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.

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3,419 Grants

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Amount

City

Year

grantee: Columbia University

amount: $441,393

city: New York, NY

year: 2025
To encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology through enhanced research, mentorship, and award opportunities
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Film
- Investigator Trey Ellis
This grant provides three years of support to the Columbia University School of the Arts’ Film Program to encourage young screenwriters and directors to create new work with science and technology themes and characters. Funded activities include two annual Production Awards, three annual Screenwriting Awards, information sessions about science and film, and screenings of Sloan-supported short films at the Columbia University Film Festival. Grant funds also support a mentorship program that competitively selects a short list of screenwriting finalists and provides each candidate with increased faculty feedback and additional research with a science advisor.

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To encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology through enhanced research, mentorship, and award opportunities
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grantee: New York University

amount: $247,127

city: New York City, NY

year: 2025
To support a postdoctoral fellowship on Metascience & AI with a specific interest in the implications of AI use for research synthesis and systematic reviews
- Program Technology
- Initiative AI in Science
- Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
- Investigator David Chalmers
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To support a postdoctoral fellowship on Metascience & AI with a specific interest in the implications of AI use for research synthesis and systematic reviews
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grantee: Association of Independents in Radio

amount: $249,500

city: New York, NY

year: 2025
To support the production and launch of “What’s the Big Idea?” an interview podcast highlighting Sloan authors and scholars, among others
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Radio
- Investigator Kara Miller
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To support the production and launch of “What’s the Big Idea?” an interview podcast highlighting Sloan authors and scholars, among others
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grantee: Vanderbilt University

amount: $54,545

city: Nashville, TN

year: 2025
To support the research and writing of Bin Baz’s World: Technology and the Rise of Everyday Salafism to be published by Harvard University Press in 2026
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Leor Halevi
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To support the research and writing of Bin Baz’s World: Technology and the Rise of Everyday Salafism to be published by Harvard University Press in 2026
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grantee: University of Wisconsin, Madison

amount: $752,572

city: Madison, WI

year: 2025
To support the institutionalization of an Open Source Programs Office at University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Open Source in Science
- Investigator Kyle Cranmer
Since 2020 the Sloan Foundation has been supporting the establishment of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within universities as a strategy to institutionalize support for open source software in the research enterprise. In 2023, Sloan provided two years of funding to six institutions, including the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to establish OSPOs, to launch a set of pilot activities to determine the most promising strategies for supporting open source software development on their respective campuses, and to develop a clear vision for a long-term institutional support ecosystem for open source. This grant provides an additional two years of support to the University of Wisconsin, Madison OSPO, led by physicist Kyle Cranmer, to build on early successes and bridge to independent sustainability beyond Sloan funding.

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To support the institutionalization of an Open Source Programs Office at University of Wisconsin, Madison
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grantee: Women Make Movies Inc.

amount: $70,000

city: New York, NY

year: 2025
To support the 2025 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers through a Sloan Buzzies Award for YouTube and TikTok and a panel on science digital content
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program YouTube and TikTok
- Investigator Adam Kirkham
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To support the 2025 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers through a Sloan Buzzies Award for YouTube and TikTok and a panel on science digital content
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grantee: Fisk University

amount: $24,998

city: Nashville, TN

year: 2025
To complete data analysis and disseminate findings of a study examining the factors and experiences that inform Black students’ entry into computational careers
- Program Higher Education
- Investigator Qingxia Li
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To complete data analysis and disseminate findings of a study examining the factors and experiences that inform Black students’ entry into computational careers
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grantee: Elizabeth Kolbert

amount: $30,500

city: Williamstown, MA

year: 2025
To support the research and writing of Under the Glacier: How Ice Made Our World and Will Determine Its Future to be published by Random House in 2026
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Elizabeth Kolbert
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To support the research and writing of Under the Glacier: How Ice Made Our World and Will Determine Its Future to be published by Random House in 2026
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grantee: University of Mississippi

amount: $54,506

city: University, MS

year: 2025
To support the research and writing of "Hive Minds: Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Intelligence of Nature" to be published by Henry Holt & Company in 2026
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Vanessa Gregory
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To support the research and writing of "Hive Minds: Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Intelligence of Nature" to be published by Henry Holt & Company in 2026
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grantee: National Society of Black Physicists

amount: $249,983

city: Washington, DC

year: 2025
To support two meetings, a joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP), and a Student Leadership Development Summit organized by NSBP and NSHP
- Program Research
- Sub-program Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
- Investigator Stephen Roberson
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To support two meetings, a joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP), and a Student Leadership Development Summit organized by NSBP and NSHP
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