Grants awarded
Who does Breakthrough Prize Foundation fund?
Breakthrough Prize Foundation has awarded $190 million across 649 grants to 500 organizations between 2019 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in foundations & grantmakers. Its typical grant is $8,646, with most between $8,645 and $50,000. Repeat grantees receive a median $1,243,410 versus $8,646 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$190.4M
Typical grant
$9K
Grantees
500
Grants
649
Years
2019–2024
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Follow |
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| M Milky Way Research Foundation | $65.6M | 34 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| A Airbnborg | $21.0M | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | — |
Charities Aid Foundation America
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$15.0M | 3 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | VA | |
| S Steven Weinberg | $6.0M | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| M Martin Hairer | $6.0M | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| I International Rescue Committee (irc) | $5.6M | 4 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| N National Academy of Sciences | $5.4M | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| U UNICEF | $4.0M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| T Takuro Mochizuki | $3.0M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| G Gerard't Hooft | $3.0M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| D Dennis Gaitsgory | $3.0M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Simon Brendle | $3.0M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| A Alex Eskin | $3.0M | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| A American Red Cross | $3.0M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| D Daniel Spielman | $3.0M | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| E Eric Adelberger | $2.0M | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| B Blayne Heckel | $2.0M | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| J Jens Gundlach | $2.0M | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$1.9M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
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$1.9M | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| S Stanford University | $1.7M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| A Alexander Zamolodchikov | $1.5M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| J John Cardy | $1.5M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| J Jun Ye | $1.5M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| H Hidetoshi Katori | $1.5M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors INC
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$1.5M | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
| A All European Academies | $1.4M | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| D Daniel Freedman | $1.0M | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| S Sergio Ferrara | $1.0M | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| P Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen | $1.0M | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| G Gilles Brassard | $750K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| C Charles Bennett | $750K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| P Peter Shor | $750K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| D David Deutsch | $750K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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$600K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | MA | |
| A American Friends of the Tel Aviv University INC | $500K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| S Samay Godika | $500K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$500K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| A Australian Academy of Science | $500K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Social Impact Fund
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$250K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| J Jeffery Chen | $250K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| M Maryam Tsegaye | $250K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| A Amber Kwok | $250K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| S Sia Godika | $250K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| N Noor Haideri | $250K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$240K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | PA | |
| A Aleksandr Logunov | $200K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| S Song Sun | $200K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| T Tracy Slatyer | $200K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| B Bhargav Bhatt | $200K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Arid1b Research Foundation INC
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$150K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | MD | |
| J James Maynard | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| N Nina Holden | $100K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| J Jeongwan Haah | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| X Xinwen Zhu | $100K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| E Ecole McTavish Public High School | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| A Angkana Ruland | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| S Suchitra Sebastian | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| N National Public School Koramangala | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| L Lisa Piccirillo | $100K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| J John Pardon | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| K Katherine Vladicka | $100K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| J Jack Thorne | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| M Michael Groechenig | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| J Jacob Tsimerman | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| N Neev Academy | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Sam Raskin | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| L Le Bocage International School | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| D David Simmons-Duffin | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| E Emmy Murphy | $100K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| R Roland Bauerschmidt | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| R Ronen Eldan | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| B Blue Valley High School | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| E Ewain Gwynne | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| U Urmila Mahadev | $100K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| W Waseem Bakr | $100K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A Anna Grassellino | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| B Burlingame High School | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| A Ana Caraiani | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| T Timothy Austin | $100K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| S Shastri Doorgah | $50K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| L Los Altos Chabad | $50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| H Heather Johnson | $50K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| H Hannah Larson | $50K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| T Tien-Tien Yu | $50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| T Tomer Volansky | $50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| H Henry Maxfield | $50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| S Sarah Peluse | $50K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| L Laura Monk | $50K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| A Ahmed Almheiri | $50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| J Javier Tiffenberg | $50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| M Mayuko Yamashita | $50K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| H Hong Wang | $50K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| P Pedro Vieira | $50K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
| D Dianne Dunn | $50K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| A Alexandru Lupsasca | $50K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| Y Yilin Wang | $50K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| J Julie Li-Eyal | $50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| R Rajula Srivastava | $50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Simon Caron-Huot | $50K | 1 | 2019 | 2019 | — | — |
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