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Grant recipient EIN 81-3975630Science and technology

Who funds Cortico Corporation?

7 private foundations gave Cortico Corporation in Boston, MA $6 million across 14 grants, in tax years 2018 to 2025.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2018 to 2025, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

14 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. Frieder Family FoundationChappaqua, NY 2025

    To further the exempt purpose of the organization

    $50,000
  2. Aphorism FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2024

    General support

    $1,000,000
  3. Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNew York, NY 2024

    For support of the "Real Talk" dialogues, empowering young people to bridge divides and engage meaningfully on critical issues

    $520,000
  4. QuadriviumNew York, NY 2024

    General

    $250,000
  5. The Rockefeller FoundationNew York, NY 2024

    To encourage student civic engagement and leadership

    $225,000
  6. Aphorism FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2023

    General support

    $1,000,000
  7. QuadriviumNew York, NY 2023

    General

    $250,000
  8. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2023

    To deploy cortico's ai-supported tools to hold, record, and analyze small-group conversations at scale among 8-10 public media stations to lift underrepresented voices around the 2024 election and launch a tech-enhanced model for engagement journalism.

    $250,000
  9. Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNew York, NY 2023

    As one-time project support to build a pilot program to document, understand and share experiences of underserved communities and how they access trusted information sources around education

    $240,000
  10. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2022

    LVN project

    $200,000
  11. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2020

    To help journalists better listen to and inform communities by using machine learning to analyze online and offline community conversations and to improve understanding of the issues people care about.

    $667,000
  12. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2019

    To help journalists better listen to and inform communities by using machine learning to analyze online and offline community conversations and to improve understanding of the issues people care about.

    $667,000
  13. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2019

    To promote journalistic excellence by supporting transparency, listening and storytelling tools for online conversations with machine learning applied to data sources such as twitter, facebook, reddit, google search and wikipedia.

    $450,000
  14. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2018

    To promote journalistic excellence by supporting transparency, listening and storytelling tools for online conversations with machine learning applied to data sources such as twitter, facebook, reddit, google search and wikipedia.

    $250,000

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other science and technology organizations in Boston, MA and are not among Cortico Corporation’s funders above.

  1. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 13 grants Preselected only $2,774 to similar organizations
  2. AbbVie FoundationNorth Chicago, IL 3 grants Preselected only $70 to similar organizations
  3. Novo FoundationHurley, NY 6 grants Preselected only $2,800,000 to similar organizations
  4. Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationPalo Alto, CA 1 grant Preselected only $1,960,000 to similar organizations
  5. Durfee FoundationLos Angeles, CA 8 grants Accepts applications $1,237,935 to similar organizations
  6. The Benificus FoundationSan Carlos, CA 1 grant Preselected only $250,000 to similar organizations
  7. The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show IncBoston, MA 1 grant Preselected only $226,209 to similar organizations
  8. Richard King Mellon FoundationLigonier, PA 1 grant Accepts applications $200,000 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 81-3975630 by name and ZIP code, or by name, city and State against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.