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12 funders with a record of paying for “atlas”
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United Way of New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
215 matching grants · $87.7M · through 2024Largest: $5.5M to JUSTICE INNOVATION INC — atlas/ons - led by uwnyc and ons, atlas will work in collaboration with uwnycs extensive list of community based organizations (cbo) to provide a suite of services including mentor…
Largest: $50,000 to HUMAN CELL ATLAS INCORPORATED — 2023 human cell atlas general meeting
Donors TrustAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2024Largest: $832,150 to Atlas Economic Research Foundation — for general operations
Largest: $100,000 to Arizona Autism United — support strategic organizational enhancements (atlas nonprofit strength and endurance)
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
12 matching grants · $10.7M · through 2024Largest: $4.3M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — the ancient dna atlas of humanity
Largest: $752,000 to FRACTURED ATLAS INC — to support archival maintenance, research, operations and website development for a sponsored project
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
12 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to FRACTURED ATLAS INC — to educate the public about various drivers of delay on climate action through the work of drilled, produced by seed pod llc, a fiscally sponsored project of fractured atlas
Sage BionetworksSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $204,479 to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — perform all work related to the proposed brca pre-cancer atlas instance of the cbioportal for cancer genomics. build, maintain and run automated pipelines that transfer data from s…
Largest: $1.7M to HUMAN CELL ATLAS INC — to support an ecosystem of infrastructure and analysis that accelerates delivery and access for the first draft human cell atlas
Largest: $300,000 to FRACTURED ATLAS — to develop a network of support
Largest: $2.3M to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — hms project, chen atlas informatics, santagata project, sorger project, brugge-atlas project
Largest: $150,000 to FRACTURED ATLAS INC — to support guillermo brown's project, "the instrument"
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →