California · Private foundation
The Agouron Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $441,222
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Agouron Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $6.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.5M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $599k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $2.0M | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | $9,014,530 | 9 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $1,413,308 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $455,907 | 2 | n/a |
| Gordon Research Conferences Inc | $358,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | $275,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Selkirk Conservation Alliance | $235,600 | 4 | 80% |
| Yale University | $228,252 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $206,932 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $200,276 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $144,136 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | $9,014,530 | 9 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $1,413,308 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $455,907 | 2 | n/a |
| Gordon Research Conferences Inc | $358,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | $275,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Selkirk Conservation Alliance | $235,600 | 4 | 80% |
| Yale University | $228,252 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $206,932 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $200,276 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $144,136 | 4 | 0% |
| Bahamas Marine Ecocentre | $137,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $135,158 | 4 | n/a |
| Yale University | $72,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $64,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Biophysical Society | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York Structural Biology Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Geochemical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of California Davis | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $7,750 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $6,483 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $3,025 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $2,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Yale University | $1,790 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Agouron Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Simons Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Agouron Institute
- How much does The Agouron Institute give?
- The Agouron Institute reported 25 grants totaling $1,807,866 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Agouron Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (79%), Education (19%), Environment (2%).
- Who are The Agouron Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Institute of Technology ($9.0M), Pennsylvania State University ($1.4M), Regents of the University of California ($456k).
- Does The Agouron Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Agouron Institute accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Agouron Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Simons Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Agouron Institute based?
- The Agouron Institute is based in CA.
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