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: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

amount: $20,000

city: Cambridge, MA

year: 2015
To launch an active and diverse study group on behavioral macroeconomics
- Program Research
- Initiative Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED)
- Sub-program Economics
- Investigator Michael Woodford
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To launch an active and diverse study group on behavioral macroeconomics
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grantee: University College London

amount: $50,000

city: London, United Kingdom

year: 2015
To launch a carefully curated and edited blog that will make insights from microeconomic research more widely and popularly accessible
- Program Research
- Sub-program Economics
- Investigator Richard Blundell
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To launch a carefully curated and edited blog that will make insights from microeconomic research more widely and popularly accessible
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grantee: International Energy Program Evaluation Conference

amount: $20,000

city: Chatham, MA

year: 2015
To continue in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2016 IEPPEC Conference at no charge
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Charles Michaelis
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To continue in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2016 IEPPEC Conference at no charge
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grantee: Brave New Software

amount: $20,000

city: Los Angeles, CA

year: 2015
To develop a better understanding of the success and sustainability of selected Sloan-funded free/open source software projects
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Scholarly Communication
- Investigator James Vasile
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To develop a better understanding of the success and sustainability of selected Sloan-funded free/open source software projects
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grantee: The Graduate Center of The City University of New York

amount: $15,000

city: New York, NY

year: 2015
To support the development of the City University of New York Digital History Archive
- Program New York City Program
- Investigator Andrea Vasquez
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To support the development of the City University of New York Digital History Archive
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grantee: University of Pittsburgh

amount: $123,728

city: Pittsburgh, PA

year: 2015
To support the adoption of active curation platforms by Association for Computing Machinery publishing systems
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Scholarly Communication
- Investigator Bruce Childers
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To support the adoption of active curation platforms by Association for Computing Machinery publishing systems
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grantee: Stanford University

amount: $114,687

city: Stanford, CA

year: 2015
To explore to what extent health, job demands, and job exposures drive early disability and retirement events for workers in the manufacturing sector
- Program Research
- Sub-program Working Longer
- Investigator Mark Cullen
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To explore to what extent health, job demands, and job exposures drive early disability and retirement events for workers in the manufacturing sector
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grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science

amount: $105,258

city: Washington, DC

year: 2015
To support a workshop of ~30 research university teams to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of URM graduate students in STEM by studying strategies employed by peer institutions in the context of the team’s own challenges and aims
- Program Higher Education
- Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
- Investigator Shirley Malcom
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To support a workshop of ~30 research university teams to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of URM graduate students in STEM by studying strategies employed by peer institutions in the context of the team’s own challenges and aims
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grantee: WNET

amount: $100,000

city: New York, NY

year: 2015
To produce at least three annual Sloan-related science, technology, and economics themed episodes of The Open Mind for two years and to support enhanced outreach and promotion for the show to a national PBS audience
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Alexander Heffner
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To produce at least three annual Sloan-related science, technology, and economics themed episodes of The Open Mind for two years and to support enhanced outreach and promotion for the show to a national PBS audience
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grantee: Santa Fe Institute

amount: $15,000

city: Santa Fe, NM

year: 2015
To organize a workshop addressing the technological, social, and industrial dynamics for innovation and transition in electric power production and delivery
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Cristopher Moore
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To organize a workshop addressing the technological, social, and industrial dynamics for innovation and transition in electric power production and delivery
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