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Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc: 55 grants to organizations, $3.7 million (tax year ended December 2025)
Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc, a private foundation in Washington, DC, paid 55 grants to organizations totaling $3,659,399 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on May 12, 2026. The largest was $200,000 to Biobus Inc in New York, NY for launching biobus's mobile science labs in new england.
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- EIN
- 136081860
- Based in
- Washington, DC
- Assets
- $25,895,295
- Grants paid
- $3,784,399
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed May 12, 2026, IRS object ID 202611329349104611. It reported $3,784,399 in grants paid; 55 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biobus Inc | New York, NY | Launching biobus's mobile science labs in new england | Health care | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Halo Trust (USA) Inc | Washington, DC | Next-generation detection and the application of machine learning to landmine clearance | International, foreign affairs and national security | $199,525 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of Ecole Normale Superieure | Timonium, MD | Bridging computational gaps to tackle epidemic spread | $175,230 | apps.irs.gov | |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College James Martin Center for Nonprol | Middlebury, VT | Building global nuclear security expertise:the cns visiting fellows program | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Resources for the Future | Washington, DC | Lowering expectations of the size of human population | Environment | $140,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | Richard lounsbery award | Science and technology | $131,165 | apps.irs.gov |
| Academie Des Sciences Institut de France | Paris, FR | From enlightenment to ai: 250 years of scientific revolutions across the atlantic podcast series | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Albertine Foundation | New York, NY | Lafayette fellowship | Arts, culture and humanities | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | Rlf french-american fellowship, dr. a. laudrain | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of CS Inc | Red Hook, NY | Celebrating america's 250th with scholarships to study at u.s. universities | Education | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institut Du Cerveau Et de La Moelle Epiniere | Paris, FR | Rlf french-american fellowship, dr. a. levine | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The University of Alabamam Alabama Water Institute | Tuscaloosa, AL | Determining needs to build the northern gulf of america coastal observatory | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Academie Des Sciences Institut de France | Paris, FR | Exhibition on modern microbiology at louis pasteurs house in arbois, france | $105,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Documentary Association | Los Angeles, CA | Documentary: bridging oppenheimer's vision of global cooperation through film | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Internet Archive | San Francisco, CA | Archiving us government web and dataset material | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kennan Institute | Washington, DC | Restoring the kennan institute for advanced russian studies | International, foreign affairs and national security | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | Initiative to develop a joint israelarab science fellowship | Science and technology | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trust for the National Mall | Washington, DC | The restoration of lafayette park | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Alabama Alabama Materials Institute | Tuscaloosa, AL | Immersive stem experience in materials science for teachers | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Nelson Mandela University | Gqeberha, SF | Promoting african leadership in deep-water exploration | $99,994 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sorbonne Universite Cellf | Paris, FR | Studies of the part of diderot's encyclopedie concerned with technology and production | $99,935 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Agence Neo-Caledonienne de La Biodiversite | Kone, NC | Increasing understanding of groups of species unique to french islands of the south pacific | $98,112 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cientifco Latino Inc | South Ozone Park, NY | Year 2 of seed funding for cientifco latino, inc. | $97,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hudson River Park Trust | New York, NY | Lower hudson river edna partnership | Recreation and sports | $94,990 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | Inspiring lives in sciences: conversations with role-model biologists | Science and technology | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | The archival lives of lewis thomas: a biographical inquiry | $69,035 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Russian-American Science Association (rasa) Corp | Brookline, MA | To enhance networking of russian diaspora scientists | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fundacion Instituto de Biologia Y Medicina Experimental (fundacion Ibyme) | Buenos Aires, AR | Support for a laboratory in argentina - rabinovich | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ifibyne-Uba-Conicet Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Y Naturales Uba | Buenos Aires, AR | Support for a laboratory in argentina - kornblihtt | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Instituto de Biologia Molecular Y Celular de Rosario (ibr-Conicet) | Santa Fe, AR | Support for a laboratory in argentina - binolfi / de mendoza | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York University Grossman School of Medicine | New York, NY | Support for the laboratory of cell biologist dr. david sabatini | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Us Sciences Po Foundation | New York, NY | Franco american scientific traffic - understanding successful exchanges on american campuses | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | Increasing understanding of groups of species unique to french islands of the south pacific | $48,645 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Carnegie Council | New York, NY | Seed funds for building an ethical framework for biotechnology in space | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mountain Valley Horse Rescue | McCoy, CO | Feed for horses in recovery | Animal-related | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College Through the Harvard TH Chan Scho | Boston, MA | To develop the sholarly basis of a documentary on childhood malnutrition | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Resources USA Inc | Alexandria, VA | French-american doctoral exchange program through us french embassy | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Revolution 250 Inc | Boston, MA | Public discussion on the impacts of benjamin franklin on science and libraries | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | French-american innovation day: bridging health innovations french and nyc perspectives | Education | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Swiss Institute | New York, NY | French-american collaboration on artificial intelligence and the writing and reading of poetry | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Arms Control Negotiation Academy Woodrow Wilson International Center | Washington, DC | Arms control negotiation academy (acona) educational programs in the summer of 2025 | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Association Connaissance Et Protection Du Patrimoine Naturel | Etampes, FR | Support for scientific research in djibouti | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Arms Control Association | Washington, DC | Support for american participation in expert meetings on non-proliferation in beijing | International, foreign affairs and national security | $10,591 | apps.irs.gov |
| Resources USA | Alexandria, VA | To support performance of a play about the life of marquis de lafayette at the french embassy | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Story Collider | New York, NY | Story collider's live science storytelling events | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | High school catalyst program: biomedical summer research experience for new york high school students | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Council On Foundations | Washington, DC | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations Leap Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Pathways to economic mobility | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church | Palm Coast, FL | Memorial fund | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Door | New York, NY | Francophone immigration legal services | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Id Art Center Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Scholarship for french immersion preschool in new york | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New York University Grossman School of Medicine | New York, NY | Support for laboratory and research of latin american science | $4,827 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Candid | New York, NY | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $4,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation | Boston, MA | For acquisition of materials about forgery of documents by the french resistance for safe conduct during world war ii | $4,100 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Philanthropy Roundtable | Washington, DC | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed May 9, 2025, IRS object ID 202501299349103105. It reported $3,954,807 in grants paid; 53 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Philosophical Society | Philadelphia, PA | Americas scientific revolutionaries: programming to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence | Arts, culture and humanities | $399,300 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Strategic & International Studies | Washington, DC | Understanding and strengthening us-latin america educational exchange from a public diplomacy perspective | International, foreign affairs and national security | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress | Washington, DC | Celebrating american innovation over the past 250 years | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Columbia University Teachers College | New York, NY | 1776: seedtime of american education - programming to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence | $210,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Alumnusb (universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America Inc) | Waltham, MA | Inter-institutional collaboration project for early career scientists from argentina, uruguay, chile and bolivia in the fields of science and technology | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| French-American Cultural Foundation | Washington, DC | Support for french film project aimed at creating awareness in the u.s. about the vulnerability of the polynesian atoll ecosystems | Arts, culture and humanities | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | Support for building a new coalition of us oceanographic institutions to address critical ocean science challenges of today | $152,630 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Interspecies Io Inc | Dover, DE | Supporting our understanding and appreciation of the communication systems of other species | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Myriad USA | New York, NY | Support for bioice-exploring: looking for biological markers in ice cores to uncover ecosystem response to change | International, foreign affairs and national security | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Jewish Museum | New York, NY | Support for an exhibition about jewish visual culture in colonial america and the revolution | Arts, culture and humanities | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Alex Foundation | Swampscott, MA | Comparing grey parrots' intelligence to that of human children and adults | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Alexander Hamilton Society | Washington, DC | 1776: studying the beginnings of the american republic's early foreign policy | International, foreign affairs and national security | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Support to develop a free, online high-quality economics textbook | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Universidad Simon Bolivar Alumni Association of America Inc | Waltham, MA | Scholarships for students and faculty in venezuela in the natural sciences at usb | $115,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York University | New York, NY | Advancing digital rights in library communities | Education | $111,100 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | North Hampton, MA | Preparing undergraduate women for advanced summer internships in computational and applied mathematics | Education | $100,617 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seti Institute | Mountain View, CA | Satellite impacts and community astronomy network (sican): support to harness a global network of citizen scientists to monitor satellites | Science and technology | $100,401 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trustees of Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Translating a course about science of optics in the visual arts for the general public | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Dna analysis of cultural heritage | $78,591 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Geopedis Association | Pibrac, FR | The starry walk - a documentary film inspired by a 6 week walking and driving adventure under the sky of california to educate the public about the dangers of light pollution. