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Recent and Past Grantees

Curious about The Leakey Foundation’s funded research projects and scholarship recipients? Search our grants database to learn more about the human origins research, scholarships, and emergency grants made possible by our generous supporters.

Although we have been awarding grants since 1968, this searchable database only goes back to 2012, giving you more than a decade of information. You can search by program, recipient PhD status, and keywords such as topics, species, and countries. You can also search for specific dates and time periods between 2012 and today!

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Justin Pargeter, New York University

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (May 2025)

Application for funding to support participation of four students from Africa in paleoarchaeological fieldwork

Nadine Ruppert, Malaysian Primatological Society

Primate Research Fund (May 2025)

Macaca Nemestrina Project, Segari

Stacy Lindshield, Purdue University

Primate Research Fund (May 2025)

bridge funding for the Assirik Chimpanzee Research Site, Senegal

Abigail McClain, George Washington University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Social loss and the behavior and physiology of wild chimpanzees

Agazi Negash, Addis Ababa University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Obsidian and the archeology of the Middle Stone Age in Ethiopia

Aggrey Omuyangu, University of Memphis

Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2024)

Frank Brown African Scholarship Fund

Audrey Arner, Vanderbilt University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Understanding how rapid environmental change impacts human evolution and adaptation

Bacara Spruit, University of the Witwatersrand

Research Grants (December 2024)

Unravelling human subsistence strategies at Boomplaas Cave during the LGM to LGIT

Baptiste Sadoughi, Arizona State University, Center for Evolution and Medicine

Research Grants (December 2024)

Social determinants of aging at the physiological and molecular levels in rhesus macaques

Charles Musiba, Saint Augustine University of Tanzania

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

Request for Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship funds to support five Tanzanian students

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

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