Skoll Foundation

About Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation’s recent grantmaking is defined by large-scale support for systems change: a $11.4 million grant to Mayo Clinic for novel bio-therapeutics research, $3 million to Resolve to Save Lives Inc for the Prevent Epidemics Initiative, and $3 million to The One Campaign for core support. The foundation backs both delivery organizations and field builders, pairing health-system work with climate, democracy, and social-innovation infrastructure. It also funds intermediaries that move money and ideas across entire networks, including New Venture Fund, TED Foundation Inc, and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. That pattern shows up in the types of organizations it supports. The Skoll Foundation has given seven-figure grants to community health implementers such as Last Mile Health and Living Goods, while also supporting ecosystem actors like the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford and the Wellbeing Project through King Baudouin Foundation United States Inc. Its portfolio includes funders, research institutions, advocacy groups, and conveners, with repeated emphasis on catalytic support at an inflection point rather than narrow project funding.

What Skoll Foundation Funds

In global health and epidemic preparedness, the foundation gave $7,021,950 to Mayo Clinic for novel bio-therapeutics research and $3,000,000 to Resolve to Save Lives Inc for the Prevent Epidemics Initiative. It also funded the Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria with $3,000,000 for the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund, reinforcing a public-health strategy that links research, prevention, and frontline delivery. Its climate-related giving includes $4,000,000 to The Alliance for Climate Protection for general operating support and $1,200,000 to 2x Global Limited for the Climate Gender Equity Fund. On democracy and civic resilience, the foundation gave $2,000,000 to Protect Democracy Project for general operating support and $2,000,000 to New Venture Fund for the Center for Secure and Modern Elections. The foundation also invests in social-innovation infrastructure. It supported Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and TED Foundation Inc for the Audacious Project, both tied to networks that elevate entrepreneurs and ideas.

How Skoll Foundation Gives