Philanthropic Foundations
Find What Works. Fund What Matters.
Philanthropic foundations drive bold visions, MIT Solve delivers the solutions to match. With a global pipeline of vetted, tech-powered innovations built for impact—work with us to discover what's working, and what's next.
Whether you co-design a challenge tailored to your mission, sponsor a prize to accelerate breakthrough ideas, or tap into our data and insights to strengthen your grantmaking, we're here to turn big goals into measurable progress.
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Hear from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Philanthropic Foundation Offerings
Open Innovation Challenge Design & Management
Work with Solve to design and run a bespoke innovation competition that delivers high-potential, tech-driven solutions tailored to your goals. We handle everything—from design to grantee selection—plus wraparound support to help winning solutions scale their impact. Explore how foundations are already driving change through custom challenges.
Prize Sponsorship
Team up with Solve and a community of mission-aligned funders to back the bold ideas sourced each year across our areas of impact: Climate, Health, Learning, Economic Prosperity, and Indigenous Communities. By sponsoring a prize for our Global Challenges, your foundation supports high-potential, vetted solutions and joins a powerful network of philanthropic leaders. We connect the dots, so you can fund what works.
Monitoring & Evaluation Advisory
Tap into Solve’s expertise to build a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approach that tracks progress, uncovers insights, and tells a compelling story of impact for your foundation. Strengthen how you learn from your work — and how the world learns from you.
Grantee Support Programming
Solve’s world-class innovator support program equips grantees with the leadership skills, technical expertise, and network they need to scale their solutions effectively. Whether backing new innovators sourced through a custom challenge or your foundation’s current grantees, we give them the wraparound support to go further, together.
Trusted by Leading Foundations
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BACKING BOLD IDEAS TOGETHER
What does working with Solve look like? Scroll through our portfolio of Foundation-sponsored custom challenges to see the solutions we’ve sourced together.
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600+innovators selected through 95+ Solve challenges
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490innovators supported through Solve’s support program
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330M+lives reached by Solver teams around the world
Partner with Solve
Work with Solve to fund the future.
By working with Solve, foundations identify and support bold, tech-driven solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. You’ll connect with a global network of philanthropic and cross-sector partners, access curated grantee pipelines, and strengthen your impact strategy through collaboration, learning, and shared insight.
Let’s explore how Solve can help advance your mission.