The Simons Foundation’s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.

Cofounded in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic — or discoverydriven — 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 inhouse, supporting teams of top computational scientists.