Benchmark100 Impact / $
Impact-Per-Dollar Evidence Explorer
This page explores the 100 benchmark evidence notes collected for the future efficiency layer. These are readiness and evidence notes, not final impact-per-dollar rankings.
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100 shown of 100. Last collected: 2026-05-21.
| Funder | Readiness | Denominator | Numerator | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| strong | Hevolution has unusually strong denominator evidence. It states an annual budget of up to $1B. A 2025 report... | Impact numerator evidence includes named grant recipients, 49 HF-GRO awards, a public grant-recipient databas... | 5 | |
| strong | Kavli has strong foundation-level denominators. FY2024 ProPublica/IRS data report revenue $31,441,928, expens... | Numerator evidence includes Kavli Institutes, Kavli Prize recognition, named 2024 prize laureates, four scien... | 4 | |
| high | ATAI provides program-specific denominators: one funding announcement awarded $581,609 for three randomized e... | Outputs include randomized evaluations, pilots, proposal-development grants, evidence on agricultural transfo... | 4 | |
| high | ProPublica/IRS FY2024 Form 990 data show revenue of $272,058,206, expenses of $270,683,072, net assets of $20... | Allen Institute's impact page says its open-science model freely shares datasets, tools, models, and discover... | 2 | |
| high | The FY2024 audited financial statement gives a strong denominator: operating expenses were about $98.55M, res... | ALS Association reports more than 100 active grants, research spanning genes, biomarkers, treatments, clinica... | 3 | |
| high | ADA's public FY2024 Form 990 reports total revenue of $152,241,578 and total program-service expenses of $105... | The mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and improve lives for people affected by diabetes. The 2024 Form... | 3 | |
| high | AHA's 2024-25 annual report reports total expenses of $1.273B and total net assets of $1.428B. Within expense... | AHA's research page reports $6.1B invested in scientific research since 1949, more than 51,850 funded project... | 3 | |
| high | The American Lung Association FY2025 public Form 990 reports total functional expenses of $116,892,326. The r... | ALA states that its Research Institute funds high-impact, lifesaving research addressing critical lung-health... | 1 | |
| high | Arcadia publishes grant-level data rather than a U.S. Form 990-style foundation filing. Its official grants-a... | Arcadia's grantmaking focuses on protecting endangered nature, recording endangered culture, and promoting op... | 3 | |
| high | BBRF gives unusually good denominator evidence: more than $476M awarded since 1987 through more than 6,886 gr... | Outputs include global mental-health research grants in 30+ countries, Scientific Council review, support acr... | 5 | |
| high | The 2024 annual report provides useful denominators: 54 education grants totaling $2.34M in 2024, multiple th... | Outputs include early-career and prize fellowships, observational cosmology, astrophysics, geophysics, evolut... | 4 | |
| high | The clearest denominator is program-level: CS-CASH pilot projects are up to $20,000 over 18 months, and the c... | The research page reports 77 pilot projects since 2011, $22.19M in additional funding, and 1550% ROI from sub... | 3 | |
| high | HRZZ provides useful program denominators: 2025 Research Projects, Installation Research Projects, and Young... | Outputs include public calls, electronic application/monitoring/implementation, a funded-project database wit... | 5 | |
| high | Czech Statistical Office government R&D budget statistics report CZK 40.0B spent on R&D from the government b... | As a national research funder, the appropriate numerator is grant-linked scientific output: funded projects,... | 1 | |
| high | DCAcademy has strong denominator evidence: DKK150M from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and DKK30M from the Danis... | Outputs include a nationwide cardiovascular research academy, more than 100 PhD, postdoc, travelling, and vis... | 4 | |
| high | The VA FY2024 Budget in Brief gives a research-specific denominator: the Medical and Prosthetic Research disc... | VA describes the FY2024 research mission as supporting studies on traumatic brain injury, toxic exposure, dis... | 2 | |
| high | The benchmark name most likely refers to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. ProPublica/IRS FY2024 Form 990... | Doris Duke supports arts and culture, nature, and health and well-being, including medical research and field... | 4 | |
| high | Inasmuch/EEJF journalism grantmaking gives strong denominators: 280 grants totaling $18.2M to 79 newsrooms in... | Outputs include nonprofit and investigative newsroom support, journalism support organizations, data-based jo... | 4 | |
| high | Experiment has both platform and nonprofit-denominator evidence. The Experiment Foundation's FY2024 ProPublic... | The Experiment Foundation reports 300+ funded projects and more than $2.2M in project funding, plus 187% year... | 3 | |
