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$500-million
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BP America (Chicago)
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U. of California at Berkeley
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To create the Energy Biosciences Institute
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$200-million
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation (Rockville, Md.)
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To conduct clinical trials of potential vaccines against tuberculosis
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$200-million
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Seattle)
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California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) and U. of California System (Oakland, Calif.)
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To develop and help build a nearly hundred-feet long telescope
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$150-million
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Packard Humanities Institute (Los Altos, Calif.)
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Library of Congress (Washington)
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To preserve film and audio recordings at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, in Culpeper, Va.
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$125-million
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ExxonMobil Foundation (Irving, Tex.)
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National Math and Science Initiative (Dallas)
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To support training programs for mathematics and science teachers
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$113-million
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William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.)
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U. of California at Berkeley
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To endow 100 professorships
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$112-million
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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D.C. College Success Foundation (Washington)
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For efforts to increase the number of youths from low-income families in Washington who graduate from high school and college
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$105-million
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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U. of Washington (Seattle)
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To establish the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research center that will evaluate health programs worldwide
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$105-million
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Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation (Dedham, Mass.)
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Cedars-Sinai Prostate Cancer Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), FasterCures: the Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions (Washington, D.C.), and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Mass.)
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To support patient care and research in cancer and burn recovery
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$100-million
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Warren Alpert Foundation (Providence, R.I.)
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Brown U. (Providence, R.I.)
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To support its medical school
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$100-million
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Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation (Houston)
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John Motley Morehead Foundation (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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To increase the number of merit-based scholarships available to undergraduate students at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through the Morehead Scholars Program
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$100-million
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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Rotary Foundation (Evanston, Ill.)
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For a global campaign to eradicate polio, particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
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$100-million
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Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering (Sylmar, Calif.)
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Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.)
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To endow an institute for research on biomedical technologies and ways to commercialize its findings
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$100-million
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Robert and Janice McNair Foundation (Houston)
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Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
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For research on breast and pancreatic cancer, juvenile diabetes, and the neurosciences
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$100-million
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco)
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U. of California at Davis
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To create the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
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$100-million
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T. Boone Pickens Foundation (Dallas)
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U. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) and U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Dallas)
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For unrestricted support
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$100-million
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Donald W. Reynolds Foundation (Las Vegas)
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Smith Center for the Performing Arts (Las Vegas)
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To build a second performance hall and education center
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$100-million
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Stanley Medical Research Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.)
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Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard U. (Cambridge)
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To establish a research center to apply genomics and chemical biology to the study of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
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Note: Includes cash grants only, not awards of equipment or other products.
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