Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
Invitation OnlyPalo Alto, California · EIN 94-3397785 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$403M
Organizations funded920
Typical grant$200,000
Total assets$11.5B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $7,400 and $449,575.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2024 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
60% of grants went outside California.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | In support of a unique technology platform and associated resources that supports immersive educational experiences that also benefits… | $20,000,000 |
| Makeway Foundation | Vancouver, CA | In support of british columbia durability. | $10,000,000 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | To support climate resilient fisheries management. | $10,000,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | To strengthen implementation of the conservation and markets initiative. | $8,250,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To support launch of the global geo-trees initiative for tropical forests, which will create a high-resolution carbon biomass verification… | $8,000,000 |
| Resources Legacy Fund | Sacramento, CA | To launch a funding facility that will support countries to develop and implement ambitious policies for nature and climate. | $6,500,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | San Francisco, CA | This grant will support the creation of the diagnostic excellence center for engagement, learning, and action (dxcelerator) at ucsf. | $5,000,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Redwood City, CA | To support mainstreaming the integration of natural capital approaches into development policy and finance. | $5,000,000 |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | Palo Alto, CA | To support the long-term stewardship of wildlife passage, endangered species conservation and protected watershed in the south bay. | $4,250,000 |
| International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To support the acceleration and standardization of nature-related disclosures at a global scale. | $3,990,000 |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | Arlington, VA | In support of the acquisition and permanent protection of richmond ranch in santa clara county. | $3,500,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Cambridge, MA | To support the construction of a prototype radio-telescope dish for the next-generation event horizon telescope at the teide observatory in… | $3,400,000 |
| Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc | Millbrook, NY | In support of a western u.s. fire ecology and forest resilience science collaborative to advance new knowledge and improved understanding… | $3,322,613 |
| Universitaet Wien | Vienna, AU | In support of research to integrate quantum computing with electron microscopy, creating a new imaging technology that can provide highly… | $3,222,267 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | Palisades, NY | To support the development of a three-dimensional model of the earth's internal dynamics by integrating quantum geophysics, geodynamics,… | $3,191,160 |
| Earth Fire Alliance | San Francisco, CA | In support of initial operational capability preparation of the firesat program. | $3,000,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Covington, KY | In support of seed funding for early stage, innovative opportunities in basic research, as identified by hypothesis fund's scientist scouts. | $3,000,000 |
| STEM Next Opportunity Fund | San Diego, CA | In support of organizational capacity to pivot to a new structure for broadened impact and field leadership. | $3,000,000 |
| Great Bear Initiative Society | Vancouver, CA | In support of durable marine stewardship. | $2,700,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Berkeley, CA | In support of the development, piloting, and evaluation of resources and materials that aim to teach scientifically grounded reasoning for… | $2,643,572 |
| Asociacion Para LA Conservacion de LA Cuenca Amazonica | Lima, PE | In support of the infrastructure, construction and renovations required for los amigos biological station to be a leading venue for… | $2,600,000 |
| Inaturalist | San Rafael, CA | To enable inaturalist to realize its potential as a global scientific and conservation sensor by 2030, harnessing data from its user… | $2,500,000 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | In support of the implementation of deforestation and conversion-free commitments by meatpackers in south america. | $2,500,000 |
| The Tech Interactive | San Jose, CA | In support of an earthquake exhibition area with a shake table simulator, themed design challenges, and interactive data visualization… | $2,492,357 |
| Makeway Foundation | Vancouver, CA | In support of durable marine conservation. | $2,428,153 |
| Regents of the University of California | Berkeley, CA | To support strategic efforts to enhance visitor experience at the public science center. | $2,361,675 |
| Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | To support the development and commissioning of the high-resolution infrared spectrograph for exoplanet characterization (hispec) for the… | $2,350,000 |
| California Academy of Sciences | San Francisco, CA | In support of the complete digitization and documentation of an extensive global collection of historical botany specimens. | $2,200,000 |
| Ocean Conservancy Inc | Washington, DC | To support and protect ecological hotspots and strengthen science-based fisheries management in the u.s. bering and chukchi seas. | $2,193,000 |
| The Exploratorium | San Francisco, CA | In support of an architectural master plan for campus site. | $2,133,414 |
| Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated | Washington, DC | To increase public understanding of and participation in biodiversity action projects through targeted programming in science centers and… | $2,127,741 |
| Conservation X Labs Inc | Washington, DC | In support of developing empirically validated multimodal and autonomous ai models that will accelerate the speed and scale of scientific… | $2,000,000 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | In support of the organizational development and planning for scale of sensor-based kits and platforms for conservation, education, and… | $2,000,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | To facilitate the transition away from agricultural use of point reyes national seashore to conservation-focused management that will… | $2,000,000 |
| Oceana Canada | Toronto, CA | In support of durable sustainable fisheries management. | $2,000,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Cambridge, MA | To support development of ultrafast laser data link technology that will enable millimeter-wave astronomy from medium earth orbit,… | $2,000,000 |
| Scratch Foundation | Boston, MA | In support of the integration of ai into a coding platform to support creative learning for youth at scale. | $1,960,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | Washington, DC | To support the development of a global nature-based solutions platform. | $1,930,000 |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Boston, MA | To promote collaboration between the society to improve diagnosis in medicine's diagnostic quality improvement seed grant program and the… | $1,896,061 |
| The Exploratorium | San Francisco, CA | In support of increased fundraising and growth in organization donor base. | $1,886,403 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | In support of smart sensors integrated into a subsea telecommunications cable in the vanuatu-new caledonia region to advance ocean science,… | $1,881,916 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | In support of efforts to advance wildfire resilience in alaska. | $1,879,765 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | In support of the implementation of deforestation and conversion-free commitments by soy traders in south america. | $1,817,875 |
| Science Philanthropy Alliance Inc | New York, NY | In support of the science philanthropy alliance's 2024 activities to strengthen philanthropic support for basic research. | $1,800,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | To support the development of a portable, low-cost, and error-free long-read sequencing platform using resonant nanophotonic biosensors. | $1,800,000 |
| The Exploratorium | San Francisco, CA | In support of the development of space-themed immersive experiences, interactive exhibits and public programming. | $1,797,244 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | In support of the development and dissemination of online community research guides for youth to learn about water and agriculture and… | $1,753,656 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Santa Rosa, CA | In support of the acquisition and permanent protection of the kiser ranch property in sonoma county. | $1,750,000 |
| West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation | Vancouver, CA | In support of durable marine conservation. | $1,700,000 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | To support the amazon waters alliance in mobilizing collaborative knowledge and action to conserve the integrity of amazon freshwater… | $1,693,424 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Barbara, CA | In support of work on cosmic cataclysms to understand their physical origin and to elucidate longstanding astronomical problems regarding… | $1,680,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | In support of research to apply quantum photonics to study and control active molecular matter. | $1,646,641 |
| Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society | Ottawa, CA | In support of durable marine conservation. | $1,600,000 |
| Computer History Museum | Mountain View, CA | In support of infrastructure enhancements required to open museum collections online to the public and strategic planning. | $1,565,264 |
| Centre de Regulacio Genomica Fundacio Privada | Barcelona, SP | In support of creating standardized approaches for aquatic symbiosis cell atlases and a cell atlas database for the scientific community. | $1,523,854 |
| Green Finance Institute | London, UK | To support the development and implementation of nature markets to accelerate private investment in nature globally and meet objectives… | $1,500,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | In support of a select pilot to achieve results by key indicators (spark) project for the colorado river sustainability campaign. | $1,500,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | San Francisco, CA | For the acquisition and permanent protection of the martha property in marin county. | $1,500,000 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | To advance conservation of priority targets for the integrity and connectivity of freshwaters and forests in the amazon basin. | $1,500,000 |
| Climateworks Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To advance the designation of public lands in the amazon to secure forest protection and the territorial rights of indigenous peoples,… | $1,440,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 920 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | To support the development of the thirty meter telescope. | $6,650,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | To support the development of the thirty meter telescope. | $6,650,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To support launch of the global geo-trees initiative for tropical forests, which will create a high-resolution carbon biomass verification… | $4,000,000 |