| high | FLI's finances page reports about $17M in 2024 expenditures, with 49% grants to other organizations, 18% pers... | Outputs include AI safety and existential-risk grants, PhD/postdoctoral fellowships, AI policy research and a... | 5 | |
| high | ProPublica/IRS FY2024 Form 990-PF data show revenue of $60,044,121, expenses of $193,060,215, net assets of $... | The official Science program funds basic research and supporting activities in astronomy and cosmology, funda... | 3 | |
| high | HHMI publishes audited financial statements. FY2024 total functional expenses were $1,054,050K, with $916,466... | HHMI has strong outcome numerator evidence for biomedical science. Its Nobel-laureates page lists HHMI-suppor... | 2 | |
| high | HFSP exposes strong grant denominators: 2024 research grants went to 108 pioneering life scientists from 23 n... | Outputs include frontier basic life-science grants, high-risk and interdisciplinary international collaborati... | 4 | |
| high | MacArthur provides multiple denominator sources. Its investments page reports total assets of $9.2B as of Dec... | MacArthur's numerator is broad and includes climate solutions, criminal justice, nuclear-risk reduction, jour... | 4 | |
| high | Merck's 2024 annual-report/10-K evidence provides a corporate R&D denominator: R&D expense was about $17.94B... | Outputs include a broad clinical pipeline across oncology, vaccines, infectious disease, cardiometabolic/resp... | 4 | |
| high | The official FY2024 NIAMS funding-plan page reports an FY2024 enacted level of $685,465,000. The congressiona... | Outputs include research on causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis, musculoskeletal, and skin disease... | 5 | |
| high | Official evidence gives strong capital-mobilization denominators: $533M in philanthropic capital catalyzed ac... | Outputs include thesis-driven philanthropic funds, AI for Math, AI and Education, ARC for catastrophic climat... | 5 | |
| high | Rockefeller's official impact-report evidence describes a five-year $1B strategy, grantmaking and program-rel... | Outputs include grants, partnerships, program-related investments, Food is Medicine, Good Food Purchasing, en... | 4 | |
| high | This row substantially duplicates the Schmidt Sciences row in batch 002. The same public denominator is the E... | Schmidt Futures legacy and Schmidt Sciences support scientific talent, unconventional research, AI, advanced... | 3 | |
| high | The closest public denominator is the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, whose FY2024 Form... | Schmidt Sciences supports AI and advanced computing, astrophysics and space, biosciences, climate, and scienc... | 4 | |
| high | ProPublica/IRS data for the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation report FY2023 revenue of $5,858,315, expenses of $... | The official research-grants page states the foundation's mission is to advance basic science in service to h... | 3 | |
| high | ProPublica/IRS FY2024 Form 990-PF data show revenue of $171,400,960, expenses of $364,993,487, net assets of... | The 2024 annual report states that the foundation supported programs advancing research in mathematics and th... | 2 | |
| high | Wellcome's major-initiative page gives a strong program denominator: since 2020 Wellcome invested $635M into... | Outputs include 15 programs in 30 countries, a network of 170+ organizations across 6 continents representing... | 4 | |
| high | Wellcome's annual-report page gives a current large-scale denominator: in 2024/25, charitable expenditure was... | The annual-report highlights include an oral-antibiotic plague trial in Madagascar, the GRAM-ADI antimicrobia... | 2 | |
| high | WSIB gives a strong program denominator: the 2025 Research and Grants competition planned up to CAD2M in fund... | Outputs include 51 annual competition grants, 7 systematic reviews, 1 case study, 40 investigators, 36 instit... | 5 | |
| moderate | 711 HPW has formal Air Force research and technology opportunity mechanisms, including a Multiple-Authority A... | Outputs include human effectiveness R&D, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine work, Airman Biosciences, biotechn... | 4 | |
| moderate | ARIA's Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 report comprehensive net expenditure of GBP 30.725M for the year en... | ARIA is designed as a high-risk/high-reward research agency. For 2024-25, numerator evidence should focus on... | 1 | |
| moderate | Public budget/annual-summary pages exist for the hospital, but a clean English, machine-readable research-spe... | Official evidence reports national research platforms, state/national clinical and engineering research cente... | 4 | |
| moderate | Sloan has strong grantmaking infrastructure and public tax/annual-report data should provide annual denominat... | Outputs include original research and education in STEM and economics, basic science at the frontier of knowl... | 4 | |
