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: University of Tennessee
    amount: $26,364
    city: Knoxville, TN
    year: 2015

    To support the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference providing early-career minority mathematicians with enhanced understanding of their field, networking with peers, and interactions with senior researchers

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kelly Sturner

    To support the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference providing early-career minority mathematicians with enhanced understanding of their field, networking with peers, and interactions with senior researchers

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $63,694
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To provide graduate students with the skills to produce and effectively use an annotated version of the primary literature in advanced undergraduate course

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Melissa McCartney

    To provide graduate students with the skills to produce and effectively use an annotated version of the primary literature in advanced undergraduate course

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  • grantee: GuideStar USA, Inc.
    amount: $10,000
    city: Williamsburg, VA
    year: 2015

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Beth Suarez

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: RAND Corporation
    amount: $20,000
    city: Santa Monica, CA
    year: 2015

    To promote research on behavioral economics and household finance by co-sponsoring the 7th annual RAND Forum on Behavioral Finance

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

    To promote research on behavioral economics and household finance by co-sponsoring the 7th annual RAND Forum on Behavioral Finance

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  • grantee: FPF Education and Innovation Foundation
    amount: $75,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To partially support a meeting on ethical review processes in corporate human subjects research settings

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Jules Polonetsky

    To partially support a meeting on ethical review processes in corporate human subjects research settings

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $10,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2015

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 2015 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Sacramento, CA

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator James Sweeney

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 2015 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Sacramento, CA

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jason Bordoff

    To continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues

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  • grantee: University of Washington
    amount: $19,975
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2015

    To support a workshop on the repair and maintenance of technological systems from a historical and sociological perspective

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Daniela Rosner

    To support a workshop on the repair and maintenance of technological systems from a historical and sociological perspective

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  • grantee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    amount: $49,724
    city: Piscataway, NJ
    year: 2015

    To determine how commonly emitted fungal Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) influence the growth and metabolism of other microbes in a shared indoor environment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Joan Bennett

    To determine how commonly emitted fungal Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) influence the growth and metabolism of other microbes in a shared indoor environment

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $75,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To assess the past and present capabilities of the U.S. nuclear energy innovation system

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Richard Lester

    To assess the past and present capabilities of the U.S. nuclear energy innovation system

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