| Asociacion Para LA Conservacion de LA Cuenca Amazonica | Lima, | In support of the infrastructure, construction and renovations required for los amigos biological station to be a leading venue for… | $2,600,000 |
| Ostara Group Limited | London, | To support coalitions of actors to reimagine commodity value chains and business models. | $1,788,607 |
| Instituto de Energia E Meio Ambiente | Sao Paulo, | To support the integration of analyses on economic viability and socio-environmental risks, as well as participation of communities and… | $1,667,800 |
| Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | To support the development and commissioning of the high-resolution infrared spectrograph for exoplanet characterization (hispec) for the… | $1,488,429 |
| California Academy of Sciences | San Francisco, CA | In support of the complete digitization and documentation of an extensive global collection of historical botany specimens. | $1,476,048 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | In support of infrastructure, community, and resource development to position for scaling microscopy to broad audiences. | $1,454,323 |
| Universite de Geneve | Geneva, | In support of creating an expansion microscopy image database of microbial eukaryotes accessible through an interactive platform. | $1,366,249 |
| Regents of the University of California | Berkeley, CA | In support of strengthening connection and collaboration between community members of moorea and scientists who visit the island to carry… | $1,254,684 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | In support of the organizational development and planning for scale of sensor-based kits and platforms for conservation, education, and… | $1,215,000 |
| Amazon Conservation Association | Washington, DC | To improve real-time monitoring of illegal gold mining in the amazon and mechanisms to use this information for better enforcement. | $1,200,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Davis, CA | To understand why some high temperature superconductor compounds maintain superconductivity at high carrier density, a parameter regime… | $1,050,625 |
| Regents of the University of California | Berkeley, CA | To test relativity and search for dark matter using high precision clock comparisons across a tabletop network of optical lattice atomic… | $1,029,224 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | To elucidate the dynamics of inertial particles in turbulent flows that generate mesoscopic electric fields, crucial for understanding… | $1,020,000 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | To explore new ways of controlling strongly interacting electron systems utilizing the fundamental interaction between electron spins and… | $1,014,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To explore new quantum photonic architectures for efficient high-dimensional quantum state control and information processing, with precise… | $1,013,849 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | To support the creation of novel hybrid states of matter through strong magnon-photon interaction in materials coupled with microwave… | $1,006,048 |
| The Exploratorium | San Francisco, CA | In support of a research and development fund and process to spur nimble exhibit and public program development. | $1,000,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | To develop a new experimental toolbox for efficiently generating quantum entanglement in arrays of atomic qubits by strongly coupling the… | $992,000 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | To probe the fundamental limits of precision measurement and spectroscopy with diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers. | $984,000 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | To realize and investigate experimentally bloch-like hamiltonians in two, three and higher dimensions using josephson devices, and assess… | $977,647 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | To develop special-purpose quantum hardware and a framework of associated algorithms to study molecular and condensed-phase dynamics… | $976,000 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | To synthesize high-power attosecond (10-18 S) optical pulses of light, which will enable attosecond time-resolved measurement and control… | $975,022 |
| Fundacion Para LA Conservacion Y El Desarrollo Sostenible | Bogota, | To support the implementation of the green road infrastructure guidelines in colombia and promote their dissemination across other amazon… | $950,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | Washington, DC | To support the implementation of the green road infrastructure guidelines in colombia and promote their dissemination across other amazon… | $950,000 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | To elucidate the nature of evolved stealthy hyperuniform materials in living systems, and discern how evolution has realized the… | $943,000 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | To support development of fabrication protocols for integration of thin-film oxide materials with photonic crystal cavities, and… | $942,073 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Barbara, CA | To measure the electric dipole moment of the electron as a path to search for time reversal symmetry violations by using crystal defects in… | $929,569 |
| The University of Exeter | Exeter, | In support of testing a novel hypothesis about the evolution of selective microbial membrane permeability to explain why life's building… | $917,597 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | To search for the interaction of visible photons in vacuum as predicted by quantum electrodynamics.deviations from theory could indicate… | $912,000 |