| moderate | Ames is a government-owned, contractor-operated DOE national laboratory, not a grantmaking foundation. DOE's... | Ames' appropriate numerator is laboratory research output in critical materials, chemistry, energy resources,... | 3 | |
| moderate | APHL has public nonprofit financial filings and program evidence, but the prior manual evidence did not captu... | Outputs include a network of 130+ member laboratories, 50 corporate partners, 1,600 individuals, public-healt... | 4 | |
| moderate | The ministry exposes program-level funding evidence rather than a single research-grant denominator. The clea... | Outputs include hospital funding, rural physician support, public health service, infection control, preventi... | 3 | |
| moderate | CIBER-BBN exposes strong network and call evidence, but this manual pass did not isolate a clean annual CIBER... | Outputs include 45 selected research groups, bioengineering and medical imaging, biomaterials and advanced th... | 4 | |
| moderate | The ETH Board officially allocates federal funds to ETH Zurich, EPFL, PSI, WSL, Empa, and Eawag based on inst... | Outputs include about 6,000 Master's/PhD graduates annually, around 60 startups and many discoveries each yea... | 4 | |
| moderate | Official Broad evidence gives historical scale rather than current annual grantmaking: more than $4B in phila... | Outputs include creation/support of the Broad Institute, Broad Stem Cell Centers, major education and arts in... | 5 | |
| moderate | Official successor-ministry evidence gives a strong program-level denominator for the Climate and Energy Fund... | Outputs include RTI support from idea generation through implementation, innovation vouchers, climate-neutral... | 3 | |
| moderate | CCCEP was established in 2008 with ESRC funding and hosted jointly by University of Leeds and LSE, but the pr... | Outputs include climate economics and policy research, low-carbon and climate-resilient cities, sustainable i... | 4 | |
| moderate | Official Generalitat pages document research and innovation subsidy programs including Santiago Grisolia, Pro... | Outputs include university/science/research responsibilities, technological innovation, doctoral researcher h... | 4 | |
| moderate | The 2024 audited financial statements provide a usable denominator: 2024 grant awards of about $7.99M, total... | Dana reports more than $23M to 148 projects through Dana Education, Dana Frontiers, and Dana NextGen, with a... | 3 | |
| moderate | IRS/ProPublica data give a usable FY2024 organizational denominator: revenue $1,075,335, expenses $790,584, n... | UC San Diego reports that a DMT Quest gift supports DMT-related research, including non-invasive endogenous D... | 4 | |
| moderate | The official contractual-research page states that the Belgian FPS annually finances scientific research arou... | Outputs include contractual research, food safety, animal/plant health, One Health policy, health-care organi... | 4 | |
| moderate | Foresight's official 2024 Form 990 gives strong denominators: total revenue $9,356,634, total expenses $3,749... | The 2024 filing links expenses to outputs including year-long strategy groups, two flagship events, four tech... | 3 | |
| moderate | Google.org is corporate philanthropy rather than a standalone private foundation with a simple public Form 99... | Numerator evidence is strong at the program level: AI skills/training, scientific research awards, global cri... | 3 | |
| moderate | ITHS is funded through NIH/NCATS CTSA support. ITHS states it is one of more than 60 CTSA sites and is suppor... | ITHS says it is dedicated to speeding science to clinical practice across the WWAMI region and beyond, and th... | 4 | |
| moderate | Knight has formal foundation financial filings and program grant evidence. For the prior manual evidence, the... | Outputs include technology-and-democracy research centers and projects at Carnegie Mellon, GW, NYU, UNC, Univ... | 4 | |
| moderate | The lab exposes partial denominator proxies rather than a total budget: about 20 ANR projects per year, 25-30... | Outputs include 213 publications in 2021, 7 themes, 3 sites, 30-40 PhD students/postdocs, Earth/planetary sci... | 3 | |
| moderate | Lifespan.io/LEAF now sits in the Lifespan Research Institute reporting context after the LEAF/SENS merger. Th... | The numerator is advocacy, science communication, crowdfunding/field-building, and longevity research support... | 2 | |
| moderate | Manual review found strong clinical-research volume evidence but not a clean public research-spend denominato... | Outputs include 2,789 active clinical research projects in 2023/24, one of Canada's largest research-intensiv... | 4 | |
| moderate | MAPS has strong nonprofit denominator evidence. FY2024 ProPublica/IRS data report revenue $7,480,253, expense... | Impact numerator evidence includes MDMA-assisted therapy research, clinical trials, public/professional educa... | 3 | |
