The Patrick J Mcgovern Foundation Inc
Invitation OnlyBoston, Massachusetts · EIN 22-3021586 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$66.2M
Organizations funded165
Typical grant$395,000
Total assets$1.5B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $240,000 and $500,000.
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
84% of grants went outside Massachusetts.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation International Foundation | Arlington, VA | To refine an ai tool for evaluating natural climate solutions projects, build ai literacy within the conservation community, and explore… | $1,500,000 |
| United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) | FR | To advance ethical ai governance through civil society networks, policy frameworks, and knowledge resources. | $1,500,000 |
| World Resources Institute | Washington DC, DC | To expand wris data lab for climate-focused ai innovation and global data accessibility. | $1,500,000 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | Washington DC, DC | To enhance public understanding and policy discourse around ai. | $1,250,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | To support the charitable purpose and activities of public charities | $1,100,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | To support the charitable purpose and activities of public charities | $1,100,000 |
| The Boston Foundation | Boston, MA | To support the charitable purpose and activities of public charities | $1,100,000 |
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | To integrate ai-driven technologies into blue star families platform, enhancing military families engagement and resource access. | $1,000,000 |
| Breaktime | Boston, MA | To promote tech-enabled crisis readiness through sustainable support for young adults experiencing housing insecurity. | $1,000,000 |
| Public Interest Technology (Pit) Infrastructure Fund | Washington DC, DC | To support nsfs responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies (redddot) program. | $1,000,000 |
| Trust and Safety Tooling Hub | Washington DC, DC | To scalably deliver open-source trust and safety tools to companies of all sizes. | $1,000,000 |
| Amnesty International | UK | To support amnestys algorithmic accountability lab to mobilize and empower civil society to evaluate ai systems and pursue accountability… | $750,000 |
| Audere | Seattle, WA | To develop an ai toolkit to enable the creation of customized, locally relevant ai tools and datasets | $750,000 |
| Climate Policy Radar | UK | To support cpr's development of ai tools for advanced climate policy analysis and global legislative insights. | $750,000 |
| Generation - You Employed Inc | Washington DC, DC | To support generation's ai-enhanced curriculum for tech career access and economic mobility. | $750,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | To support the next phase of tnc's electronic monitoring innovation work. | $750,000 |
| Open Climate Fix Ltd | UK | To expand the use of ml-enabled renewable energy forecasting in india | $750,000 |
| Room to Read | San Francisco, CA | To advance literacy and gender equality outcomes through enhanced technology and data integration. | $750,000 |
| The American Ai Forum | San Francisco, CA | For support to close the opportunity gap in ai education, literacy, and skills development. | $750,000 |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Wbcsd) | SZ | To deepen the adoption and implementation of the pact technical standard | $750,000 |
| Climate Arc | Dover, DE | To advance the use of ai-tools in climate data analysis and improve the accuracy of net-zero transition assessments. | $690,000 |
| Nexleaf Analytics | Los Angeles, CA | To develop a holistic mis for connected devices in clinics and hospitals to support cultures of data use within health systems | $650,000 |
| Refed | Long Island City, NY | To advance data-driven food waste reduction strategies using ai and ml | $650,000 |
| Malaria No More Fund | Washington DC, DC | To provide direct support for ai-enabled, climate-smart data platform for malaria control and support data-driven decision-making within… | $600,000 |
| Newpublic | Oakland, CA | To launch ai tools that foster vibrant media ecosystems and explore ai use-cases for digital community platforms | $600,000 |
| Oceanmind | UK | To support oceanmind's global tracking of fossil fuel movements and enhance emissions transparency. | $600,000 |
| Open Supply Hub | Hudson, NY | To scale os hub's platform and integrate climate trace emissions data for enhanced supply chain transparency | $600,000 |
| The Marshall Project | New York, NY | To expand the reach and impact of the investigate this! initiative, a critical resource for enhancing local journalism on criminal justice… | $600,000 |
| Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team - Inc | Washington DC, DC | To advance hot's fair initiative, enhancing ai-assisted, community-driven mapping for vulnerable global regions. | $550,000 |
| American Journalism Project | Washington DC, DC | To expand ai tools and training for nonprofit newsrooms through the product & ai studio. | $500,000 |
