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: Northwestern University
    amount: $77,947
    city: Evanston, IL
    year: 2013

    To support a landscape survey and workshop on data sharing from research using technological tools to study human behavior in digital environments

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Eszter Hargittai

    To support a landscape survey and workshop on data sharing from research using technological tools to study human behavior in digital environments

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  • grantee: Finance Flows, Inc
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    To establish a non-profit designed to launch and administer a 2 year fellowship work program re-employing older (50+) senior managers in multiple New York City metro area industries

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Joan Biermann

    To establish a non-profit designed to launch and administer a 2 year fellowship work program re-employing older (50+) senior managers in multiple New York City metro area industries

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  • grantee: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
    amount: $74,865
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To examine the need and value of establishing a robust network and communication among university-based STEM Education Centers to contribute to transforming undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Noah Finkelstein

    To examine the need and value of establishing a robust network and communication among university-based STEM Education Centers to contribute to transforming undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

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  • grantee: TIAA-CREF Institute
    amount: $104,650
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    To convene a select group of policymakers, think tanks, academic researchers, & press to consider two approaches, suggested by the National Academy of Sciences study, that address the economic challenges of an aging population-working longer & saving more

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Stephanie Bell-Rose

    To convene a select group of policymakers, think tanks, academic researchers, & press to consider two approaches, suggested by the National Academy of Sciences study, that address the economic challenges of an aging population-working longer & saving more

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  • grantee: Smithsonian Institution
    amount: $110,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To combine developing and existing Smithsonian resources in novel ways to investigate, document, and demonstrate a prototypical working model for managing the digital information lifecycle

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Robert Corrigan

    To combine developing and existing Smithsonian resources in novel ways to investigate, document, and demonstrate a prototypical working model for managing the digital information lifecycle

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  • grantee: Manhattan Theatre Club
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    For production support for Manhattan Theatre Club’s science-comedy The Explorers Club

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Annie MacRae

    For production support for Manhattan Theatre Club’s science-comedy The Explorers Club

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  • grantee: International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
    amount: $10,000
    city: Chatham, MA
    year: 2013

    To accelerate and advance the profession on energy evaluation through instilling an interest in and connections to professional evaluation for any program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Pierre Landry

    To accelerate and advance the profession on energy evaluation through instilling an interest in and connections to professional evaluation for any program

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  • grantee: Association of American Colleges and Universities
    amount: $31,606
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To host a workshop and distribute a sourcebook that will assist foundation leaders and practitioners to promote alignment between STEM classroom and laboratory practice and what we know about how undergraduates learn

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Linda Slakey

    To host a workshop and distribute a sourcebook that will assist foundation leaders and practitioners to promote alignment between STEM classroom and laboratory practice and what we know about how undergraduates learn

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  • grantee: Harvard Medical School
    amount: $125,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2013

    To test whether the pH of surfaces in built environments influences the composition of microbial communities that reside there

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Roberto Kolter

    To test whether the pH of surfaces in built environments influences the composition of microbial communities that reside there

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  • grantee: University of Pittsburgh
    amount: $33,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2013

    To determine the changes in the microbial ecology of a hospital hot water system caused by the introduction of a secondary disinfectant

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Kyle Bibby

    To determine the changes in the microbial ecology of a hospital hot water system caused by the introduction of a secondary disinfectant

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