| moderate | ProPublica/IRS data give recent organizational denominators, but the year-to-year series is volatile because... | Methuselah's own program description emphasizes healthy lifespan extension, investment-oriented support throu... | 2 | |
| moderate | Official pages document university financing from the state budget and VEGA research project subsidy calls, b... | Outputs include national science and technology policy, legal and financial instruments, Slovak Academy of Sc... | 4 | |
| moderate | NCCHD is a Japanese national center with hospital, research institute, and clinical research/development func... | Outputs include hospital, research institute, Center for Clinical Research and Development, drug information... | 5 | |
| moderate | NIBIOHN is a Japanese national R&D organization with public institutional budgets likely available, but the p... | Outputs include biomedical innovation, health and nutrition research, drug discovery, priority disease resear... | 5 | |
| moderate | NIFTEM is an Indian institute of national importance under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, not pr... | The numerator should be institutional research/education output in food technology, entrepreneurship, food pr... | 3 | |
| moderate | The prior manual evidence maps this row to Japan's JNIOSH/Johas occupational safety and health research insti... | Outputs include research for Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare policy planning, lethal accident preventi... | 4 | |
| moderate | Manual review found extensive clinical-trial and translational infrastructure evidence but no clean annual re... | Outputs include Singapore's only public cancer centre treating paediatric and adult cancers in one facility,... | 4 | |
| moderate | PSFC has strong recent nonprofit denominators: FY2024 ProPublica/IRS data report revenue $3,836,963, expenses... | PSFC describes itself as a funder collaborative supporting leaders and organizations advancing access to psyc... | 4 | |
| moderate | ResearchHub exposes grant/RFP-level denominators rather than a full organizational budget. The funding workfl... | ResearchHub's numerator evidence is mostly process and early-output evidence: preregistered proposals, open p... | 4 | |
| moderate | Recent Form 990/ProPublica evidence gives annual nonprofit denominators, including revenue, expenses, assets,... | Outputs include climate accountability campaigns, democracy and power learning communities, polluter-pay and... | 4 | |
| moderate | Lifespan Research Institute/SENS has recent IRS denominator evidence: FY2024 ProPublica/IRS data report reven... | The official site states LRI conducts targeted scientific research to accelerate therapies addressing root ca... | 3 | |
| moderate | A consolidated public annual-spend denominator was not found in the reviewed official pages, but Templeton Wo... | The official mission frames TWCF as catalyzing discovery and accelerating progress in the spiritual search fo... | 2 | |
| moderate | Xiaomi's 2024 annual report gives several program denominators: cumulative foundation donations of RMB650M by... | Outputs include 141 funded students in 2024, 111 funded research projects by the end of 2024, innovation fund... | 2 | |
| exploratory | Beckley publishes annual reports and accounts, but the reviewed 2022-2023 PDF provides percentage distributio... | Numerator evidence includes research protocols and agreements for clinical, neuroimaging, and molecular psych... | 2 | |
| exploratory | CoFo's Science of Awakening RFP gives a clean program denominator: up to $100,000 total per award, award dura... | Expected outputs include constructs, validated measures, protocols, preregistered analyses, datasets/tools, m... | 2 | |
| low | The prior evidence includes a 2023 financial report for the scientific research foundation and public-benefit... | Outputs include scientific council review of subsidy applications, academic workplace and university partners... | 3 | |
| low | Manual review found grant-management and completed-project evidence but no clean annual research-spend denomi... | Outputs include research management, research grants, a Centre for Innovation, ethics committees, research co... | 4 | |
| low | Altos is a private biotechnology company rather than a public grantmaker, so annual spend is not publicly vis... | The stated numerator is translational and long-horizon: Altos' mission is to restore cell health and resilien... | 3 | |
| low | Manual review found professional society, certification, awards, and foundation-support evidence but no mater... | Outputs include board certification, workshops, seminars, university accreditation participation, publication... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review found no reliable budget, grant total, or annual operating-spend denominator. Evidence is mainl... | Outputs include science, technology, innovation, and capacity-building initiatives; policy advice; internatio... | 3 | |
