Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc
Private foundation · Washington, DC · EIN 13-6081860 · reported 2023–2025
163grants reported
$50Kmedian award
$15Klower quartile
$2,500smallest grant
$11.6Mtotal paid
20states reached
3years giving
This foundation funds faith-based organizations. 2 of its 163 reported grants went to churches, ministries or other religious organizations, $155K in total. That is what it paid, not what it says in a policy.
Gives every year. This foundation reported grants in 2023, 2024, 2025. A funder that shows up year after year is worth a letter even if this year is a no.
Where to write
601 Thirteenth Street NW Suite 1030
Washington, DC 20005-3807
Address as registered with the IRS. Most foundations this size have no website and no application form, which is not a dead end: a short letter to this address is the whole process, and almost nobody sends one.
Who they funded
| Recipient and stated purpose | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| American Philosophical Society AMERICAS SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARIES: PROGRAMMING TO CELEBRATE THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING O | Philadelphia, PA | $399,300 |
| Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation Nato Science and Tech Org EMPOWERING NATO TO HELP MAINTAIN ITS MILITARY AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDGE TO FACE CURRENT AND FUTURE SECU | LA Spezia | $300,000 |
| Center for Strategic & International Studies UNDERSTANDING AND STRENGTHENING US-LATIN AMERICA EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE FROM A PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PERSPE | Washington, DC | $250,000 |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress CELEBRATING AMERICAN INNOVATION OVER THE PAST 250 YEARS | Washington, DC | $250,000 |
| Columbia University Teachers College 1776: SEEDTIME OF AMERICAN EDUCATION - PROGRAMMING TO CELEBRATE THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING | New York, NY | $210,000 |
| Biobus Inc LAUNCHING BIOBUS'S MOBILE SCIENCE LABS IN NEW ENGLAND | New York, NY | $200,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College WHO ARE THE PEOPLE OF EARLY MEDIEVAL FRANCE | Cambridge, MA | $200,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution EARTHS HISTORY SMITHSONIAN SCIENCES EDUCATION ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA | Washington, DC | $200,000 |
| Alumnusb (universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America Inc) INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION PROJECT FOR EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS FROM ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, CHILE | Waltham, MA | $200,000 |
| French-American Cultural Foundation SUPPORT FOR FRENCH FILM PROJECT AIMED AT CREATING AWARENESS IN THE U.S. ABOUT THE VULNERABILITY OF T | Washington, DC | $200,000 |
| The Halo Trust (USA) Inc NEXT-GENERATION DETECTION AND THE APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TO LANDMINE CLEARANCE | Washington, DC | $199,525 |
| University Court of the University of St Andrew's College Gate EXTENDING THE VALUE OF CTBTO ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS | Fife | $198,827 |
| American Museum of Natural History COSMIC VIEW OF LIFE ON EARTH, PART 2 | New York, NY | $183,013 |
| Friends of Ecole Normale Superieure BRIDGING COMPUTATIONAL GAPS TO TACKLE EPIDEMIC SPREAD | Timonium, MD | $175,230 |
| Cornell University BUILDING A GLOBALLY SYNCHRONIZED PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING EXPERIMENT | Ithaca, NY | $165,000 |
| University of Rhode Island SUPPORT FOR BUILDING A NEW COALITION OF US OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS TO ADDRESS CRITICAL OCEAN SCIE | Kingston, RI | $152,630 |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College James Martin Center for Nonprol BUILDING GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY EXPERTISE:THE CNS VISITING FELLOWS PROGRAM | Middlebury, VT | $150,000 |
| Internet Archive ADVANCING A LIBRARY IN A TIME OF WAR | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 |
| National Academy of Sciences CONFLICT, SCIENCE DIPLOMACY AND DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CAREER SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS IN EASTERN EUROPE | Washington, DC | $150,000 |
| Interspecies IO Inc SUPPORTING OUR UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS OF OTHER SPECIES | Dover, DE | $150,000 |
| Myriad USA SUPPORT FOR BIOICE-EXPLORING: LOOKING FOR BIOLOGICAL MARKERS IN ICE CORES TO UNCOVER ECOSYSTEM RESPO | New York, NY | $150,000 |
| The Jewish Museum SUPPORT FOR AN EXHIBITION ABOUT JEWISH VISUAL CULTURE IN COLONIAL AMERICA AND THE REVOLUTION | New York, NY | $150,000 |
| Resources for the Future LOWERING EXPECTATIONS OF THE SIZE OF HUMAN POPULATION | Washington, DC | $140,000 |
| African Diaspora Scientists Federation MOBILIZING DIASPORA SCIENTISTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO TRAINING OF AFRICAN STUDENTS IN SCIENCE | Indianapolis, IN | $135,000 |
| Federation of American Scientists TRILATERAL NATO WORKING GROUP ON FUTURE OF ARMS CONTROL | Washington, DC | $133,490 |
