The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce the following 84 grants across its six funding areas. These projects became active in the first half of 2025.
Character Virtue Development
| Start Year | ID | Title | Project Leader(s) | Grantee(s) | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63639 | Transforming Healthcare through the Power of Love: Expanding and Spreading the ‘Living and Leading with Love’ Framework | Peter Pronovost, Patrick Runnels |
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center | $2,313,013 |
| 2025 | 63636 | Cultivating and Measuring Civil Discourse Among Undergraduates | Rajiv Vinnakota, Beverly Sanford |
Institute for Citizens & Scholars | $2,600,000 |
| 2025 | 63624 | Youth hope and flourishing: A holistic perspective in a context of systemic adversity | Kendra Thomas, Samantha Walker |
Hope College | $1,022,559 |
| 2025 | 63596 | The Purpose Commons: Advancing the Science of Purpose to Catalyze Youth Well-Being | Anthony Burrow, TeRay Esquibel |
Hopelab Foundation, Inc. | $3,000,000 |
| 2025 | 63646 | VirtueLEAD: A Character-Centered Approach for Young African Leaders | Stella Nderitu, Brenda Chelagat |
Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa | $259,408 |
| 2025 | 63617 | Wisdom at Work. Revitalizing Formative School Leadership | Karen Bohlin | Practical Wisdom Project at Abigail Adams Institute | $1,634,762 |
| 2025 | 63578 | Enhancing Character Virtues with AI Conversational Agents: Beyond Short-Term Subjective Well-Being | Louis Tay | Purdue University | $3,591,675 |
| 2025 | 63563 | Understanding the development of moral concern | Julia Marshall | Brown University | $1,618,218 |
| 2025 | 63654 | Training and Treatment Integration Research for Virtue and Flourishing in Mental Healthcare: A Team Science Project | Steven Sandage, Jesse Owen |
Boston University | $5,220,961 |
| 2025 | 63314 | Character Matters: Values and Resilience in the Digital Age | Kate Blocker, Kris Perry |
Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development | $259,500 |
| 2025 | 63303 | E Tu Tangata (Stand Together) Aotearoa New Zealand: Promoting youth character by shifting a culture of criticism | Nicola Geldard, Myron Friesen |
E Tu Tangata Charitable Trust | $253,633 |
| 2025 | 63609 | Moral virtues and human flourishing in the age of AI | Anna Leshinskaya | University of California, Irvine | $257,797 |
| 2025 | 63633 | Bridges of Virtue: How Islam, the Abrahamic Faiths, and Philosophy Illuminate Love | Daniel Tutt, Alex Kronemer |
Unity Productions Foundation | $399,956 |
| 2025 | 63246 | Advancing Humility in International Peacemaking and Peacekeeping | Emily Paddon Rhoads | Swarthmore College | $259,983 |
Individual Freedom & Free Markets
| Start Year | ID | Title | Project Leader(s) | Grantee(s) | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63661 | A New Agenda for Liberalisation: Understanding the Barriers to Economic Growth | Tom Clougherty, Kristian Niemietz |
Institute of Economic Affairs | $1,027,729 |
| 2025 | 63658 | The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research Consortium | Geoffrey Sayre-McCord | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $3,196,667 |
| 2025 | 63602 | PPE in the Gardens of Liberty: The Hesperidean Approach | Gabriel Calzada, William Ogilvie Vega de Seoane |
Universidad de las Hespérides | $1,701,413 |
| 2025 | 63566 | Mission in Business and Meaning in Life | Christopher Freiman, David Schmidtz |
West Virginia University | $2,497,140 |
| 2025 | 63635 | Civics Foundations: Transforming Graduate Education for Civics and U.S. History Teachers | Thomas Kelly | Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History | $1,699,750 |
| 2025 | 63593 | Economy of Communion Promotion Project: Helping the Poor Achieve Dignity, Freedom, and Financial Security Through Private Enterprise | Andrew Gustafson | Creighton University — Heider College of Business | $1,204,638 |
| 2025 | 63605 | Assessing and Addressing the Politicization of Business | William English | Georgetown University | $3,986,992 |
| 2025 | 63601 | Prison Religion: Advancing Religious Liberty in Correctional Institutions as Exemplars of Pluralism and Institutional Change | Barbara McGraw | Saint Mary’s College of California | $998,341 |
| 2025 | 63615 | Accelerating Classical Liberal Research Across Divides | Jeanne Hoffman | Institute for Humane Studies | $1,500,750 |