| low | AIT has strong research, center, and applied-translation evidence but no annual research-spend or grantmaking... | Outputs include research on sustainability, technology development/application, environmental conservation, p... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review found strong research, compute, fellowship, and policy-output evidence, but no clean public ann... | Outputs include AI safety research, foundational benchmarks and methods, top-ML-conference publications, data... | 4 | |
| low | CSET has strong output evidence but no clean public annual operating-cost or grantmaking denominator in the p... | Outputs include more than 80 analyses and dozens of translations in 2024, government and industry briefings,... | 4 | |
| low | The official site confirms private foundation grantmaking and a medical-research program, but the prior manua... | Outputs include grants across Community Services, Education, Jewish Communities, and Medical Research; medica... | 4 | |
| low | This appears to overlap with the separate benchmark entry for The Consciousness Foundation (CoFo). The review... | The numerator is consciousness-research field building: RFPs, funded proposals, workshops, collaborations, an... | 2 | |
| low | ENAP is Brazil's federal school of government, not a philanthropic research funder. The Brazilian federal gov... | ENAP's numerator is public-sector capacity and knowledge output: training, career formation, postgraduate and... | 3 | |
| low | This is a Hessian state ministry, founded/reorganized in 2024, not a research grantmaker. Official pages show... | Potential numerator evidence is policy/program delivery: care participation programs, health promotion, addic... | 3 | |
| low | Manual review found no grantmaking or annual budget denominator. CIHAM is a CNRS-linked UMR research laborato... | Outputs include medieval Christian and Muslim worlds research, research axes, projects, publications, HAL dep... | 3 | |
| low | Manual review found strong cohort and research-output evidence but no annual research-spend or grantmaking de... | Outputs include the Reykjavik Study started in 1967, AGES-Reykjavik with 5,764 recruited participants, the Re... | 4 | |
| low | InVS is a former French public-health surveillance agency now absorbed into Sante publique France. The prior... | Outputs include occupational-risk surveillance, cohorts, job-exposure matrices, national occupational health... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review did not capture a clean annual expense or award-payout denominator. Lasker is primarily an awar... | Outputs include Lasker Awards since 1945, recognition of fundamental biological discoveries and clinical adva... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review confirmed grant programs and portfolio examples but did not find a full public annual grant bud... | Outputs include funding healthy-longevity research, geroscience, chronic and age-related disease prevention,... | 3 | |
| low | Manual review found strong activity evidence but no clean public consolidated annual budget or grant-spend de... | Outputs include supported research projects, HAL-linked publications/interventions, 53 associated social-scie... | 4 | |
| low | The Ontario expenditure-estimates page provides a public budget denominator for ministry operating and capita... | Outputs include child protection, special-needs and autism supports, Indigenous children/youth services, yout... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review found strong institutional research evidence but no grantmaking or annual research-spend denomi... | Outputs include more than 19,000 students, 1,200+ faculty, 20 academies, six special research institutes, doc... | 4 | |
| low | The Danish Health Authority/National Board of Health is an evidence-to-policy authority. It explicitly states... | Outputs include national responsibility for health issues, uniform high-quality healthcare services, health e... | 4 | |
| low | As a Swedish national authority, the agency should have public budget appropriations, but the prior manual ev... | Outputs include national guidelines based on research and experience, systematic review methods, expert group... | 4 | |
| low | NIPCCD/SPNIWCD is an autonomous institute under India's Ministry of Women and Child Development with training... | Outputs include apex ICDS functionary training, headquarters and five regional centers, women and child devel... | 4 | |
| low | Manual review found no clean current annual budget or grant-spend denominator on the public INES pages. The p... | Outputs include PhD/MSc training, publications, open-source tools, patents, international-standard software-e... | 4 | |
| low | Norn publishes program structure and qualitative impact but not a complete annual budget or audited grant led... | Norn's official impact page says Talent Bridge supports global researchers in aging science with project fund... | 3 | |
| low | STEPI is a Korean science, technology, and innovation policy research institute. The prior manual evidence do... | Outputs include STEPI reports on transformative innovation policy, Global South innovation partnerships, crit... | 4 |