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: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To organize a workshop that reviews scientific progress in recent years on the social cost of carbon and identifies areas for future research opportunities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Brian Prest

    To organize a workshop that reviews scientific progress in recent years on the social cost of carbon and identifies areas for future research opportunities

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  • grantee: Gordon Research Conferences
    amount: $15,000
    city: West Kingston, RI
    year: 2025

    To support the 2025 Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Rein Ulijn

    To support the 2025 Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

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  • grantee: University of Arizona
    amount: $49,769
    city: Tucson, AZ
    year: 2025

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Beth Mitchneck

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $250,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To continue supporting matchmaking efforts between government agencies and members of civic society in New York City

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Fredrik Palm

    To continue supporting matchmaking efforts between government agencies and members of civic society in New York City

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  • grantee: Astrophysical Research Consortium
    amount: $90,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2025

    To produce planetarium and science-on-a-sphere shows for the general public describing the hardware, observations, and science of SDSS-V

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Juna Kollmeier

    To produce planetarium and science-on-a-sphere shows for the general public describing the hardware, observations, and science of SDSS-V

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  • grantee: Lost Women of Science Initiative, Inc.
    amount: $246,676
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2025

    To research, produce, and release 10 episodes of "Lost Women of Science" to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Amy Scharf

    To research, produce, and release 10 episodes of "Lost Women of Science" to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $247,763
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2025

    To analyze the local economic effects of incentive packages that lure large new facilities to a particular place

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Cailin Slattery

    To analyze the local economic effects of incentive packages that lure large new facilities to a particular place

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $159,804
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To organize an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research conference on domestic critical minerals and metals development in Washington, DC, with a focus on convening teams supported through an Open Call for Proposals

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Scott Odell

    To organize an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research conference on domestic critical minerals and metals development in Washington, DC, with a focus on convening teams supported through an Open Call for Proposals

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $49,961
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2025

    To develop an LLM-based web application that allows instructors to design reading assignments in science college courses

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative AI in Science
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Bodong Chen

    To develop an LLM-based web application that allows instructors to design reading assignments in science college courses

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  • grantee: Council on Foreign Relations
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To organize a workshop focused on financing “missing middle” investment opportunities to scale emerging energy technologies

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Varun Sivaram

    To organize a workshop focused on financing “missing middle” investment opportunities to scale emerging energy technologies

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