The Simons Foundation is a private foundation established in 1994 by Marilyn and Jim Simons with offices in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

. As one of the largest charitable organizations in the US with assets of over $5 billion in 2022, the foundation's mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. The foundation supports science by making grants to individual researchers and their projects. In 2021, Marilyn Simons stepped down as president after 26 years at the helm, and astrophysicist David Spergel was appointed president.

The Flatiron Institute

In 2016, the foundation launched the

Flatiron Institute The Flatiron Institute is an internal research division of the Simons Foundation, launched in 2016. It comprises five centers for computational science: the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA); the Center for Computational Biology (CCB); t ...

, its in-house multidisciplinary research institute focused on computational science. The Flatiron Institute hosts centers for computational science in five areas:

Funding Areas

The foundation makes grants in four program areas:

Simons Investigators awardees

Among other programs, the Simons Foundation funds the Simons Investigators in MPS programSimons Investigators
The Simons Foundation which provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions.

Simons Collaborations

In 2012 the foundation launched a new funding model, the Simons Collaborations, which brings funded investigators — sometimes from different disciplines — together to work on an important scientific problem. To date, 25 Simons Collaborations have been launched by the foundation's Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Life Sciences divisions and by its neuroscience initiatives.

White House BRAIN Initiative Alliance membership

As of December 2018, the Simons Foundation is listed as a White House BRAIN Initiative Alliance Member.The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) is working to understand the internal processes underlying cognition.

Major Gifts

In May 2022, the Simons Foundation partnered with Stony Brook University to boost diversity in STEM, with a $56 million gift. The Simons Foundation is a major supporter of Math for America, which has built a community of accomplished mathematics and science teachers who make a lasting impact in their schools, their communities, and the profession at large through collaboration and continued learning.

Supported Institutes

Philanthro-journalism

The foundation also funds two editorially independent online publications: Quanta Magazine and Spectrum (see Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative). Quanta reports on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences. Spectrum provides news and analysis of advancements in autism research.

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