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 2019 online annual report here: https://annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2019/ read more