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: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    amount: $16,275
    city: Troy, NY
    year: 2016

    To partially sponsor the public activities of the 2016 International Data Week

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Mark Parsons

    To partially sponsor the public activities of the 2016 International Data Week

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  • grantee: University of Illinois
    amount: $20,000
    city: Urbana, IL
    year: 2016

    To partially fund the 2016 Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences meeting

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Daniel Katz

    To partially fund the 2016 Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences meeting

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  • grantee: Princeton University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Princeton, NJ
    year: 2016

    To develop and test open source software to enable an open review process for academic books

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Matthew Salganik

    To develop and test open source software to enable an open review process for academic books

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  • grantee: American Society for Engineering Education
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To convene a planning meeting and small conference catalyzing activities within the Engineering Transitions to Inclusive and Diverse Environments (E-TIDE) Alliance

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Norman Fortenberry

    To convene a planning meeting and small conference catalyzing activities within the Engineering Transitions to Inclusive and Diverse Environments (E-TIDE) Alliance

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  • grantee: Colorado State University Foundation
    amount: $54,044
    city: Fort Collins, CO
    year: 2016

    To support an indoor chemistry data needs workshop

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Delphine Farmer

    To support an indoor chemistry data needs workshop

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $10,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2016

    To partially support the 2016 IEEE eScience Conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Alexander Szalay

    To partially support the 2016 IEEE eScience Conference

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  • grantee: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
    amount: $20,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2016

    To support a workshop and related activities on the rescue of at-risk data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Matthew Mayernik

    To support a workshop and related activities on the rescue of at-risk data

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $15,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2016

    To support a conference on the use of administrative data in social science research

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Dennis Culhane

    To support a conference on the use of administrative data in social science research

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $110,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To provide partial support for a study to gather, analyze, and disseminate the evidence on the most promising retention and completion strategies and practices at US minority-serving institutions (MSIs)

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Thomas Rudin

    To provide partial support for a study to gather, analyze, and disseminate the evidence on the most promising retention and completion strategies and practices at US minority-serving institutions (MSIs)

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  • grantee: DataKind
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To pilot continued sustainability models for novel machine learning and analytical solutions to reduce pedestrian deaths in New York City and other US cities

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Julia Rhodes Davis

    To pilot continued sustainability models for novel machine learning and analytical solutions to reduce pedestrian deaths in New York City and other US cities

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