A private foundation supporting the people, places, and ideas working to keep our climate and water systems resilient for the generations who follow.
The question outlived the company.
For decades, I built companies around a single question: can better information make the distribution of water more just?
But a question like that is never finished. When our startup was acquired in 2024, we made sure the public-benefit work continued.
The AO Legacy Foundation was created to back the people, places, and ideas keeping our water and climate systems resilient for the generations who follow.
We help innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers build a water- and climate-resilient future.
Through grants, scholarships, education, outreach, and research, the AO Legacy Foundation backs the people creating the solutions, technologies, and knowledge that water and climate resilience will require, and the next generation of leaders who will carry the work forward.
If you're an innovator, researcher, or student whose work could help build a more resilient future, we'd welcome hearing from you. And if you'd like to help fund the work, your support goes directly toward it.
The AO Legacy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation based in Denver, Colorado. See our programs and the formal details →