Promys Foundation

“The foundation's officers review and approve the form 990 before submission.”

“Annually, each trustee is expected to report conflict of interests to the board of trustees.”

“The foundation makes its form 1023, form 990 and its organizational documents available for public inspection upon request and via the massachusetts public charity website.”

“1.breakout fellowships term endowment (donor restricted contributions) - terence tao, richard taylor, and jacob lurie, recipients of the inaugural breakthrough prizes in mathematics, very generously created the breakout fellowship to promys. The breakout fellowship is a full scholarship to promys for a mathematically talented student who might not otherwise be able to attend. With the goal of creating a fully funded breakout fellowship to promys endowment, the promys alum community was invited in december 2014 to match the very generous donation of the breakthrough mathematicians. Thanks to the generosity and vision of all the donors, this endowment goal was reached in march 2015. The future of the breakout fellowships to promys is now assured: there will be a breakout fellow in every promys cohort. The promys foundation announced that the 4rd breakout fellowship to promys was awarded to william cowen-breen of massachusetts, in may 2018. 2. Partial support (stipend, room and board) for counselors at promys 2018. There is one undergraduate counselor for every 3 or 4 students. Counselors grade the work of their assigned students on the daily number theory problem sets, supervise the students' research projects, act as mathematical guides and role models, attend advanced seminars, and engage in their own mathematical research which they share with the whole promys community. The talented multi-tiered mathematical community is a distinguishing feature of promys. In addition, funding supported honoraria for the nine research mentors who supported research projects for returning students at promys 2018. 3. The tara and jasubhai mehta fellowships to promys are for mathematically talented low-income students in india and are funded by nicholas nash, the indira foundation and morph.org, the mehta fellowship sponsors. Each mehta fellowship covers all tuition and room and board costs for attending the six weeks of promys at boston university. The fellowships also cover travel and the cost of any required books. Promys was delighted to welcome twelve mehta fellows in 2018: five first-year fellows, three returning fellows, and four counselors. 4. Promys for teachers (pft): there were 19 teachers at promys for teachers 2018. Supporting their collaborative work in number theory, seminars and research were 12 teacher counselors plus faculty including the pft research director. During the school year, promys teachers are invited to attend five full-day workshops offered jointly by education development center (edc) in waltham and boston university's department of mathematics. These seminars are designed to help teachers "unpack" the pedagogical approaches used in promys to enrich the mathematical experience in their own classrooms. Another important goal of the workshops is to establish an ongoing network of teachers, mathematics educators, and research mathematicians. Typical agenda items include: 1) teacher volunteers share experiences, activities, and student work from their classrooms, 2) the whole group works together on mathematics inspired by topics in the secondary curriculum, and 3) teachers collaboratively plan lessons, working in the style of japanese lesson study groups. 5. Thanks to the generosity and vision of a family foundation, the yongren fellowships to promys were established in 2017 to enable mathematically talented low-income students in china to participate in promys at no cost to their families. There were two yongren fellows at promys in 2018: zhiyuan zhou from guangzhou was the 2018 yongren fellow and zehong zong (the 2017 yongren fellow from zhengzhou) was awarded a returning yongren fellowship.”