| National Academy of Sciences RICHARD LOUNSBERY AWARD | Washington, DC | $131,165 |
| Academie Des Sciences Institut de France FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO AI: 250 YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC PODCAST SERIES | Paris | $130,000 |
| Academie Des Sciences RICHARD LOUNSBERY FRENCH-AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 2024 AND ALUMNI NETWORK | Paris | $130,000 |
| Academie Des Sciences RICHARD LOUNSBERY AWARD | Paris | $130,000 |
| Albertine Foundation LAFAYETTE FELLOWSHIP | New York, NY | $125,000 |
| Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University RLF FRENCH-AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP, DR. A. LAUDRAIN | Stanford, CA | $125,000 |
| Friends of CS Inc CELEBRATING AMERICA'S 250TH WITH SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES | Red Hook, NY | $125,000 |
| Institut du Cerveau ET de LA Moelle Epiniere RLF FRENCH-AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP, DR. A. LEVINE | Paris | $125,000 |
| The University of Alabamam Alabama Water Institute DETERMINING NEEDS TO BUILD THE NORTHERN GULF OF AMERICA COASTAL OBSERVATORY | Tuscaloosa, AL | $125,000 |
| Universite Grenoble Alpes RLF FRENCH-AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP, DR. A. LOOBY | Saint Martin Dheres | $125,000 |
| Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc EIRXIV: EMERGING SCIENCE BY EMERGING SCIENTISTS- THE FIRST PREPRINT SERVER FOR PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS' | Chandler, AZ | $125,000 |
| Alex Foundation COMPARING GREY PARROTS' INTELLIGENCE TO THAT OF HUMAN CHILDREN AND ADULTS | Swampscott, MA | $125,000 |
| The Alexander Hamilton Society 1776: STUDYING THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC'S EARLY FOREIGN POLICY | Washington, DC | $125,000 |
| Women in International Security SUPPORT FOR WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH | Washington, DC | $124,250 |
| Authors Alliance PREVENTING DIGITAL OBSCURITY BY LOWERING LEGAL OBSTACLES TO STEM PUBLICATIONS | Berkeley, CA | $123,733 |
| Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of American SHORT INTERNSHIPS TO SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES IN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES FOR EARLY CAR | Waltham, MA | $120,000 |
| Yale University SUPPORT TO DEVELOP A FREE, ONLINE HIGH-QUALITY ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK | New Haven, CT | $120,000 |
| Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America Inc SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN VENEZUELA IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES AT USB | Waltham, MA | $115,000 |
| New York University ADVANCING DIGITAL RIGHTS IN LIBRARY COMMUNITIES | New York, NY | $111,100 |
| Crdf Global Inc PRESERVATION OF THE COLLECTION OF INCUNABULA OF THE VASYL STEFANYK LVIV NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY | Arlington, VA | $110,000 |
| Face Foundation TRANSATLANTIC RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION BETWEEN EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS IN THE | New York, NY | $110,000 |
| Academie Des Sciences Institut de France EXHIBITION ON MODERN MICROBIOLOGY AT LOUIS PASTEURS HOUSE IN ARBOIS, FRANCE | Paris | $105,000 |
| The Trustees of the Smith College PREPARING UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN FOR ADVANCED SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATI | North Hampton, MA | $100,617 |
| Seti Institute SATELLITE IMPACTS AND COMMUNITY ASTRONOMY NETWORK (SICAN): SUPPORT TO HARNESS A GLOBAL NETWORK OF CI | Mountain View, CA | $100,401 |
| International Documentary Association DOCUMENTARY: BRIDGING OPPENHEIMER'S VISION OF GLOBAL COOPERATION THROUGH FILM | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 |
| Internet Archive ARCHIVING US GOVERNMENT WEB AND DATASET MATERIAL | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 |
| Kennan Institute RESTORING THE KENNAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RUSSIAN STUDIES | Washington, DC | $100,000 |
| National Academy of Sciences INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP A JOINT ISRAELARAB SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP | Washington, DC | $100,000 |
| Trust for the National Mall THE RESTORATION OF LAFAYETTE PARK | Washington, DC | $100,000 |
| University of Alabama Alabama Materials Institute IMMERSIVE STEM EXPERIENCE IN MATERIALS SCIENCE FOR TEACHERS | Tuscaloosa, AL | $100,000 |
| D-Fi USA "D-FI USA: LEADING A SUSTAINABLE NONPROFIT SUPPORTING THE FRENCH"SCIENCE DIASPORA IN THE US" | North Haven, CT | $100,000 |
| Dreams With NO Limits DREAMS WITH NO LIMITS: SEED FUNDS FOR STEM PROGRAMS FOR NYC MALE YOUTH | Saint Albans, NY | $100,000 |
| Trustees of Harvard TRANSLATING A COURSE ABOUT SCIENCE OF OPTICS IN THE VISUAL ARTS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC | Cambridge, MA | $100,000 |
| Nelson Mandela University PROMOTING AFRICAN LEADERSHIP IN DEEP-WATER EXPLORATION | Gqeberha | $99,994 |
| Sorbonne Universite Cellf STUDIES OF THE PART OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE CONCERNED WITH TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION | Paris | $99,935 |
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