Large Grants in 2010: A Sampling
March 6, 2011 | Read Time: 2 minutes
| Grant recipient | Amount | ||
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | World Health Organization Polio Eradication Initiative (New York) | $80,000,000 | |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) | 50,000,000 | |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation | ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) | 46,757,800 | |
| Robert W. Woodruff Foundation | Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) | 30,500,015 | |
| Broad Foundations | Broad Institute (Cambridge, Mass.) | 20,000,000 | |
| Ford Foundation | International Fellowships Fund (New York) | 15,000,000 | |
| Novo Foundation | Nike Foundation (Beaverton, Ore.) | 15,000,000 | |
| McKnight Foundation | ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) | 13,001,097 | |
| Amon G. Carter Foundation | Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth) | 10,450,125 | |
| Howard G. Buffett Foundation | Catholic Relief Services (Baltimore) | 10,034,250 | |
| Annenberg Foundation | Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) | 10,000,000 | |
| Duke Endowment | Duke University (Durham, N.C.) | 10,000,000 | |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation | California State Polytechnic University at Pomona | 10,000,000 | |
| Rockefeller Foundation | Brookings Institution (Washington) | 10,000,000 | |
| Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation | Kauffman Scholars (Kansas City, Mo.) | 7,700,000 | |
| Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (New York) | 7,055,000 | |
| Bush Foundation | Twin Cities Teacher Collaborative | 7,000,000 | |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Foundation for the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation (Flint, Mich.) | 7,000,000 | |
| Blandin Foundation | Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.) | 6,900,000 | |
| Irene Diamond Fund | Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the City of New York | 6,886,953 | |
| T.L.L. Temple Foundation | Memorial Medical Center of East Texas (Lufkin) | 6,600,000 | |
| Heinz Endowments | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) | 6,500,000 | |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York | Public Interest Projects (New York) | 6,000,000 | |
| James Irvine Foundation | California Forward (Sacramento) | 6,000,000 | |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (Washington) | 5,773,311 | |
| John S. and James L. Knight Foundation | Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) | 5,750,000 | |
| Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix) | 5,697,609 | |
| Kansas Health Foundation | Kansas Leadership Center (Wichita) | 5,086,368 | |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation | Teach for America (New York) | 5,000,000 | |
| Houston Endowment | University of Houston | 5,000,000 | |
| Kresge Foundation | Regional Area Initial Link (M-1 RAIL) (Detroit) | 5,000,000 | |
| Edna McConnell Clark Foundation | Harlem Children’s Zone (New York) | 5,000,000 | |
| Note: Table shows the largest payment made by each foundation during the 2010 fiscal year. | |||
