Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
T. Boone Pickens Foundation
$120 million to Oklahoma State University. The grant includes $63.7 million to expand student scholarships, and $25 million to support construction of the Human Performance Innovation Complex, which will house the Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute and the Cowboy Football Center.
It will also enhance the golf course and help build a museum inside the west end zone of Boone Pickens Stadium that will display the personal and business archives of T. Boone Pickens, an oil tycoon who died in 2019. During his lifetime, he gave his alma mater more than $500 million.
The foundation additionally awarded $12.5 million to the University of Calgary to back research in brain and mental health at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
Cummings Foundation
$30 million to 150 nonprofit groups in the Boston metropolitan area that work in the areas of education, health care, human services, and social justice.
This year, 125 of grantees were awarded three-year awards of up to $225,000 each. The remaining 25 grant winners were awarded up to $1 million each over 10 years.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$26 million to the Obama Foundation, of which $25 million will help build the Obama Presidential Center, which will house space for conferences, civic-participation programs, and the Democracy in Action Lab.
The remaining $1 million will strengthen the Obama Foundation’s Leaders Program to develop and offer skills training to community leaders ages 24 through 45 from around the world.
W.P. Carey Foundation
$25 million to NewYork-Presbyterian to enhance its residency program for physicians with a new curriculum that includes foundational training in digital medicine, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other advanced technologies in medicine.
Trinity Church Wall Street
$22 million to 111 nonprofit organizations, primarily in New York City, that address housing affordability, access to mental-health support, community safety, and support for immigrants who are seeking asylum.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$20 million for a new partnership with the Agence Française de Développement to back projects that support gender equality and human development across Africa and South Asia.
Grantham Environmental Trust
$12 million to the Savanna Institute to establish a program for farmers to improve key nut, fruit, and timber crops and make them more resilient and productive.
The Matthew Zell Family Foundation gave an additional $700,000 toward the program.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
$10 million over four years to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to train staff members across its 5,000 clubs to better support the emotional and psychological well-being of children who have experienced trauma.
Fritz B. Burns Foundation
$10 million to the University of Southern California to build a new stadium for its women’s soccer and lacrosse teams. It is expected to open in 2025.
Pulte Family Charitable Foundation
$9 million to the University of Notre Dame to create the Pulte Platform for Policy Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation
$5 million to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies to finalize its efforts for FDA approval of the psychedelic drug MDMA as therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read more about the grantee’s efforts to secure donations for psychedelic research in the Chronicle.
CSX Corporation
$5 million to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum toward its capital campaign to back the B&O Railroad’s bicentennial anniversary celebration in 2027.
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
$4 million to the Sundance Institute to endow its program that provides financial support for Indigenous artists from California-based tribes.
Hudson-Webber Foundation
$3.2 million to six organizations that work in community and economic development to improve the lives of residents of the Detroit metropolitan area.
Carestar Foundation
$2 million to 10 nonprofit organizations that are working to advance racial equity to emergency and mental-health care in California.
Health Foundation of South Florida
$2 million to two collaborations of health organizations that are addressing inequities in Black maternal health care in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, as well as a grant to the Circle of Brotherhood to back community-safety programs in Liberty City and Overtown.
Shapiro Foundation
$2 million to Airbnb.org to create its Sponsorship Initiative, which will provide grants to cover housing for refugees and asylum seekers who are resettling in the United States.
SECU Foundation
$1.5 million to the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation to expand its Tammy Lynn Center, which offers comprehensive programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Eisner Foundation
$1.3 million to nine organizations in Southern California for general operating support and to back programs that serve children and older adults.
Women of Chapman
$1 million to Chapman University to endow the Student Hardship Assistance Fund, which offers safety-net aid to students for expenses related to housing, food, transportation, technology, medical bills, or supporting a family member in crisis.
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