Funds

ARC is a philanthropic fund focused on combating catastrophic climate risks through translational R&D. It backs expert-led programs to research new options to predict, prevent, and mitigate tipping point risks like ice sheet collapse, Arctic destabilization, and runaway methane emissions.

The AI for Education program, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, seeks to discover and support breakthrough ideas that can drive student success.

Active projects include the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) Math and Literacy, and CareerNet.

The AI for Math Fund, supported by founding donor XTX Markets, seeks to advance the pace and impact of math discovery by supporting projects that are important for the field. Through open funding calls, we uncover new ideas to address key needs including promising technical research, new paradigms and concepts for machine learning research in mathematics, and critical tools to empower mathematicians.

Incubated within the Advanced Research for Climate Emergencies (ARC) program, the Arctic Stabilization Initiative (ASI) advances Arctic-targeted climate interventions to slow or reverse our trajectory toward planetary thresholds. ASI delivers the predictive tools and formal scientific benchmarks necessary to evaluate whether proposed interventions can slow or reverse our trajectory toward planetary thresholds such as tipping points and loss of summer sea ice.

The Chimaera Fund aims to responsibly and rapidly scale geologic hydrogen – the first new primary energy source discovered in 80 years.

Drawing from the playbooks that scaled other subsurface revolutions like shale gas and geothermal energy, we invest in open-access field demonstrations and advise national and subnational governments on effective policy designs to unlock the industry by 2030.

Cosmic Frontier Labs is building a new class of scientific tools to accelerate discovery and exploration of the Universe.

The Mathlib Initiative provides professional resources to support the community-driven development of Mathlib, an open-source library of formal mathematics written in the Lean theorem prover. Rather than replacing volunteer contributions, the Initiative amplifies them through dedicated editorial support, infrastructure development, and ecosystem coordination.

A multi-donor philanthropic fund sustaining and evolving the open source software stack that underpins science. With $20 million in anchor funding from Biohub and Wellcome, and support from The Kavli Foundation and the Research Software Alliance, the fund aims to invest in the open computational foundations of science, and the communities behind them, with an initial focus on the life sciences.

The Public Benefit Innovation Fund is a philanthropic venture fund and R&D lab which is supported by Renaissance Philanthropy. PBIF provides seed funding and technical support for researchers, nonprofits, academic labs, startups, and technologists working to improve social service delivery.

The Talent Mobility Fund increases the use of existing but underused immigration pathways through a multi-track expert-led grants program. Legal barriers often limit talent’s ability to move to opportunity, but there is a wide range of pathways that are under-utilized relative to their potential.

Tertiary accelerates the pace, scale and deployment of technological innovation by sourcing, structuring and monitoring loan guarantees for sustainable infrastructure projects backed by private philanthropic capital. By putting funds at risk instead of giving it away as grants, Tertiary offers philanthropists a new way to have impact.

The UK Horizons Programme seeks to supercharge the UK’s R&D ecosystem by building networks of innovators, expanding the diversity of science translation mechanisms in the UK, strengthening the UK’s philanthropic ecosystem, and building research translation strategies.