MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Date Founded

1970

Headquarters

140 South Dearborn Street,Chicago, IL 60603-5285

Charitable Causes

Private Grantmaking Foundations
Private Independent Foundations
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations
Film, Radio & Arts Media

Employees (Worldwide)

251 - 500

Industries

Social Interest
Investment Services & Portfolio Management

Company Description

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a grant making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, helps strengthen institutions, helps improve public policy and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Website

http://www.macfound.org

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In The News

Targeted News Service

January 16, 2020

American University's Center for Media & Social Impact Receives $1.1 Million

Philanthropy News Digest

December 17, 2019

MacArthur Foundation to Increase Overhead Support for Grantees

PR Newswire

December 5, 2019

Coalition of Foundations and Family Offices Launch the Tipping Point Fund to Scale the Impact Investing Field; Blue Haven Initiative, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Omidyar Network will anchor the $12.5 million pool of philanthropic capital

The New York Times

December 4, 2019

Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures’

Associated Press Financial Wire

November 25, 2019

A second chance on Chicago's South Side

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Executives & Employees

John G. Palfrey, Jr.

President

Kenneth M. Jones II

Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Joshua J. Mintz

Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary 100&Change Impact Investments

Mark J. Franke

Managing Director, Private Equities

David A. Greenwald

Managing Director, Absolute Return & Fixed Income

Jonathan Leight

Managing Director, Asset Allocation & Risk Management

Cecilia A. Conrad

Managing Director, MacArthur Fellows & 100&Change, Chief Executive Officer, Lever for Change

Andrew Solomon

Managing Director, Communications

Elizabeth T. Kane

Managing Director, Core Services

Chantell Johnson

Managing Director, Evaluation

Board of Directors

Daniel P. Huttenlocher

Dean, Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John G. Palfrey, Jr.

President at MacArthur Foundation

James Manyika

Chairman & Director, McKinsey Global Institute & Senior Partner, High Tech at McKinsey & Co., Inc.

Martha L. Minow

Professor at Harvard University

Cecilia Muñoz

Former Director at Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Under Barack Obama (D)

Paul H. Klingenstein

Founder at Aberdare Ventures

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

Founding Director at The University Of Chicago - Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics

Claude M. Steele

Former I. James Quillen Dean at Stanford University - Graduate School of Education

Julie Katzman

Former Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President at Inter-American Development Bank

Sendhil Mullainathan

Co-Founder at Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc.

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Advisors & Consultants

Advisor

Sue Lehmann

Co-Founder at Chalkbeat

Advisor

Sheila Widnall

Vice President at National Academy of Engineering

Consultant

Gillian Darlow

Chief Executive Officer at Polk Bros. Foundation, Inc.

Non-Profit Donations & Grants

$50K - $100K

2019

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust

$500K +

2018

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

$500 +

2018

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Non-Profit Donations & Grants Received

$1.38M

2010

Temple University

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