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: Electronic Frontier Foundation
    amount: $236,448
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2025

    To support ten new episodes of “How to Fix the Internet,” an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Cindy Cohn

    To support ten new episodes of “How to Fix the Internet,” an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

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  • grantee: Community Initiatives
    amount: $36,173
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2025

    To provide travel and registration scholarships for the 2025 Academic Data Science Alliance Leadership Summit

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Micaela Parker

    To provide travel and registration scholarships for the 2025 Academic Data Science Alliance Leadership Summit

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  • grantee: Montana State University
    amount: $249,636
    city: Bozeman, MT
    year: 2025

    To build capacity for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) by providing pathways to STEM graduate degrees for TCU faculty and developing a TCU teaching program for MSU graduate students

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Deborah Haynes

    To build capacity for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) by providing pathways to STEM graduate degrees for TCU faculty and developing a TCU teaching program for MSU graduate students

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  • grantee: Goodman Theatre
    amount: $250,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2025

    To support the production of a year-long presentation of Theater of the Mind in Chicago

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Kate Welham

    To support the production of a year-long presentation of Theater of the Mind in Chicago

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  • grantee: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    amount: $163,567
    city: Charlotte, NC
    year: 2025

    To study the effect of immersive Virtual Reality on group entitativity in scientific collaborations

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scientific Collaboration
    • Investigator Anita Blanchard

    To study the effect of immersive Virtual Reality on group entitativity in scientific collaborations

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2025

    To broaden the teaching of Behavioral Public Economics concepts to graduate students by holding an inclusive boot camp

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Douglas Bernheim

    To broaden the teaching of Behavioral Public Economics concepts to graduate students by holding an inclusive boot camp

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $246,480
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To support program administration for Sloan's graduate scholarship initiatives

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Veronica Zepeda

    To support program administration for Sloan's graduate scholarship initiatives

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

    To support the 2025 Quantum Biology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Louie Slocombe

    To support the 2025 Quantum Biology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar

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  • grantee: Fund for the City of New York
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To develop and pilot an initiative to train and empower a diverse pipeline of public interest technologists in New York City

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Noel Hidalgo

    To develop and pilot an initiative to train and empower a diverse pipeline of public interest technologists in New York City

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $249,995
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To investigate causes and consequences of the innovation gender gap using historical data about unexpected events

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program History of Science and Technology
    • Investigator Petra Moser

    To investigate causes and consequences of the innovation gender gap using historical data about unexpected events

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