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: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    amount: $115,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the 4-D workshop on deep-time, data-driven discovery and the evolution of earth

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Robert Hazen

    To provide partial support for the 4-D workshop on deep-time, data-driven discovery and the evolution of earth

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  • grantee: National Press Foundation
    amount: $106,553
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To provide a four-day training in the public understanding of working longer to a set of 20 journalists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Sandy Johnson

    To provide a four-day training in the public understanding of working longer to a set of 20 journalists

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  • grantee: Center for Economic and Policy Research
    amount: $15,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To analyze the Contingent Work Supplements (CWS) in order to better understand the incidence of nonstandard work arrangements among varying demographic groups and to assess changes found between 1995-2017

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Eileen Appelbaum

    To analyze the Contingent Work Supplements (CWS) in order to better understand the incidence of nonstandard work arrangements among varying demographic groups and to assess changes found between 1995-2017

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $57,524
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by characterizing profiles of households who fall into financing coverage gaps for energy efficiency programs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tony Reames

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by characterizing profiles of households who fall into financing coverage gaps for energy efficiency programs

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  • grantee: Appalachian State University
    amount: $213,254
    city: Boone, NC
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining how behavioral nudges in the form of electronic notifications impact electricity consumption and energy efficiency program participation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tanga Mohr

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining how behavioral nudges in the form of electronic notifications impact electricity consumption and energy efficiency program participation

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $250,000
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining the relationship between electricity rate structures and consumer investments in energy efficient appliances

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator David Rapson

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining the relationship between electricity rate structures and consumer investments in energy efficient appliances

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $222,289
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by estimating the impacts of an industrial energy efficiency program on electricity use, water use, and welfare in the agricultural sector

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Maximilian Auffhammer

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by estimating the impacts of an industrial energy efficiency program on electricity use, water use, and welfare in the agricultural sector

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $256,933
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by studying how changing default participation options in a commercial energy efficiency program impacts program enrollment and energy use

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Katrina Jessoe

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by studying how changing default participation options in a commercial energy efficiency program impacts program enrollment and energy use

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To showcase 10 high-profile new media science projects from the U.S. at the 2017 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Barbara Ghammashi

    To showcase 10 high-profile new media science projects from the U.S. at the 2017 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers

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  • grantee: Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To promote unrepresented minorities within the investment management industry by maximizing the pipeline of diversity into finance and top business sectors and to ensure that diverse talent is identified early and provided with the access, resources, and professional development needed to succeed

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Julian Johnson

    To promote unrepresented minorities within the investment management industry by maximizing the pipeline of diversity into finance and top business sectors and to ensure that diverse talent is identified early and provided with the access, resources, and professional development needed to succeed

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