| 2025 | 63625 | Building the New Liberty Pipeline | Diogo Costa, Derek D’Angelo |
Foundation for Economic Education | $1,500,000 |
| 2025 | 63641 | Increasing Transparency and Raising Awareness of Regulatory Impacts to Improve Regulatory Outcomes | Roger Nober, Susan Dudley |
The George Washington University | $1,178,000 |
| 2025 | 63382 | Market Economies and Green Ideals | Mark Pennington, Roberto Fumagalli |
King’s College London | $3,123,309 |
| 2025 | 63344 | Liberty, Equality, and Utility: Assessing the trade-offs between individual liberty, well-being, and material equality | Ralf Bader | Université de Fribourg | $1,628,810 |
| 2025 | 63522 | Human Freedom: Emergence and Payoffs | Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov |
Research Institute of Industrial Economics | $402,688 |
| 2025 | 63616 | The Faith and Business Initiative | Jooho Lee, Regan Schaffer |
Pepperdine University | $259,583 |
Life Sciences
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
| Start Year | ID | Title | Project Leader(s) | Grantee(s) | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63531 | Explaining Why: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Token Causality | Samantha Kleinberg | Stevens Institute of Technology | $778,421 |
| 2025 | 63651 | TAMBO: Spearheading Neutrino Astrophysics and Responsible High-Energy Physics | Carlos Argüelles Delgado, Jaco De Swart |
Harvard University | $1,730,107 |
| 2025 | 63683 | WithOut SpaceTime (WOST) | Francesca Vidotto, Flaminia Giacomini |
Centre Pour La Recherche Sur L’espace, Le Temps Et La Physique Quantique | $4,743,749 |
| 2025 | 63667 | Growing a Universe from Quantum Scales: Discovery at the Intersection of Cosmology, Epistemology, and Interactive Visual Media. | Vera Gluscevic, Simeon Bird |
University of Southern California | $3,965,844 |
| 2025 | 63595 | Constraining intra-galactic substructure with ultrafaint dwarfs and its implications for particle dark matter | Peter Graham, Harikrishnan Ramani |
Leland Stanford Junior University | $241,739 |
| 2025 | 63655 | Causality, Observers and Computation: A New Approach to Fundamental Physics and Metamathematics | Carlos Zapata-Carratala, Stephen Wolfram |
Wolfram Institute | $635,567 |
| 2025 | 63599 | Seeding Supermassive Black Holes from the Dark Sector | Hai-Bo Yu | University of California, Riverside | $260,000 |
| 2025 | 63684 | Science Trust Project | Claudia Fracchiolla, Alexandra Lau |
American Physical Society | $1,004,849 |
| 2025 | 63583 | A New Window on Supermassive Black Holes and their Cosmological Roles with Millimetre-Wave Observations | Adam Hincks | University of Toronto | $212,294 |
| 2025 | 63670 | Emergence of Time from Chaos in Operator Algebras | Nima Lashkari, Hong Liu |
Purdue University Department of Physics and Astronomy | $1,528,985 |
| 2025 | 63405 | Nonlinear Quantum Metrology for Fundamental Physics | Rana Adhikari, Lee McCuller |
California Institute of Technology | $260,000 |
| 2025 | 63206 | Quantum measurement, locality, and reality in high energy experiments | Alan Barr, Christopher Timpson |
Chancellor, Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford | $1,132,102 |
| 2025 | 63445 | Black Hole Initiative – Phase 4 | Peter Galison, Sheperd Doeleman |
President and Fellows of Harvard College | $6,899,999 |
Public Engagement
| Start Year | ID | Title | Project Leader(s) | Grantee(s) | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63619 | How God Works Podcast (Seasons 9-12) | David DeSteno | Northeastern University | $1,886,886 |
| 2025 | 63518 | Virtue Science for the Public Good | Elizabeth (Beth) Daley, Margaret (Maggie) Villiger |
The Conversation United States | $259,020 |
| 2025 | 63587 | Rethinking Reality | Tracy Day, Brian Greene |
World Science Foundation | $3,787,552 |
| 2025 | 63614 | In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide | Michael Le Chevallier, Daniel Wasserman-Soler |
The Lumen Christi Institute | $2,098,957 |
| 2025 | 63473 | Kelly Corrigan Wonders | Kelly Corrigan, Tamara Stedman |
PRX Incorporated | $257,487 |
| 2025 | 63533 | God-Coded | Liel Leibovitz | Nextbook Inc | $256,297 |
| 2025 | 63555 | Forming Leaders in Faith and Science Integration for Catholic Secondary Education | Christopher Baglow, Heather Foucault-Camm |
