National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance
Hadley, MA
$3MTax year 2024
To support inventive mindsets and skillsets among higher education students and to foster institutional conditions that nurture such students
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The Lemelson Foundation Grants
Private foundation · EIN 88-0391959 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024
Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.
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This foundation reports on its 990-PF that it only makes contributions to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications.
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Original filing text
Reported organization name: THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION
Where The Lemelson Foundation gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
National Science Foundation
Alexandria, VA
$1.7MTax year 2024
To enable innovative collaborative research on sustainability by fostering efforts to transform engineering education to prepare graduating engineers to address environmental and social sustainability
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc
Washington, DC
$1.3MTax year 2024
To support pre-development activities necessary to support tribes seeking to develop renewable energy projects on their lands
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
$1.2MTax year 2024
To (1) support the lemelson-mits invention education work in developing the next generation of inventors, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and (2) advance the field of invention education
Rocky Mountain Institute
Boulder, CO
$1MTax year 2024
To source, select, support, and scale promising startups through rmis third derivative and climate-aligned industries programs focused on decarbonizing three heavy industries: cement and concrete, petrochemicals, and steel
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Figures are aggregated from The Lemelson Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (1 filing on file, most recent tax year 2024). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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