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The Pershing Square Foundation Grants

Private foundation · EIN 20-8068401 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024

Total grants paid
$10.9M
Grants reported
56
Typical grant
$250K
Future commitments

Reported commitments not yet paid.

$6M

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: THE PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION

Where The Pershing Square 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.

The Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard

CAMBRIDGE, MA

$750KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Research project: "programmable therapeutics: building the foundation for the next wave of medicine"

Amchai

MIAMI, FL

$500KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

General support

The Rockefeller University

NEW YORK, NY

$300KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Support for research project entitled, stimulating synaptic protein degradation for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

The Regents of the University of California (University of California Davis

DAVIS, CA

$250KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Pershing square sohn prize for young investigators in cancer research

Regents of the University of California San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

$250KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

The mind (maximizing innovation in neuroscience discovery) prize

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from The Pershing Square 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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