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Indiana University | Kokomo, IN | Making renaissance florentine burial records freely accessible online for historical and medical scholarship | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Hydro-Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences | Gdansk, PL | Studying leonardo da vinci's drawings to understand flow forensic analysis using modern experimental techniques | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York University Grossman School of Medicine | New York, NY | Support for research laboratory of department of cell biology and dr. david sabatini | $55,914 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | Boone, NC | Department chairs discretionary fund for biology students & faculty following hurricane helene | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cientifico Latino Inc | South Ozone Park, NY | Seed funding for cientifico latino as they help low-income and first-generation graduate school students navigate the graduate school | Science and technology | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Datacite International Data Citation Initiative Ev | Hannover, GM | Advancing open science infrastructure by addressing challenges in data accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Center for Open Science | Charlottesville, VA | Supporting transparency in the evaluation of academic research | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Biobus Inc | New York, NY | Updating of mobile science lab for k-12 students | Health care | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress | Washington, DC | Support for a book about euro-atlantic defense & security since ukraine | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of Europe Asbl | BE | Support for a study to inform policy recommendations to strengthen transatlantic cooperation | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of the New York Transit Museum | New York, NY | Support for book about second avenue subway | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Boston, MA | Support for sabbatical study for french scientistat the harvard medical school | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institut de Paleontologie Humaine Fondation Albert Ler Prince de Monaco de | Paris, FR | Research on origin and cultural evolution of human | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Instituto de Biologia Molecular Y Celular de Rosario | Rosario, AR | Support for argentine laboratory researching a protein implicated in parkinsons disease | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Leonardo Da Vinci Heritage Association | Vinvi Fi, IT | Tuscan excavations related to leonardo da vinci's biological traces | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Marine Technology Society Inc | Washington, DC | Marine technology society edna committee launch | Science and technology | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Oceans Initiative | Vancover, CA | Acoustic prospecting: exploring low-cost methods to measure, map, and monitor ocean noise | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Professional Children's School | New York, NY | General operating support | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Realclearpolitics Institute for News and Information | Northbrook, IL | Enhancing coverage of new environmentalism by the realclearscience website | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Resources USA | Alexandria, VA | Support for the women in science diplomacy association | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Khartoum Alumni Association North America | Grand Blanc, MI | Establishing university of khartoum new international examination center in riyadh, kingdom of saudi arabi | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Changing Norms Inc | Jamaica, NY | Changing norms stem camp | Youth development | $13,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | Support for french participation at the beebe symposium on ai and ml applications in radiation therapy, diagnostics, and occupational health and safety | Science and technology | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | Durham, NC | Hurricane helene disaster relief | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Resources for the Future | Washington, DC | Support for advancing programmatic priorities of the next leader of resources for the future | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC | Hurricane helene disaster relief | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stanford University | San Francisco, CA | Support for a study on air pollution in africa | $9,754 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Council On Foundations | Washington, DC | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brooklyn Workforce Institute (leap Inc) | Brooklyn, NY | Support for career training for low-income new yorkers | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Exam Schools Partnership Initiative Inc | New York, NY | Espi: city smart scholars program of academic enrichment and test preparation | Education | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Samaritan's Purse | Boone, NC | Hurricane helene disaster relief | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Candid | New York, NY | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $4,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Roundtable | Washington, DC | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $1,149,300 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $835,116 |
| Education | $566,717 |
| Science and technology | $476,566 |
| Health care | $215,000 |
| Environment | $150,000 |
| Human services | $100,000 |
| Recreation and sports | $94,990 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| New York | $1,770,616 |
| District of Columbia | $1,737,926 |
| Massachusetts | $749,717 |
| California | $435,155 |
| Pennsylvania | $399,300 |
| Alabama | $225,000 |
| Connecticut | $198,591 |
| Maryland | $175,230 |
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Updated May 12, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.