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: Institute for Progress
    amount: $248,730
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To create a platform for engagement between US federal agencies and the science of science research community

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Caleb Watney

    To create a platform for engagement between US federal agencies and the science of science research community

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  • grantee: The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To support a regional Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics in January 2024

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Joshua Brumberg

    To support a regional Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics in January 2024

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To stimulate open scholarship adoption in networks that have traditionally faced barriers to participation

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Heather Joseph

    To stimulate open scholarship adoption in networks that have traditionally faced barriers to participation

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  • grantee: University of California, Los Angeles
    amount: $100,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2023

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Jaimie Stewart

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

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  • grantee: The New York Academy of Medicine
    amount: $47,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Elana Kieffer

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

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  • grantee: California Institute of Technology
    amount: $200,000
    city: Pasadena, CA
    year: 2023

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
    • Investigator Nick Hutzler

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

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  • grantee: University of Cambridge
    amount: $250,000
    city: Cambridge, United Kingdom
    year: 2023

    To support the development of an international community of meso-economics researchers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Vasco Carvalho

    To support the development of an international community of meso-economics researchers

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $249,896
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2023

    To continue supporting a set of coordinated activities at the community, network, and policy layers to maximize the impact of open source and open source program offices in universities

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator G. Choudhury

    To continue supporting a set of coordinated activities at the community, network, and policy layers to maximize the impact of open source and open source program offices in universities

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  • grantee: Ithaka Harbors Inc
    amount: $245,511
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To assess the effectiveness of university Open Source Program Offices in facilitating development and maintenance of open source software in research

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Dylan Ruediger

    To assess the effectiveness of university Open Source Program Offices in facilitating development and maintenance of open source software in research

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  • grantee: University of Toronto
    amount: $125,000
    city: Toronto, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Bree McEwan

    To support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies

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