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About the foundation.
Francon Foundation is a 501(c)(3) institution headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 2023 by physicist and investor Matthew Chase Levy, the Foundation makes focused grants across three areas — combating hate, empowering future leaders, and energy literacy and supporting science. It keeps a deliberately small portfolio of partners, among them schools, hospitals, research centers, and civic institutions, and stays with them.
Francon Foundation is a 501(c)(3) grantmaker in Oakland, California, supporting work that combats hate, empowers future leaders, and advances science.
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The founder.
Matthew Chase Levy · Founder & Board Chair
Matthew Chase Levy is a physicist and investor who founded Francon Foundation in 2023.
Trained as a fusion physicist, he was a Royal Society Newton International Fellow and is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He founded AE Blue Capital, an advanced-energy investment firm, and serves as a trustee of The Washington Institute. He founded Francon to put a focused, long-horizon philanthropy on a durable footing — beginning with a public elementary school a few miles from home. Please credit the photo "Courtesy of Francon Foundation."
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