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: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $115,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To enable academic research on Nielsen’s commercial data about what consumers watch and buy

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

    To enable academic research on Nielsen’s commercial data about what consumers watch and buy

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  • grantee: FPF Education and Innovation Foundation
    amount: $125,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To survey corporations about best practices for sharing their administrative data with academic researchers

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Jules Polonetsky

    To survey corporations about best practices for sharing their administrative data with academic researchers

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $80,668
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2016

    To convene a conference of academic researchers and human resource practitioners to discuss practical ideas to apply emerging academic research to managing an aging workforce

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator John Shoven

    To convene a conference of academic researchers and human resource practitioners to discuss practical ideas to apply emerging academic research to managing an aging workforce

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  • grantee: Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Inc.
    amount: $25,000
    city: Hedgesville, WV
    year: 2016

    To sponsor four sessions at the 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists to advance the effective use of traditional, emerging and interactive media to inform public conversation about science

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Rosalind Reid

    To sponsor four sessions at the 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists to advance the effective use of traditional, emerging and interactive media to inform public conversation about science

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  • grantee: Yeshiva University
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support collaboration between mathematicians from the US and Europe on the study of finite and infinite dimensional dynamical systems

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Marian Gidea

    To support collaboration between mathematicians from the US and Europe on the study of finite and infinite dimensional dynamical systems

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2016

    To advance research on belief-based utility in behavioral economics by holding a conference for leading economists and psychologists

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Russell Golman

    To advance research on belief-based utility in behavioral economics by holding a conference for leading economists and psychologists

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $19,967
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2016

    To support a workshop for researchers and practitioners on how social science experiments can serve the public interest

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Adam Levine

    To support a workshop for researchers and practitioners on how social science experiments can serve the public interest

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  • grantee: St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge
    amount: $55,000
    city: Cambridge, United Kingdom
    year: 2016

    To write the first history of deep carbon science, a book titled “Carbon from Crust to Core”

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Simon Mitton

    To write the first history of deep carbon science, a book titled “Carbon from Crust to Core”

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  • grantee: Northwestern University
    amount: $40,481
    city: Evanston, IL
    year: 2016

    To examine how surface finishes impact the indoor microbiome and their collection of antibiotic resistant genes

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Erica Hartmann

    To examine how surface finishes impact the indoor microbiome and their collection of antibiotic resistant genes

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  • grantee: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
    amount: $124,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support two sessions of the Cooper Union STEM Saturdays program to engage talented at risk NYC high school students in engineering activities

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator George Delagrammatikas

    To support two sessions of the Cooper Union STEM Saturdays program to engage talented at risk NYC high school students in engineering activities

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