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Grant recipient EIN 95-2540449Education

Who funds Institute for the Future?

18 private foundations gave Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA $8.3 million across 48 grants, in tax years 2018 to 2024.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2018 to 2024, 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

48 grants

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

  1. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

    $1,000,000
  2. Freedom Together FoundationNew York, NY 2024

    General operating support

    $350,000
  3. Freedom Together FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    General operating support

    $350,000
  4. Tingari FoundationAustin, TX 2023

    To support organization's purpose

    $60,000
  5. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2023

    78771 exploring equitable enterprises to promote opportunity, wealth, security, and health for diverse workers and their families

    $50,000
  6. Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA 2023

    To train opportunity youth service providers on how to utilize its foresight model as a tool for engaging in collective work with a focus on the future of workforce development

    $40,000
  7. Annie E Casey Foundation IncBaltimore, MD 2023

    Support the foundation's participation in the institute for the future's vantage program

    $35,000
  8. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    General support

    $30
  9. The Ford FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    To develop equitable enterprise strategies and policies as a pathway to fostering greater economic security among workers in low-wage work.

    $250,000
  10. Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA 2022

    To perform ethnographic research of young people around the world around attitudes towards work and the changing economy and research of potential strategies and solutions to help workers succeed in a rapidly changing economy

    $250,000
  11. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2022

    78771 exploring equitable enterprises to promote opportunity, wealth, security, and health for diverse workers and their families

    $200,000
  12. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2022

    79493 partnering with institute for the future in its forecast summit examining how our evolving values about place connect to sustainable, equitable growth

    $50,000
  13. S H Cowell FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2022

    General operating support.

    $50,000
  14. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2022

    General support

    $48
  15. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2021

    identify and broadly disseminate strategies and policy solutions to incentivize the growth and success of equitable enterprises

    $500,000
  16. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2021

    To support equitable enterprise in CA

    $500,000
  17. The Ford FoundationNew York, NY 2021

    To develop equitable enterprise strategies and policies as a pathway to fostering greater economic security among workers in low-wage work.

    $250,000
  18. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2021

    78771 Exploring equitable enterprises to promote o

    $250,000
  19. Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA 2021

    To perform ethnographic research of young people around the world around attitudes towards work and the changing economy and research of potential strategies and solutions to help workers succeed in a rapidly changing economy.

    $250,000
  20. The McConnell FoundationRedding, CA 2021

    unrestricted

    $75
  21. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2021

    General support

    $19
  22. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2020

    identify and broadly disseminate strategies and policy solutions to incentivize the growth and success of equitable enterprises

    $500,000
  23. California Physicians' Service FDN DBA Blue Shield of California FDNSan Francisco, CA 2020

    California commission on the future of work

    $300,000
  24. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2020

    To advance knowledge on future of work

    $250,000
  25. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2020

    For COVID-19 response support

    $150,000
  26. The California Wellness FoundationLos Angeles, CA 2020

    For project support to develop scenarios informed by the social sector in california, including funders, advocates and policymakers, with the goal of embedding racial and health equity into systemic responses to this and future pandemics/disasters.

    $150,000
  27. California Physicians' Service FDN DBA Blue Shield of California FDNSan Francisco, CA 2020

    Rapid response funding addressing the covid-19 public health crisis in support of healthy families and communities in california

    $125,000
  28. Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family FundSan Francisco, CA 2020

    General operating support

    $100,000
  29. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2020

    78009 Guiding organizations of all kinds to antici

    $50,000
  30. Tingari FoundationAustin, TX 2020

    To support organization's purpose

    $50,000
  31. The California EndowmentLos Angeles, CA 2020

    Advancing health and economic opportunity in covid-19 recovery: to support a visioning process that develops scenarios for improving health, education, civic engagement and economic opportunity in california as part of covid-19 recovery.

    $40,000
  32. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2020

    75590 Facilitating a convening to understand how c

    $19,771
  33. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2020

    76404 Supporting the Future 50 Partnership's focus

    $8,500
  34. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2020

    General support

    $114
  35. The McConnell FoundationRedding, CA 2020

    unrestricted 12/1

    $75
  36. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2019

    To advance knowledge on future of work

    $450,000
  37. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2019

    To Protect Immigrant Rights

    $250,000
  38. The Ford FoundationNew York, NY 2019

    To support the California Commission on the Future of Work which aims to analyze the challenges facing workers in the state and to make recommendations about how to build a more just inclusive future

    $200,000
  39. Lumina Foundation for Education IncIndianapolis, IN 2019

    To support the California Commission on the Future of Work

    $100,000
  40. The James Irvine FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2019

    To launch a growth fund

    $100,000
  41. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2019

    76404 Supporting the Future 50 Partnership's focus

    $76,500
  42. The California EndowmentLos Angeles, CA 2019

    Supporting the alzheimer's prevention and preparedness task force: to support the collaboration, research and recommendations for how local communities, private organizations, businesses, government and families can work together to prevent and prepare for the rising prevalence of alzheimer's disease in california.

    $25,000
  43. The Ford FoundationNew York, NY 2019

    Earmarked SubGrants from the Ford Foundations Grant to Institute of International Education for the Global Travel and Learning Fund $10,000 To help develop and support the Equitable Futures Lab and to conduct strategic planning G12993

    $0
  44. California Physicians' Service FDN DBA Blue Shield of California FDNSan Francisco, CA 2018

    Foresight research on health and economic security in the new era of work

    $346,638
  45. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic InnovationPalo Alto, CA 2018

    Entrepreneurial technology network exploration research

    $180,000
  46. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2018

    75590 Facilitating a convening to understand how c

    $177,936
  47. The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationMenlo Park, CA 2018

    For support of research on digital disinformation and political polarization in the us

    $150,000
  48. Lumina Foundation for Education IncIndianapolis, IN 2018

    To create a Future Skills Framework to inform the redesign of curriculum and student-serving organizations.

    $100,000

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other education organizations in Palo Alto, CA and are not among Institute for the Future’s funders above.

  1. The David and Lucile Packard FoundationLos Altos, CA 21 grants Accepts applications $869,816 to similar organizations
  2. Atkinson FoundationSan Francisco, CA 6 grants Accepts applications $45,000 to similar organizations
  3. Verizon FoundationBasking Ridge, NJ 7 grants Preselected only $126,410 to similar organizations
  4. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncCharlotte, NC 14 grants Accepts applications $29,827 to similar organizations
  5. The Pfizer Foundation IncNew York, NY 7 grants Preselected only $20,289 to similar organizations
  6. CM Capital FoundationPalo Alto, CA 14 grants Accepts applications $7,984 to similar organizations
  7. Skyline FoundationSan Francisco, CA 12 grants Preselected only $3,000,000 to similar organizations
  8. The Sobrato Family FoundationMountain View, CA 8 grants Accepts applications $715,400 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 95-2540449 by name and ZIP code against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.