Renaissance Philanthropy

Our mission is to “Fuel a 21st century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists, and innovators.”

What We Do

We advance our mission by advising philanthropists, surfacing breakthrough ideas, and incubating ambitious initiatives.

• Providing Strategic Advice: We partner with new, emerging, and current philanthropists interested in building ambitious philanthropic initiatives. Despite its immense potential, science and technology philanthropy is complex and time-intensive. We focus on reducing the barriers to science philanthropy by identifying systemic bottlenecks; providing access to experts to diligence specific ideas; and facilitating partnerships across philanthropy, government, and industry that yield outsized results.
• Surfacing Breakthrough Ideas: We help scientists, technologists, and innovators dream bigger. We build networks and maintain active relationships with frontier experts across science and technology. We push them to identify breakthrough field strategies that pair technical insights with the right levers for greatest impact, from coordinated research programs and the use of prizes and market-shaping mechanisms, to policy entrepreneurship.
• Incubating Ambitious Initiatives: We design, launch, and implement novel and ambitious philanthropic programs and funds. With more than three decades of experience building moonshots that have transformed multiple fields, we provide the infrastructure needed to design and operate such efforts: recruiting and supporting the right program-leads; building a core of committed donors; sourcing and evaluating awardees; and cultivating an ecosystem of partners across sectors who act as force multipliers.