| Benetech | Palo Alto, CA | To refine technology to convert classroom STEM materials into accessible formats and create an ai reading companion for students with… | $500,000 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington DC, DC | To support the ai equity lab in developing and publicizing recommendations that advance the public interest | $500,000 |
| Cascade Climate Inc | Somerville, MA | To launch a data sharing system for open-system cdr data and publish learnings from the data | $500,000 |
| Center for Ai and Digital Policy (Caidp) | Washington DC, DC | To support the development and implementation of ai policies that promote a just, fair, and accountable society | $500,000 |
| Common Sense Media | San Francisco, CA | To expand and unify common sense medias ai ratings across platforms, and develop ai literacy tools for safer digital environments. | $500,000 |
| Creative Commons | Mountain View, CA | To enhance the accessibility, sharing, and reuse of open climate data to address the climate crisis. | $500,000 |
| Cyberpeace Institute | SZ | To enhance the cyberpeace institutes ai-driven cybersecurity initiatives | $500,000 |
| Digital Medicine Society Inc | Boston, MA | To partner with dihi on the implementation of fit-for-purpose ai solutions in low-resource health systems. | $500,000 |
| Environmental Policy Innovation Center (Epic) | College Park, MD | To advance environmental data and technology adoption across federal agencies, building critical capacity for climate-positive… | $500,000 |
| Ffwd (Fast Forward) | San Francisco, CA | To build ai capacity and awareness throughout the tech for good ecosystem | $500,000 |
| Insupply Health Ltd | KE | To use ai to enhance supply chain functions for improved efficiency and effectiveness | $500,000 |
| Ja Worldwide Inc | Boston, MA | To strengthen ai literacy among young people and transform impact reporting with genai | $500,000 |
| Jhpiego Corporation | Baltimore, MD | To expand healthtech hub africas impact in health tech innovation. | $500,000 |
| Learning Equality | LA Jolla, CA | To build ai literacy and enable learning continuity in low-connectivity settings | $500,000 |
| Meedan Inc | San Francisco, CA | To use ml to help media organizations collaboratively respond to misinformation with verified fact checks | $500,000 |
| News Revenue Hub | San Diego, CA | To expand ai-driven advertising and sponsorship models, enhancing revenue for local journalism. | $500,000 |
| Noora Health | San Francisco, CA | To develop ai tools to support home health caregivers in global majority countries | $500,000 |
| Ona Systems Inc | KE | To improve and prepare onas open-source electronic health record platform, opensrp2, for further scale. | $500,000 |
| Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (Oecd) | FR | To support further development of the oecds ai index to guide and inform policy across member countries. | $500,000 |
| Quillorg | New York, NY | To design quill's ai literacy curriculum and train instructional models to provide automated feedback | $500,000 |
| Reach University | Alameda, CA | To expand ai and cs literacy through comprehensive teacher training programs. | $500,000 |
| Recidiviz Inc | Oakland, CA | To support ai-product roadmap to reduce incarceration and support policymakers in ethically using ai | $500,000 |
| Standearth | San Francisco, CA | To enhance ai-driven tools for tracking environmental impacts of deforestation and fossil fuel financing. | $500,000 |
| Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum) | Palo Alto, CA | To increase scalability of data-driven surplus medicine redistribution through automation and technology | $500,000 |
| Technovation | Menlo Park, CA | To further technovation's mission to empower girls with tech skills through ai and entrepreneurship programs. | $500,000 |
| The George Washington University | Washington DC, DC | To enable the creation of scalable and community-driven healthy corner store programs to improve food access and health outcomes in… | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkely, CA | To advance data science capacity and innovation in togo through the establishment of a data lab | $500,000 |
| Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (Find) | SZ | To advance standards and capacity for improved health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. | $450,000 |
| Intelehealth | Baltimore, MD | To refine ai models for clinical decision support in resource-constrained settings | $450,000 |
| Polaris | Washington DC, DC | To pilot ai use cases to generate insights from human trafficking data and implement survivor-centered data governance | $450,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 165 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icog Anyone Can Code Consultants | To support democratizing STEM education in ethiopia by providing fundamental programming and robotics training to underprivileged young… | $66,667 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $66,153,500 | 166 |
| 2023 | $66,457,146 | 181 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 10, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202523149349102822
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 22-3021586
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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