Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: University of Rochester
    amount: $50,000
    city: Rochester, NY
    year: 2024

    To investigate the historical formation and development of glaciology as a scientific discipline

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Stewart Weaver

    To investigate the historical formation and development of glaciology as a scientific discipline

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $200,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2024

    To support an invitation-only workshop about harnessing AI to create a comprehensive platform of verified and accessible knowledge on the web

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Special Initiatives
    • Investigator Monica Lam

    To support an invitation-only workshop about harnessing AI to create a comprehensive platform of verified and accessible knowledge on the web

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  • grantee: Vanderbilt University
    amount: $30,000
    city: Nashville, TN
    year: 2024

    To provide mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities for LGBTQ+ early-career economists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Christopher Carpenter

    To provide mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities for LGBTQ+ early-career economists

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  • grantee: The Aspen Institute
    amount: $25,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To partially support a meeting to explore the second-order effects of artificial intelligence technologies

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Vivian Schiller

    To partially support a meeting to explore the second-order effects of artificial intelligence technologies

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  • grantee: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    amount: $30,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To support the 2024 Workshop on Information, Selection, and Evolution

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Robert Hazen

    To support the 2024 Workshop on Information, Selection, and Evolution

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  • grantee: University of Pittsburgh
    amount: $246,838
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2024

    To generate novel and practical insights for educational leaders on the potential and structures for faculty cluster hiring toward racial equity in STEM and beyond

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Heather McCambly

    To generate novel and practical insights for educational leaders on the potential and structures for faculty cluster hiring toward racial equity in STEM and beyond

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  • grantee: Amalgamated Foundation
    amount: $50,000
    city: DC, WA
    year: 2024

    To convene field leaders on how to elevate higher education teaching excellence at scale, with a focus on institutional, systems, and field-level change

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Jada Perez

    To convene field leaders on how to elevate higher education teaching excellence at scale, with a focus on institutional, systems, and field-level change

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  • grantee: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
    amount: $10,000
    city: Santa Rosa, CA
    year: 2024

    To support a Native American delegation from the United States that will deliver an invited keynote at the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME)

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Donna Fernandez

    To support a Native American delegation from the United States that will deliver an invited keynote at the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME)

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $686,835
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support an annual feature film production grant over three years to enable film students to shoot a first feature film about science and technology

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Michael Burke

    This grant supports an annual $150,000 First Feature Production Award at New York University Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) to provide students the opportunity to produce and release their first full-length feature film that dramatizes scientific and technological themes or characters. Students submit one-page pitches for science films annually. A dozen quarter finalists are selected to write step-by-step breakdowns of their films, and from this group, six semi-finalists are chosen to meet with scientists and film faculty to improve the science content, narrative, and design of their films, before submitting revised treatments. In the finalist stage, three students are selected and awarded $5,000 each to develop their treatments into full-scale feature screenplays. Finally, one winner is selected and receives a $150,000 production award to produce their first feature film.

    To support an annual feature film production grant over three years to enable film students to shoot a first feature film about science and technology

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  • grantee: Film Independent, Inc.
    amount: $450,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2024

    To support the triennial Sloan Film Summit, a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, networking opportunities, and community building for Sloan film grantees

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Josh Welsh

    This grant supports Film Independent (FIND) to host the 2025 Sloan Film Summit, a convening of all Alfred P. Sloan Foundation film and media-related grantees held every three years, from film schools to film festivals and from film development and film distribution partners to theater, gaming, and social media partners. At the summit, FIND will highlight 25 years of the Sloan Foundation’s film program, looking back at where the program started and what has changed in the science and film landscape, as well as the media and broader culture. In addition to anticipated attendance by 200 members of the Sloan film community—including all the winning screenwriters, filmmakers, episodic writers, gamers, and animators from the past three years—FIND will invite members of the general public to participate in several public-facing events, adding an estimated 1000 attendees.  Funded activities include introductions and updates from Sloan award recipients; case studies of successful collaborations between filmmakers and scientists; networking opportunities that connect filmmakers with scientists, agents, casting directors, distributors, film festivals, production companies, entrepreneurs, and executives; live reading of excerpts from Sloan-winning screenplays; panels that will feature scientists expounding on underappreciated scientific stories and discoveries, and keynote addresses.

    To support the triennial Sloan Film Summit, a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, networking opportunities, and community building for Sloan film grantees

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