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: The University of Texas at Austin
    amount: $250,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2025

    To support the scoping and definition of a system-wide OSPO for the University of Texas System

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Jennifer Schopf

    To support the scoping and definition of a system-wide OSPO for the University of Texas System

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about menopause and women’s health

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Sarah Schenk

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about menopause and women’s health

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  • grantee: Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
    amount: $249,984
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2025

    To provide opportunities for U.S. mathematicians to conduct collaborative research on topics at the forefront of the mathematical and statistical sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Tatiana Toro

    To provide opportunities for U.S. mathematicians to conduct collaborative research on topics at the forefront of the mathematical and statistical sciences

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $40,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2025

    To support the "2025 Summer School on Quantum Sensing and Precision Science" at Johns Hopkins University

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
    • Investigator David Kaplan

    To support the "2025 Summer School on Quantum Sensing and Precision Science" at Johns Hopkins University

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  • grantee: Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Hedgesville, WV
    year: 2025

    To support the convening of hundreds of nonpartisan science journalists at ScienceWriters2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Meaghan Parker

    To support the convening of hundreds of nonpartisan science journalists at ScienceWriters2025

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $49,995
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To identify unfinished economics research projects of enough public value to justify supporting them through a rescue funding mechanism

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Fredrik Palm

    To identify unfinished economics research projects of enough public value to justify supporting them through a rescue funding mechanism

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To deliver a compelling and data-driven account of the state of U.S. science that reaches a broad audience

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Sarah Rovito

    To deliver a compelling and data-driven account of the state of U.S. science that reaches a broad audience

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  • grantee: Open Science Hardware Foundation
    amount: $249,559
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2025

    To support institutional embedding and programmatic activities of the Open Science Hardware Foundation

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Shannon Dosemagen

    To support institutional embedding and programmatic activities of the Open Science Hardware Foundation

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  • grantee: University of California, Merced
    amount: $150,000
    city: Merced, CA
    year: 2025

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Laura Hamilton

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

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  • grantee: Industrial Organizational Society, Inc.
    amount: $45,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2025

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Marc Rysman

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

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