Grant funders

John Templeton Foundation

Private foundation, Pennsylvania

Also known as Fundación John Templeton, Fundação John Templeton, John Templeton Fund, Templeton Foundation

United States
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Given in 2025 $147.7m
Typical grant $1.0m Middle half $260k to $2.0m
New grantees in 2025 42% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

42% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 37% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

California 36 grants · typical $305k
District of Columbia 29 grants · typical $240k
Massachusetts 22 grants · typical $234k
New York 18 grants · typical $233k
Virginia 12 grants · typical $670k
Pennsylvania 8 grants · typical $1.6m
Scotland 8 grants · typical $523k
Georgia 8 grants · typical $912k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Princeton university Bouncing Cosmology: Explaining the past and predicting the future of the universe $1.4m 1 Aug 2026
Veritas Forum Fostering Humble Inquiry Through Dialogue and the Exploration of the Big Ideas That Shape Students’ Lives—on Campus and Beyond $3.0m 1 Mar 2026
The Dialogue Promoting humility, empathy, and civil discourse in American higher education $4.5m 1 Jan 2026
Carnegie Mellon University Explaining Universal Truths $2.2m 1 Jan 2026
Pew Research Center Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Phase IX $3.6m 1 Jan 2026
Center for Christianity and Public Life Advancing Knowledge Regarding Virtue and Character Formation with Civic Leaders: CCPL’s Public Life Fellowship Program $260k 1 Jan 2026
Duke University Can AI Agents Increase Open-Mindedness and Facilitate Productive Dialogue about Social Problems? $1.5m 1 Jan 2026
University of southern california Growing a Universe from Quantum Scales: Discovery at the Intersection of Cosmology, Epistemology, and Interactive Visual Media. $4.0m 12 Dec 2025
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research Consortium $3.2m 10 Dec 2025
University of connecticut Contributions of the Psychology of Religion/Spirituality to the Social Determinants of Health Paradigm $260k 1 Dec 2025

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