This page is a member feature!

Enter your email to view one of our profiles.

You'll also receive emails from GrantStation. Unsubscribe anytime.

If you are already a member, just log in.

Unlock more funder details for only 41 cents a day.

Access curated grants, proven strategies, and expert tools to empower your organization.
Join now

If you are already a member, just log in.

×
GrantStation logo

The Leakey Foundation

You can save this to your dashboard.

You can hide this from results when using the Hide saved filter.

You can mark this as not applicable

You can hide this from results when using the Hide not applicable filter

Print Profile

Description

The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

The Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins.

Current funding priorities include: 

  • paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene;
  • modern hunter-gatherer groups; and,
  • primates, including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, and...
Description

More from this funder

These are other opportunities from this funder
Emergency Fund for Primate Field Research
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship
Franklin Mosher Baldwin Fellowship
Joan Donner Field School Scholarship
Research Grants

Opportunity Information

Application Deadlines
Application Deadlines
Geographic Scope
Geographic Scope
Additional Clarification
Additional Clarification
Areas of Interest
Areas of Interest
Types of Support
Types of Support
Funder Information
Total Annual Giving
$1,525,460
Type
Type
EIN
EIN
Application Procedures
Application Procedures

Requirements

Eligibility Details
Eligibility Details

Contact Information

General Contact
General Contact
Primary Contact
Primary Contact

Grants History

This funder has a page on their website listing previous grantees.
Grants Awarded

You can review tax forms on ProPublica. Learn more about them and the 990.

990s

This is a list of grant recipients noted on the funder’s 990 forms.

This includes forms filed in 2023 and later, so it can include information for tax years earlier than that.

The information below is pulled directly from the form itself without any alterations.

If the details are not included, e.g. “Various”, they may be indicated on the PDF on the IRS site.

Grants less than $5,000 are not necessarily listed on the 990 form.

The full list of grants awarded is available to members. Join today!
Map of Giving
Total Giving
Median Giving
Average Giving
Comparison
Number of Grantees
Total assets

The most recent tax form filed for 2024 lists the following key individuals.

Name Title
ALICE MARKS CORNING Trustee
ARIELLE JOHNSON Education Director
CAMILLA D SMITH Trustee
CHESTER KAMIN Trustee
DANA LAJOIE Secretary
DONALD E DANA Trustee
DR ANNE MAGGIONCALDA Trustee
DR DIANA MCSHERRY Vice President
DR HENRY W GILBERT Trustee
DUGGAN JENSEN Treasurer
ELISE BROWN ERSOY Trustee
ERICA BROWN GADDIS Trustee
GORDON P GETTY Chairman Of The Board
H BODEN GREGORY Program Officer
J MICHAEL GALLAGHER Trustee
JEANNE NEWMAN President
JORGE LEIS Trustee
JOSEPH B UPCHURCH Senior Development Analyst
JULIE M LA NASA Trustee
MARK GETTY Trustee
The full list of key leaders is available to members. Join today!