University of Notre Dame du Lac | $1,446,710 |
| 2025 | 63598 | Growing and Segmenting the First Things Audience Through New Digital Media | R. R. Reno | The Institute on Religion and Public Life | $1,761,772 |
| 2025 | 63631 | Reanimating the World: Advancing Latter-day Saint Conversations Around Science and Religion | Bill Turnbull, Zachary Davis |
Faith Matters Foundation | $260,000 |
| 2025 | 63477 | Aspen Philosophy in Society | Samuel Kimbriel | The Aspen Institute Inc | $2,543,978 |
| 2025 | 63481 | Scientists in Synagogues Continuation | Geoffrey Mitelman | CLAL – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership | $409,095 |
| 2025 | 63297 | The Windrider Institute Initiative | John Priddy | Windrider Institute Inc | $1,200,000 |
| 2025 | 63690 | Persuasion Series on Liberal Virtues and Values | Yascha Mounk | Persuasion Institute | $258,859 |
| 2025 | 63572 | Interdisciplinary Thought Leadership on Big Questions: the 2025-2026 Convenings of Trinity Forum Senior Fellows | Cherie Harder | The Trinity Forum | $260,000 |
| 2025 | 63591 | Exploring the Big Questions Through the Conversations with Tyler Podcast | Jeff Holmes | Mercatus Center at George Mason University | $259,977 |
| 2025 | 63537 | Exploring “The Human Condition” with WBUR’s On Point | Margaret Low | Trustees of Boston University | $249,346 |
| 2025 | 63465 | Emory Tibet Science Initiative: Stage Four – Specialization | Lobsang Negi, Arri Eisen |
Emory University | $5,000,000 |
| 2025 | 63311 | With & For Podcast: Spiritual Health and Thriving Together | Pamela King, Jilleen Westbrook |
Fuller Theological Seminary | $258,699 |
Religion, Science, & Society
| Start Year | ID | Title | Project Leader(s) | Grantee(s) | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63627 | Metaphysical Spirituality and the Future of Religion: From the Margins to the Mainstream | Joseph Blankholm, Matthew Harris |
University of California, Santa Barbara | $1,550,082 |
| 2025 | 63597 | The cultivation of spiritual experience among the spiritual but not religious | Dean Zimmerman, Tanya Luhrmann |
Stanford University | $2,464,397 |
| 2025 | 63726 | Celebrating the legacy of Tom McLeish: The Centre for Creation and Natural Philosophy | Simon Oliver, Giles Gasper |
University of Durham | $261,461 |
| 2025 | 63521 | Between Relativism and Reproach: Exploring Value Judgements about Good Human Lives within Theologically Engaged Anthropology | James Lemons | The University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. | $259,255 |
| 2025 | 63621 | The Georgetown-Lancet Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health | Deus Bazira | Georgetown University | $260,000 |
| 2025 | 63603 | De-Centering Europe in the Study of Religious Change | Robert Woodberry, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa |
Baylor University | $2,219,524 |
| 2025 | 63535 | From Despair to Hope: Interdisciplinary Theology in the service of Building Spiritual Capital | Tom Greggs, Jonathan Lewis-Jong |
Center of Theological Inquiry | $4,492,891 |
| 2025 | 63530 | Can Beauty Save the World?: Aesthetic Engagement Among the Spiritual But Not Religious | Brandon Vaidyanathan, Tara Burton |
The Catholic University of America | $3,890,275 |
| 2025 | 63325 | Existential Gratitude and Spirituality | Mara van der Lugt, King-Ho Leung |
University Court of the University of St Andrews | $800,286 |
| 2025 | 63363 | Tapestry of Care: Strengthening Mental Health Provider and Faith Community Partnerships to Bridge Scientific Research and Practice | Dustin Benac, ThD, Rebecca Brune, MPA, MBA |
Baylor University | $1,761,020 |
| 2025 | 63219 | Expanding the Scope of Spiritual Care Research and Training in South African Healthcare | Annemarie Oberholzer | HospiVision | $577,341 |
| 2025 | 63446 | Advancing the Global Reach and Impact of Mental Health Training Programs in Spiritual and Religious Competencies | Joseph Currier | University of South Alabama | $259,982 |
| 2025 | 63357 | New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia | Suzanne Newcombe, Stephen Christopher |
The Open University | $1,587,771 |
| 2025 | 63165 | Advancing Spiritual Care: Spiritual Health in Everyday Clinical Practice | Christina Puchalski, Kathleen Griffith |
George Washington University | $2,549,667 |
To see all of our grants, please visit our grant database.