| Trustees of Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | To combine electron-spin resonance and scanning tunneling microscopy for quantum sensing and manipulation of spin states, focusing on… | $911,824 |
| University of Florida Board of Trustees | Gainesville, FL | To conduct a series of events in support of amazon conservation. | $890,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | Washington, DC | To implement new mechanisms to expand area-based conservation and enhance effective management systems in the brazilian amazon. | $875,000 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | To study the low-temperature behaviors of the fermi-hubbard model by probing ultracold gases at the single-atom level in an extreme… | $857,051 |
| Institute de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel Mamiraua | Tefe, | To expand and consolidate a participatory path for the sustainable use, effective management and conservation of coastal para mangroves. | $848,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Cambridge, MA | To support development of ultrafast laser data link technology that will enable millimeter-wave astronomy from medium earth orbit,… | $816,719 |
| Associacao Transparencia E Integridade | Sao Paulo, | To promote transparency, open government, and integrity to reduce the socio-environmental impacts of infrastructure projects in the… | $803,000 |
| Instituto Conexoes Sustentaveis | Belem, | To catalyze a sociobioeconomy approach by establishing three regional, community-led business ecosystems that enhance local livelihoods and… | $800,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Barbara, CA | To discover and identify the origins of new classes of nonlinear light-matter interactions driven by the magnetic field component of light. | $784,000 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | To measure how peaks and valleys below a spinning, convecting layer of liquid metal affects the speed, structure, and capacity for… | $762,625 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | To support innovation awards at u.s. institutions to incorporate open scholarship practices in academic departments. | $750,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | Berkeley, CA | To support the development of a novel quantum-limited atomic force microscope with force sensitivity and atomic spatial resolution, which… | $750,000 |
| Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management | Smithers, | In support of a select pilot to achieve results by key indicators (spark) project in the bulkley-morice watersheds, british columbia,… | $734,689 |
| University of Montana | Missoula, MT | To support a learning exchange for place based pilots. | $722,876 |
| Associacao de Pesquisa Aplicada Conservacao E Desenvolvimento Sustentavel | Manaus, | To accelerate the development and expansion of community-led fisheries and consolidate access to markets in the amazon floodplain along the… | $700,000 |
| Fundacion Gaia Amazonas | Bogota, | To support the effective management of indigenous lands in the colombian and venezuelan amazon. | $700,000 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | To support investigations of the phenomenon of polariton condensation and the creation of interacting polariton states in materials coupled… | $700,000 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Durham, NH | To explore quantum dots in charge density wave materials towards creating a novel platform for qubits with engineerable properties that can… | $689,000 |
| Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | To use terahertz frequency light to control crystal chirality and associated material properties. | $678,112 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | To strengthen implementation of the conservation and markets initiative. | $650,000 |
| Universitaet Wien | Vienna, | In support of research to integrate quantum computing with electron microscopy, creating a new imaging technology that can provide highly… | $613,765 |
| Conservation X Labs Inc | Washington, DC | In support of developing empirically validated multimodal and autonomous ai models that will accelerate the speed and scale of scientific… | $610,480 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | Palisades, NY | To support the development of a three-dimensional model of the earth's internal dynamics by integrating quantum geophysics, geodynamics,… | $607,840 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | In support of the laboratory of dr. linda ye, which will target exploratory synthesis of exotic novel magnetic and superconducting… | $600,000 |
| Global Fishing Watch Inc | Washington, DC | To continue to expand the use of gfw's vessel viewer tool to keep illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (iuu) associated fish from… | $600,000 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | In support of the laboratory of dr. aravind devarakonda, which will investigate topologically ordered and correlated electronic phases… | $600,000 |
| Associacao Sumauma Organizacao de Comunicacao E Projetos Sociais | Sao Paulo, | To amplify the voices of forest peoples through journalism, raising awareness and promoting conservation efforts in the amazon. | $570,000 |
| Conservation X Labs Inc | Washington, DC | In support of innovation to protect biodiversity and promote healthy ecosystems and communities through community-centered fire stewardship. | $550,427 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $403,028,969 | 1,027 |
| 2023 | $401,820,277 | 1,109 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 14, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202503189349103305
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 94-3397785
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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