Deadline: 8/19/22 (LOI)
Amount: $5,000-$1,000,000 (typical grant size: $100,000-$500,000)
Website: https://www.templeton.org/grants
Description:
Funding from the John Templeton Foundation is intended for projects in the areas of science and center around deep questions facing humankind, character virtue development, individual freedom and free markets, exceptional cognitive talent and genius, genetics, and voluntary family planning.
Funding Areas:
- The Science & the Big Questions Funding Area supports innovative efforts to address the deepest questions facing humankind.
- The Character Virtue Development Funding Area seeks to advance the science and practice of character, with a focus on moral, performance, civic, and intellectual virtues such as humility, gratitude, curiosity, diligence, and honesty.
- The Individual Freedom & Free Markets Funding Area supports education, research, and grassroots efforts to promote individual freedom, free markets, free competition, and entrepreneurship.
- The Exceptional Cognitive Talent & Genius Funding Area supports programs that aim to recognize and nurture exceptional cognitive talent, especially for those at an early stage of life. This Funding Area also supports research concerning the nature of cognitive genius, including extraordinary creativity, curiosity, and imagination.
- The Genetics Funding Area seeks to advance genetics research by supporting novel approaches and contrarian projects, especially research that is undervalued by traditional funding sources.
- The Voluntary Family Planning Funding Area supports research, programs, and policy development efforts around the world that seek to better understand factors that influence family planning decisions, provide information on and access to family planning methods and strengthen policy related to effective family planning.
Eligible applicants:
Generally, the John Templeton Foundation funds charitable entities that operate inside and outside of the United States. On rare occasions, it may fund individuals and for-profit companies doing charitable work that is consistent with its tax-exempt status.
The John Templeton Foundation generally does not fund buildings, renovations, or capital campaigns; direct-service programs; scholarships for college or graduate school; general operating support for organizations; or disaster relief.
PROGRAM CONTACT
John Templeton Foundation
300 Conshohocken State Road, Suite #500
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
(610)-941-2828, info@templeton.org