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 California at Irvine
    amount: $25,000
    city: Irvine, CA
    year: 2025

    To complete data analysis and dissemination on a project examining STEM undergraduate research experiences at an HSI and emerging HSI

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Katherine Garcia

    To complete data analysis and dissemination on a project examining STEM undergraduate research experiences at an HSI and emerging HSI

    More
  • grantee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    amount: $23,750
    city: Lexington, KY
    year: 2025

    To complete a study on how to improve postdoctoral training and entry to the professoriate for populations underrepresented in STEM

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Sylvia Mendez

    To complete a study on how to improve postdoctoral training and entry to the professoriate for populations underrepresented in STEM

    More
  • grantee: Morgan State University
    amount: $24,930
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2025

    To complete a study on how STEM faculty beliefs, classroom culture, and teaching practices at HBCUs impact students’ academic experiences, motivation, and persistence

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Afiya Fredericks

    To complete a study on how STEM faculty beliefs, classroom culture, and teaching practices at HBCUs impact students’ academic experiences, motivation, and persistence

    More
  • grantee: Niskanen Center
    amount: $132,912
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To develop and test methods of estimating the “marginal value of public debt” for use in analyzing the social costs and benefits of programmatic spending proposals

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Alex Mechanick

    To develop and test methods of estimating the “marginal value of public debt” for use in analyzing the social costs and benefits of programmatic spending proposals

    More
  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $19,187
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2025

    To improve the validity of survey data that empowers the American professoriate to tell the most resonant story about why diversity matters in the academy and, by extension, our society

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Waldo Johnson

    To improve the validity of survey data that empowers the American professoriate to tell the most resonant story about why diversity matters in the academy and, by extension, our society

    More
  • grantee: University of Cincinnati
    amount: $248,924
    city: Cincinnati, OH
    year: 2025

    To support a postdoctoral fellowship on Metascience & AI with a specific interest in assessing the novelty and adoption of AI methods in astronomy

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative AI in Science
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Siyu Yao

    To support a postdoctoral fellowship on Metascience & AI with a specific interest in assessing the novelty and adoption of AI methods in astronomy

    More
  • grantee: Washington University in St. Louis
    amount: $24,252
    city: St. Louis, MO
    year: 2025

    To complete a study on bridging academic, social, and psychological wellbeing among Black college women to increase STEM retention

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Seanna Leath

    To complete a study on bridging academic, social, and psychological wellbeing among Black college women to increase STEM retention

    More
  • grantee: Dan Fagin
    amount: $35,000
    city: Sea Cliff, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Monarchy: A Butterfly and the Future of Life to be published by Random House in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Dan Fagin

    To support the research and writing of Monarchy: A Butterfly and the Future of Life to be published by Random House in 2026

    More
  • grantee: Daniela Hernandez
    amount: $56,050
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "Quantum Lives: The New Science of Personal Transformation" to be published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Daniela Hernandez

    To support the research and writing of "Quantum Lives: The New Science of Personal Transformation" to be published by W.W. Norton

    More
  • grantee: Santa Fe Institute
    amount: $250,000
    city: Santa Fe, NM
    year: 2025

    To support additional feature development for the ARCH platform for virtual collaboration of academic communities

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scientific Collaboration
    • Investigator William Tracy

    To support additional feature development for the ARCH platform for virtual collaboration of academic communities

    More
We use cookies to analyze our traffic. Please decide if you are willing to accept cookies from our website.