With a mission of providing far-reaching benefits to humanity, the W.M. Keck Foundation is not only engaged in grantmaking that makes possible the cutting-edge research it funds today, it is, more importantly, investing in the future ... and in the exponential impact that the research and its findings will have tomorrow. For more than 50 years, the Foundation has supported the highest levels of academic inquiry and discovery conducted by the finest researchers at the most innovative institutions in the United States. We have seen the real-world impact of these brilliant, though untested, ideas that have now come to fruition, and we are pleased to share those stories here. Mycenae Discoveries A grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation has helped fund the Dickinson College Excavation Project, which has discovered an ancient town near Mycenae, Greece. Westmont Telescope Funded in part by a $300,000 grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation in 2004, Westmont's Keck Telescope has confirmed the existence of Supernova 2008an. Project Neptune In 2001, the W.M. Keck Foundation provided $5 million to the University of Washington for a five-year experiment to explore the mysteries of underwater plate tectonics. Get Notified Sign up to receive an email notification when we add new Impact stories. Notify me Tell Your Story If you have received a W.M. Keck Foundation grant in the past and have an Impact Story you would like to share, send us a few images and a summary of 500 words or less with your contact information to: impact@wmkeck.org