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 Southern California
    amount: $99,284
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2015

    To hold a workshop to enhance African Americans’ participation in engineering education and the profession using a strengths-based, pathway approach

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator John Slaughter

    To hold a workshop to enhance African Americans’ participation in engineering education and the profession using a strengths-based, pathway approach

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $99,613
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To examine the microbial profiles of Amerindian homes in isolated settings with and without mestizo influence

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Maria Dominguez-Bello

    To examine the microbial profiles of Amerindian homes in isolated settings with and without mestizo influence

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  • grantee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    amount: $100,395
    city: Troy, NY
    year: 2015

    To accelerate biophysical research in the Deep Life community of the Deep Carbon Observatory with a workshop and related development of a microscopy chamber capable of withstanding high pressure

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Catherine Royer

    To accelerate biophysical research in the Deep Life community of the Deep Carbon Observatory with a workshop and related development of a microscopy chamber capable of withstanding high pressure

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  • grantee: The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc.
    amount: $27,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To develop a plan for a next-generation CUNY Institutional Repository

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Matthew Gold

    To develop a plan for a next-generation CUNY Institutional Repository

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  • grantee: American Council on Education
    amount: $122,739
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To support a national conference to identify, catalog, and disseminate generalizable principles, strategies, interventions, and tools that can be modified and used to assist senior faculty as they begin to transition to retirement

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Jean McLaughlin

    To support a national conference to identify, catalog, and disseminate generalizable principles, strategies, interventions, and tools that can be modified and used to assist senior faculty as they begin to transition to retirement

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  • grantee: Manhattan Theatre Club
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    Production support for Manhattan Theatre Club's staging of Nick Payne's science-themed Incognito 

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Elizabeth Rothman

    Production support for Manhattan Theatre Club's staging of Nick Payne's science-themed Incognito 

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  • grantee: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
    amount: $30,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To participate with a consortium of fellow funders in developing a Theory of Foundation initiative

    • Program
    • Investigator Melissa Berman

    To participate with a consortium of fellow funders in developing a Theory of Foundation initiative

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $180,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through Sloan membership in the Science Philanthropy Alliance

    • Program
    • Investigator Bruce Boyd

    To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through Sloan membership in the Science Philanthropy Alliance

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  • grantee: University of Washington
    amount: $36,500
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2015

    To support the incorporation of Optical Character Recognition tools into a citizen science data transcription platform

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Kevin Wood

    To support the incorporation of Optical Character Recognition tools into a citizen science data transcription platform

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  • grantee: Boston Symphony Orchestra
    amount: $20,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2015

    To add streaming audio capabilities to the HENRY open-source performing arts research portal

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Bridget Carr

    To add streaming audio capabilities to the HENRY open-source performing arts research portal

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