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: Tides Foundation
    amount: $55,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2012

    For a planning grant to identify and expand the availability of content from libraries in developing countries into DPLA

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Rima Kupryte

    For a planning grant to identify and expand the availability of content from libraries in developing countries into DPLA

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  • grantee: Dartmouth College
    amount: $103,500
    city: Hanover, NH
    year: 2012

    To study the ownership structures multinational firms establish, including documentation of their types, frequencies, and relative advantages

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Leslie Robinson

    To study the ownership structures multinational firms establish, including documentation of their types, frequencies, and relative advantages

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $124,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2012

    To develop techniques for discovering inter company relationships by performing text analysis and natural language processing on unstructured text in SEC disclosure reports

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Noah Smith

    To develop techniques for discovering inter company relationships by performing text analysis and natural language processing on unstructured text in SEC disclosure reports

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  • grantee: Open Knowledge Foundation
    amount: $79,350
    city: Cambridge, United Kingdom
    year: 2012

    To prototype interoperability between citizen science platforms

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Rufus Pollock

    To prototype interoperability between citizen science platforms

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  • grantee: University of Oklahoma
    amount: $13,162
    city: Norman, OK
    year: 2012

    To support a meeting to explore digital models for the Isis history of science bibliography

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Stephen Weldon

    To support a meeting to explore digital models for the Isis history of science bibliography

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  • grantee: Kansas University Endowment Association
    amount: $6,500
    city: Lawrence, KS
    year: 2012

    To partially support the 2013 North American DDI conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Larry Hoyle

    To partially support the 2013 North American DDI conference

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $16,500
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To provide partial support for communication materials about the benefits of basic research

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Nancy Huddleston

    To provide partial support for communication materials about the benefits of basic research

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  • grantee: Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: Brookline, MA
    year: 2012

    To support Coolidge Corner Theatre, which leads the Foundation's Science on Screen initiative, in their transition to digital projection

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Denise Kasell

    To support Coolidge Corner Theatre, which leads the Foundation's Science on Screen initiative, in their transition to digital projection

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  • grantee: Duke University
    amount: $66,371
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2012

    To support a meeting on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Craig McClain

    To support a meeting on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment

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  • grantee: University of California, San Diego
    amount: $113,940
    city: La Jolla, CA
    year: 2012

    To study training and innovation in the science and engineering workforce

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator John Skrentny

    To study training and innovation in the science and engineering workforce

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