The Simons Foundation's mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.
Co-founded in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic or discovery-driven scientific research undertaken in the pursuit of understanding the phenomena of our world.
The Simons Foundation's support of science takes two forms: We support research by making grants to individual investigators and their projects through academic institutions, and, with the launch of the Flatiron Institute in 2016, we now conduct scientific research in-house, supporting teams of top computational scientists.
To learn more about our initiatives please visit our about page here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/about
You may access our 2017 online annual report here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/report2017/stories/