Private foundation · EIN 46-4347021 · San Francisco, CA · Return for the year ending 2023-12-31

Where Aphorism Foundation's grants went

It reported $55.1M in grants paid across 33 lines. WHOFUNDS matched 89.7% of those dollars to 28 recipient organizations.

View the 990-PF

What its filing says about applications

Preselected only It checked the 990-PF box saying it only gives to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Contact names and phone numbers are on the filing itself. WHOFUNDS doesn't republish them.

Grants paid 33 published lines

RecipientPaidPurpose as filedMatch
Probalistic Computing Foundation
Cambridge, MA · EIN 82-3764421
$14,500,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame city 1.00
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Redwood City, CA · EIN 94-1156365
$10,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTKnown alias 1.00
Science for America
Cambridge, MA · EIN 88-2763460
$6,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
New America Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 52-2096845
$2,200,000GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Cz Biohub Network
San Francisco, CA · no confident EIN match
$2,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
Second Harvest Food Bank
San Jose, CA · no confident EIN match
$1,880,000GENERAL SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · EIN 04-2103594
$1,840,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame street 1.00
Mathesar Foundation
Commack, NY · EIN 84-5005410
$1,725,000GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Ffwd
San Francisco, CA · EIN 46-4626500
$1,250,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
Hypothesis Fund Pbllc
Mercer Island, WA · no confident EIN match
$1,175,000GENERAL SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
Securebio
Cambridge, MA · EIN 88-3068255
$1,160,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame street 1.00
American Friends of Libi
Brighton, MA · EIN 32-0081620
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Aurelia Institute
Cambridge, MA · EIN 87-2812643
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 0.88
B Lab Company
Philadelphia, PA · EIN 20-5958773
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame city 1.00
Center on Rural Innovation
Hartland, VT · EIN 82-4508477
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
Cortico Corporation
Boston, MA · EIN 81-3975630
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Ubi Charitable
San Francisco, CA · EIN 84-4621271
$1,000,000GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Falmouth, MA · EIN 04-3005094
$857,940GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Trustees of Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH · EIN 02-0222111
$699,500GENERAL SUPPORTKnown alias 1.00
The Association of Marshall Scholars
Cambridge, MA · EIN 22-2973653
$538,143GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA · EIN 77-0507525
$500,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Science and Technology Futures
Cambridge, MA · EIN 88-3129122
$500,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
Him for Her
Oakland, CA · EIN 83-1293236
$350,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
University of Toronto
Toronto, CA · outside the US
$339,172GENERAL SUPPORTForeign
From the Heart Productions
Oxnard, CA · EIN 95-4445418
$300,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Choose Love
New York, NY · no confident EIN match
$300,000GENERAL SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
Brown University
Providence, RI · EIN 05-0258809
$250,000GENERAL SUPPORTKnown alias 1.00
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, WI · EIN 39-0743975
$250,000GENERAL SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Equal Justice Initiative
Montgomery, AL · EIN 63-1135091
$200,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Daffy Charitable Fund
Los Altos, CA · EIN 86-3177440
$120,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame street 1.00
Georgetown University
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0196603
$110,000GENERAL SUPPORTKnown alias 1.00
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc)
New York, NY · EIN 13-3931449
$50,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame city 1.00
Locus Science Fiction Foundation
Oakland, CA · EIN 26-3333819
$50,000GENERAL SUPPORTSame street 1.00

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    16 recipients in common
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    8 recipients in common
  3. The Ford Foundation New York, NY
    8 recipients in common
  4. Jpmorgan Chase Foundation New York, NY
    8 recipients in common
  5. The Rockefeller Foundation New York, NY
    8 recipients in common
  6. Smith Richardson Foundation Greensboro, NC
    7 recipients in common
  7. Ge Foundation Norwalk, CT
    7 recipients in common
  8. The Cigna Group Foundation Philadelphia, PA
    7 recipients in common

Where this comes from

Grant lines are from Part XV of this foundation's Form 990-PF (XML). The filing names each payee but gives no tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched payees to the IRS Business Master File. Lines it couldn't match confidently are listed as filed. Method and limits.