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Who does The Brinson Foundation fund?

The Brinson Foundation has awarded $131 million across 626 grants to 193 grantees between 2020 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in education. Its typical grant is $43,000, with most between $30,000 and $62,800. Repeat grantees receive a median $43,000 versus $35,000 for first-time grantees.

Total awarded
$130.8M
Typical grant
$43K
Grantees
193
Grants
626
Years
2020–2024

Organizations this funder supports

Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.

100 of 193 grantees
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Grantee Total receivedGrantsYearsLatestState Support
California Institute of Technology $101.2M172020–20242024CA
Rush University Medical Center $1.0M202020–20242024IL
University of Chicago $922K152020–20222022IL
S St John's Health Foundation $880K62020–20242024— —
A Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago $747K122020–20242024— —
C Carnegie Institution for Science $622K82020–20232023— —
N Northwestern Memorial Foundation $536K82020–20232023— —
U University of Chicago Medicine $500K52020–20242024— —
C Carnegie Institution for Science Carnegie Observatories Instrumentation Pro $468K52023–20242024— —
R Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Shirley Ryan Abilitylab $418K52020–20242024— —
Adler Planetarium $418K52020–20242024IL
Field Museum of Natural History $409K52020–20242024IL
Cornell University $403K82020–20242024NY
La Rabida Children's Hospital $403K52020–20242024IL
T The Art Institute of Chicago $402K52020–20242024IL
E Eisenhower Health $400K42023–20242024— —
Window to the World Communications INC $351K52020–20242024IL
M Museum of Science and Industry $325K42020–20232023— —
I Individual recipient $321K42020–20232023— —
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies $310K52020–20242024CA
Lsst INC $304K42020–20242024AZ
L Lincoln Park Zoological Society $304K52020–20242024— —
Lyric Opera of Chicago $301K52020–20242024IL
I Individual recipient $292K52020–20242024— —
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund $270K52020–20242024IL
C Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Architecture Center $267K62020–20242024— —
The Posse Foundation INC $265K52020–20242024NY
U University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Edward H Lev $262K220242024— —
Special Olympics Illinois $259K52020–20242024IL
H Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans INC $250K52020–20242024— —
C Chicago Community Foundation Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities $250K220242024— —
C Chicago Historical Society Chicago History Museum $248K42020–20242024— —
M Metrosquash $246K62020–20242024— —
U University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign - National Center for Supercomputi $243K22021–20222022— —
High Jump $243K52020–20242024IL
The Morton Arboretum $242K52020–20242024IL
P Princeton University Department of $240K220232023— —
P Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences $240K220242024— —
Massachusetts Institute of Technology $240K220242024MA
Lake Forest Academy $239K52020–20242024IL
E Erie Family Health Foundation INC $234K52020–20242024IL
T Teton County Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling $232K52020–20242024— —
U University of California Los Angeles Galactic Center Group $232K32023–20242024— —
A Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy - National Solar Obse $230K22021–20222022— —
U University of California Los Angeles $230K22021–20222022— —
President and Fellows of Harvard College $230K22022–20242024MA
Wesleyan University $230K22022–20242024CT
Communities in Schools of Chicago $228K52020–20242024IL
Chicago Public Education Fund $225K42020–20242024IL
Northwestern University $223K42022–20242024IL
A Ayn Rand Institute $223K62020–20242024— —
Healthy Schools Campaign $222K52020–20242024IL
Chicago Parks Foundation $213K42021–20242024IL
C Chicago Horticultural Society Chicago Botanic Garden $206K42020–20242024— —
The Joffrey Ballet $203K52020–20242024IL
Chicago Public Library Foundation $203K52020–20242024IL
U University of Chicago Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy $203K22023–20242024— —
S Stony Brook Foundation INC Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science $202K52020–20242024— —
U University of Utah $195K32020–20222022UT
The Bottom Line INC $193K52020–20242024MA
Institute for Humane Studies $193K52020–20242024VA
Teton Science Schools INC $186K52020–20242024WY
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation INC $186K62020–20242024IL
One Million Degrees $185K52020–20242024IL
Math Circles of Chicago $184K52020–20242024IL
Jackson Hole Land Trust $184K52020–20242024WY
C Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association $183K32020–20242024— —
Partnership for College Completion $181K52020–20242024IL
Cato Institute $176K52020–20242024DC
Project Syncere $176K62020–20242024IL
America Needs You $174K52020–20242024NY
I Individual recipient $172K52020–20242024— —
A Accion $168K52020–20242024— —
I Individual recipient $166K52020–20242024— —
Start Early $165K52020–20242024IL
Merit School of Music $164K52020–20242024IL
I Individual recipient $164K52020–20242024— —
S Science Philanthropy Alliance Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors $160K22023–20242024— —
Carole Robertson Center for Learning $155K52020–20242024IL
National Louis University $153K32022–20242024IL
After School Matters INC $152K52020–20242024IL
Onegoal $150K42020–20232023IL
Eisenhower Medical Center $150K32020–20222022CA
Forefront $150K52020–20242024IL
Mercatus Center INC $148K52020–20242024VA
T Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Columbia University $147K22023–20242024— —
Loyola University Medical Center $145K52020–20242024IL
A Better Chicago $142K52020–20242024IL
T The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Columbia Univer $140K22021–20222022— —
Room to Read $140K52020–20242024CA
University of Arizona Foundation $140K42020–20232023AZ
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation $135K42020–20232023IL
1 1871 Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center $133K42021–20242024— —
Illinois Network of Charter Schools $130K42020–20232023IL
T Teach for America - Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana $124K32021–20232023— —
U University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics $120K120242024— —
U University of Chicago Department of $120K120232023— —
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States $120K52020–20242024WY
U University of California- Davis $118K120222022CA
U University of California Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy $118K220232023— —

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