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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3,474 Grants

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Amount

City

Year

grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

amount: $20,000

city: Cambridge, MA

year: 2018
Support for the preliminary stages of a MIT Press book and film project on women in STEM fields and the seminal 1999 report “A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT.”
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program New Media
- Investigator Amy Brand
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Support for the preliminary stages of a MIT Press book and film project on women in STEM fields and the seminal 1999 report “A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT.”
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grantee: University of Pennsylvania

amount: $19,146

city: Philadelphia, PA

year: 2018
To analyze the economics of labor markets for information technology workers using administrative datasets
- Program Research
- Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
- Sub-program Economics
- Investigator Prasanna Tambe
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To analyze the economics of labor markets for information technology workers using administrative datasets
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grantee: Social Science Research Council

amount: $125,000

city: New York, NY

year: 2017
To pilot a small grants program establishing the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) as a grant-making organization to incentivize Sloan Scholar participation, to support early academic-career Sloan graduates, and to create opportunities for informal mentoring
- Program Higher Education
- Investigator Ron Kassimir
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To pilot a small grants program establishing the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) as a grant-making organization to incentivize Sloan Scholar participation, to support early academic-career Sloan graduates, and to create opportunities for informal mentoring
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grantee: John M. Johnson Jr.

amount: $38,517

city: Ojai, CA

year: 2017
To support a book about the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky and the search for dark matter
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator John Johnson
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To support a book about the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky and the search for dark matter
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grantee: University of California, Berkeley

amount: $20,000

city: Berkeley, CA

year: 2017
To support the first paper in a two-year, three-paper research agenda on “The Equilibrium and Spillover Effects of Working Longer: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Variation in Early Retirement Incentives”
- Program Research
- Sub-program Working Longer
- Investigator Benjamin Schoefer
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To support the first paper in a two-year, three-paper research agenda on “The Equilibrium and Spillover Effects of Working Longer: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Variation in Early Retirement Incentives”
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grantee: University of California, Berkeley

amount: $30,000

city: Berkeley, CA

year: 2017
To extend comparative data analysis for studies of water damaged homes in NY and CA
- Program Research
- Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
- Investigator John Taylor
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To extend comparative data analysis for studies of water damaged homes in NY and CA
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grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

amount: $50,000

city: Cambridge, MA

year: 2017
To support up to four undergraduate students planning for PhD programs from the University of Puerto Rico system for a semester (Spring 2018) of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Program Higher Education
- Investigator Alan Grossman
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To support up to four undergraduate students planning for PhD programs from the University of Puerto Rico system for a semester (Spring 2018) of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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grantee: Montana State University, Bozeman

amount: $48,417

city: Bozeman, MT

year: 2017
To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Catherine Zabinski
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To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press
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grantee: Susan Hand Shetterly

amount: $22,500

city: Surry, ME

year: 2017
To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Susan Shetterly
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To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press
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grantee: Maura R. O'Connor

amount: $32,100

city: Brooklyn, NY

year: 2017
To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Maura O'Connor
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To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018
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