense Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Dream Day On Cape Cod · Brewster, MA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Give Kids the World Village · Kissimmee, FL · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Hole in the Wall Gang · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Make a Wish America · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$3,000
Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Southport School · Southport, CT · 2025
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Hamden Hall Country Day School · Hamden, CT · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Hole in the Wall Gang · New Haven, CT · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Southport School · Southport, CT · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,500
Hamden Hall Country Day School · Hamden, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$2,000
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$1,500
Give Kids the World Village · Kissimmee, FL · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$1,000
Camp Sunshine · Casco, ME · 2024
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
Columbus House · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
Consumer Reports · Yonkers, NY · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
Edgerton Park Conservancy · Hamden, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
Learning Ally · Princeton, NJ · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
Lovelane · Lincoln, MA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$500
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$400
American Cancer Society · Kennesaw, GA · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$400
American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$300
Macular Degeneration Research · Clarksburg, MD · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$300
New Haven Free Public Library · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$200
Ct Food Bank · Wallingford, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$200
Madd · Irving, TX · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$200
Special Olympics · Washington, DC · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$100
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$100
New Haven Reads · New Haven, CT · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.
$100
The Phi Beta Kappa Society · Washington, DC · 2022
To assist the recipient in carrying out its charitable purpose.

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.