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12 funders with a record of paying for “automation”
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Clean Slate InitiativeOrlando, FLCharity · may take applications
60 matching grants · $9.6M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to CODE FOR AMERICA — the clean slate initiative provides grants to organizations in support of its work toward advancing automated record clearance legislation that removes barriers to employment, hous…
Maine Technology InstitutePortland, MECharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Farmhand Automation Inc — autonomous electric rover for automated carbon free farming
Largest: $1.4M to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER — prepare 4 aid: primary care pragmatic, real world experience for automated insulin delivery
Largest: $700,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — to support the development of a theoretically-grounded and practical framework for continuous safety monitoring of clinical machine learning devices by leveraging automated real-ti…
Largest: $394,000 to CITY OF DETROIT A MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL CORPORATION — to engage residents around three mobility pilots, including an automated shuttle route, led by the detroit office of mobility innovation.
Largest: $976,545 to NATIONAL HLT LAW PROG — 79662 protecting individuals against the adverse effects of automated decision-making systems and enforcing due process in determining medicaid coverage
Largest: $900,000 to UPWARDLY GLOBAL — automating resume review and job referrals for immigrants and refugees
Largest: $1.0M to NEW VENTURE FUND — to support the clean slate initiative to automate record clearance for certain individuals with criminal records and expand eligibility criteria.
Largest: $500,000 to QUILLORG — to design quill's ai literacy curriculum and train instructional models to provide automated feedback
Invest Nebraska CorporationLincoln, NECharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $69,133 · through 2023Largest: $15,757 to METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING AGENCY — robotics and automation research
Largest: $66,000 to University of British Columbia — closed-loop hypothesis generation for automated chemical synthesis
Sage BionetworksSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $467,014 · through 2024Largest: $36,580 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — amp ad knowledge portal: build interoperability between two major alzheimer's research platforms by creating bidirectional metadata flows, enabling researchers to discover and acce…
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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 →