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: WGBH Educational Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2023

    To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Julia Cort

    To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia

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  • grantee: Princeton University
    amount: $519,166
    city: Princeton, NJ
    year: 2023

    To improve how political economy insights are represented in integrated assessment models and deepen collaboration between energy system modelers and social scientists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Wei Peng

    To improve how political economy insights are represented in integrated assessment models and deepen collaboration between energy system modelers and social scientists

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  • grantee: University of Pittsburgh
    amount: $249,166
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2023

    To build a networked improvement community that serves to enact systemic change with a focus on equitable participation, experiences and outcomes in the physical sciences and engineering

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Amanda Godley

    To build a networked improvement community that serves to enact systemic change with a focus on equitable participation, experiences and outcomes in the physical sciences and engineering

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  • grantee: The Ohio State University
    amount: $250,000
    city: Columbus, OH
    year: 2023

    To create a successful systemic change model for recruiting, enrolling, and retaining students in STEM graduate programs, closing equity gaps in retention and graduation

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Mary Stromberger

    To create a successful systemic change model for recruiting, enrolling, and retaining students in STEM graduate programs, closing equity gaps in retention and graduation

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  • grantee: Purdue University
    amount: $248,205
    city: West Lafayette, IN
    year: 2023

    To create a systemic change plan tailored to eight STEM departments across Purdue, facilitate community-building and program development across colleges, and engage in external learning opportunities

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Peristera Paschou

    To create a systemic change plan tailored to eight STEM departments across Purdue, facilitate community-building and program development across colleges, and engage in external learning opportunities

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  • grantee: Georgetown University
    amount: $249,333
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To develop and share scalable methods for identifying, classifying, and analyzing evidence about emerging technologies

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Dewey Murdick

    To develop and share scalable methods for identifying, classifying, and analyzing evidence about emerging technologies

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  • grantee: University of California, San Diego
    amount: $244,965
    city: La Jolla, CA
    year: 2023

    To conduct experiments exploring the role of frictions and mental gaps in explaining non-optimal behaviors

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Emanuel Vespa

    To conduct experiments exploring the role of frictions and mental gaps in explaining non-optimal behaviors

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  • grantee: Howard University
    amount: $240,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To create an internship program that provides research experiences for undergraduates in the Quantum Biology Laboratory at Howard University

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Philip Kurian

    To create an internship program that provides research experiences for undergraduates in the Quantum Biology Laboratory at Howard University

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  • grantee: Southern Methodist University
    amount: $304,681
    city: Dallas, TX
    year: 2023

    To examine how just energy transitions will affect Indigenous tribal nations in the Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Monika Ehrman

    To examine how just energy transitions will affect Indigenous tribal nations in the Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States

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  • grantee: National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
    amount: $1,575,439
    city: Alexandria, VA
    year: 2023

    To provide administrative services, community engagement activities, and research and assessment support for Sloan UCEM, SIGP, and SCSC programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Carmen Sidbury

    Funds from this grant support the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) in its role as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s administrative partner for the University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM), Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP), and Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) signature initiatives. NACME provides grants management, scholarship disbursement, and programmatic design and oversight for UCEM and SIGP campuses, including high-touch interaction with Sloan Scholars and program grantees. NACME also collects, compiles, and analyzes program data, including data on Sloan Scholar demographics, recruitment, retention, and graduation outcomes. Other grant funds support community engagement activities, including the design and oversight of programming offered at the annual SREB Institute on Teaching and Mentoring and coordinated engagement with the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network.

    To provide administrative services, community engagement activities, and research and assessment support for Sloan UCEM, SIGP, and SCSC programs

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