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Foundations / Science and research

Foundations that fund science and research in District of Columbia

1,132 private foundations gave $466 million for science and research to organizations in District of Columbia in their latest year. The largest was Gates Foundation, with $102 million in 76 grants.

Foundations ranked by science and research grants to recipients in District of Columbia, latest year
FoundationGrantsAmountAccepts applications
Gates Foundation (Washington)76$102 millionYes
Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation (Virginia)1$35.3 millionYes
Walton Family Foundation Inc (Arkansas)17$31.8 millionNo
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation (California)40$23.4 millionNo
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (New Jersey)52$16.8 millionYes
The Ford Foundation (New York)39$15.4 millionYes
Peter G Peterson Foundation (New York)20$12.8 millionYes
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation8$9.0 millionYes
Grantham Foundation for the Protection (Massachusetts)10$8.2 millionNo
Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Texas)48$7.6 millionNo
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc (New York)2$7.3 millionNo
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc (Maryland)7$7.2 millionNo
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (California)32$6.8 millionYes
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation (California)23$6.7 millionYes
LR Foundation (Florida)1$6.2 millionNo
Breakthrough Prize Foundation7$6.1 millionYes
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation (New York)8$5.3 millionYes
Carnegie Corporation of New York (New York)19$4.5 millionYes
John S and James L Knight Foundation (Florida)9$4.3 millionYes
Sequoia Climate Foundation (California)6$4.3 millionNo
Conrad N Hilton Foundation (California)14$4.3 millionYes
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation (California)3$4.1 millionNo
Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation (Washington)2$4.0 millionNo
Alfred P Sloan Foundation (New York)17$3.6 millionYes
The Rockefeller Foundation (New York)12$3.3 millionNo

Amounts count grants whose purpose or recipient matches science and research, paid to recipients in District of Columbia. A foundation based in another state appears when it gives here.

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