Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Invitation OnlyHouston, Texas · EIN 26-3241764 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$193.3M
Organizations funded789
Typical grant$122,776
Total assets$4.8B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $49,000 and $277,392.
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
96% of grants went outside Texas.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The City Fund | Beaverton, OR | To provide general operating support to support grantee's efforts to partner with local leaders to create innovative public school systems,… | $12,500,000 |
| Mdrc | New York, NY | To support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (I)… | $5,000,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | To support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers… | $3,500,000 |
| Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning | Nashville, TN | To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program. | $3,322,000 |
| Center for Effective Public Policy | Kensington, MD | To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform. | $3,014,108 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the… | $3,000,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | To continue to develop and publicly disseminate policy options to regulate and control drug spending. | $2,000,000 |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | Brooklyn, NY | To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and facilitate rigorous… | $2,000,000 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | To support grantee's center on health insurance reforms in providing policymakers and key stakeholders with educational resources and… | $1,974,997 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To expand pwbm's ability to provide accurate, accessible, and transparent budget and economic analysis of public policy by providing more… | $1,862,391 |
| Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To support grantee's work in bringing greater attention and visibility to hospital and health system spending, prices, finance, and… | $1,500,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | To construct a cyclotron facility and procuring the installation of the first 30 mev proton beam within the cyclotron facility. | $1,500,000 |
| The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc | Boston, MA | To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug… | $1,500,000 |
| Social Finance Inc | Boston, MA | To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing. | $1,399,010 |
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget | Washington, DC | To support fiscal policy work related to tax and budget policy. | $1,255,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | To support the state and local innovation initiative ("slii") of grantee's abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america. | $1,250,000 |
| Terner Housing Innovation Labs Inc | Oakland, CA | To support (1) the scaling of grantee's housing supply simulator tool to new states and municipalities to assist policymakers and… | $1,168,912 |
| Project on Predatory Student Lending Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | To provide general operating support. | $1,140,154 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | To support and expand grantee's gun policy in america initiative which provides the public, policymakers, and journalists with needed… | $1,108,364 |
| American University | Washington, DC | To support the postsecondary equity and economics research ("peer") project and its efforts on accountability and student loan research,… | $1,091,090 |
| West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education | Charleston, WV | To support the expansion of the city university of new york's accelerated study in associate programs program in two west virginia… | $1,080,324 |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | To support welcoming neighbors network education fund, and its efforts to remove regulatory barriers to expand the supply of housing across… | $1,000,000 |
| Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation | Washington, DC | To support grantee's second chances agenda, which aims to build support at the state and federal levels for evidence-based sentencing… | $1,000,000 |
| Fwdus Education Fund Inc | Washington, DC | To support policy analysis, advocacy, and education work to safely reduce prison terms, recidivism, and the incarcerated population, reduce… | $1,000,000 |
| Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To support new research and data analysis to inform forthcoming policy discussions related to medicare sustainability and affordability in… | $1,000,000 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Chicago, IL | To support the immediate maintenance and transition of the rapid employment and development initiative (readi), a causal evidence-backed… | $1,000,000 |
| The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc | Boston, MA | To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on promoting meaningful clinical trials. | $1,000,000 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To support the transit costs project at grantee's marron institute and its efforts to (1) further advance research in the causes of high… | $978,913 |
| Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice | Washington, DC | To support a pilot evaluation on the adoption of counsel at first appearance in virginia. | $945,308 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To be used by the policing project at grantee's school of law to develop and promote publicly available and nonpartisan model legislation… | $900,000 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Research Triangle Park, NC | To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110. | $900,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | To generate evidence on emerging issues in medicare advantage of interest to policymakers, specifically 1) affinity plans and 2) ghost… | $878,275 |
| For the People | Oakland, CA | To support implementation of prosecutor-initiated resentencing ("pir") nationally, resulting in prosecutors offices implementing the law… | $850,000 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | Denver, CO | To raise awareness in state legislatures on criminal justice data and causal research, to increase knowledge of policy options, and support… | $833,262 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | To provide technical assistance for states implementing pharmaceutical policy interventions that lower drug prices. | $812,502 |
| Ah Datalytics | New Orleans, LA | To build and develop the real-time crime index ("rtci"), an infrastructure for regularly collecting data from hundreds of law enforcement… | $802,165 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | To conduct credible research, analyze policy proposals, and provide in-depth technical assistance to federal policymakers to advance… | $800,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | To establish a collaborative of foremost experts on dual-eligible research to provide policy-responsive analyses on integration between… | $800,000 |
| The Good Nation Foundation Inc | New York, NY | To advance the successful implementation of health policy changes that are taking place to support individuals' well-being as they leave… | $795,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California San Diego | Oakland, CA | To conduct research on changes to risk adjustment in medicare advantage (ma) to inform policy proposals and ongoing administrative efforts… | $789,000 |
| Urban Institute | Washington, DC | To conduct research and analysis to inform policy discussions on key aspects of the medicare program related to competition and spending… | $775,000 |
| Urban Institute | Washington, DC | To fund the tax policy center. | $750,000 |
| City of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | To assess recent reforms and new initiatives in prosecutorial decision making in philadelphia communities. | $715,979 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | To conduct research and policy translation related to insurance design and market structure in the united states healthcare system. | $710,417 |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Washington, DC | To support a cohort of tax and budget policy groups in generating state-level analyses on the impact of fines and fees to support fee… | $684,166 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | To support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project, which will evaluate the… | $683,353 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | St Louis, MO | To support a randomized controlled trial ("rct") to assess the effects of transforming seven units in missouri prisons based on the… | $679,339 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | To embed a research unit within the connecticut department of social services, with the aim of supporting the state medicaid office to use… | $679,271 |
| Mdrc | New York, NY | To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning. | $677,308 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the change in policy governing police department use and documentation of pretextual stops. | $670,128 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, DC | To analyze a series of developments in prescription drug markets with the goal of understanding the consequences of various responses… | $665,000 |
| University of California College of the Law San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | To analyze policy solutions aimed at improving coordination between the fda and the uspto, while focusing on ensuring competition in the… | $660,000 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | To support center for advancing the study of health care research. | $640,862 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Research Triangle Park, NC | To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites. | $621,822 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | To examine mega-health systems that span states, markets, and service lines with the goal of understanding underlying economic mechanisms. | $620,093 |
| Land Use Atlas Inc | Washington, DC | To support grantee's national zoning atlas and its efforts to support zoning code reform by documenting information about zoning codes in… | $617,970 |
| Health Care Cost Institute Inc | Washington, DC | To inform policymakers of the factors that drive high healthcare spending and potential policy interventions. | $617,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To conduct a mega study - a large-scale randomized controlled trial that aims to simultaneously evaluate ten different low-cost… | $610,483 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | To support the prison and jail innovation lab with the overall goal of strengthening and improving correctional oversight across the united… | $601,976 |
| Texas Tribune Inc | Austin, TX | To provide general operating support for journalism. | $600,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 789 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $193,332,143 | 789 |
| 2023 | $162,949,201 | 644 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 17, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513219349102841
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 26-3241764
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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