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: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $124,996
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To recruit, train, and celebrate US teams to compete in the Pan-African and Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiads

    • Program
    • Investigator Florence Fasanelli

    To recruit, train, and celebrate US teams to compete in the Pan-African and Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiads

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  • grantee: University of British Columbia
    amount: $20,000
    city: Vancouver, BC, Canada
    year: 2012

    To accelerate the rate of exploration, adaptation and effective integration of methods of instruction that better support improved student learning, with a focus on undergraduate STEM education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lorne Whitehead

    To accelerate the rate of exploration, adaptation and effective integration of methods of instruction that better support improved student learning, with a focus on undergraduate STEM education

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  • grantee: The Wolfram Foundation
    amount: $123,453
    city: Champaign, IL
    year: 2012

    To prototype part of a Mathematical Heritage Library by constructing and demonstrating a computable database concerned with continued fractions

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Michael Trott

    To prototype part of a Mathematical Heritage Library by constructing and demonstrating a computable database concerned with continued fractions

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  • grantee: Institute for New Economic Thinking
    amount: $24,300
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2012

    To support the participation of students in a major international conference on new economic thinking

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Robert Johnson

    To support the participation of students in a major international conference on new economic thinking

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  • grantee: Benbough Operating Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2012

    Support for a branded DPLA reception and a keynote address that will expose the community of digital cultural heritage professionals to the DPLA project at the WebWise conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Rich Cherry

    Support for a branded DPLA reception and a keynote address that will expose the community of digital cultural heritage professionals to the DPLA project at the WebWise conference

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  • grantee: National Geographic Society
    amount: $125,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To design a digital and media outreach plan around James Cameron's deep dive to the Marianna Trenches

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Terry Garcia

    To design a digital and media outreach plan around James Cameron's deep dive to the Marianna Trenches

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  • grantee: University of California, San Diego
    amount: $25,000
    city: La Jolla, CA
    year: 2012

    To provide partial support for the 2012 Sloan-Swartz Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Terrence Sejnowski

    To provide partial support for the 2012 Sloan-Swartz Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

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  • grantee: American Society for Microbiology
    amount: $81,905
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To support a colloquium on the microbiology of the drinking water distribution system

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Ann Reid

    To support a colloquium on the microbiology of the drinking water distribution system

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  • grantee: Mozilla Foundation
    amount: $124,625
    city: Mountain View, CA
    year: 2012

    To prototype online resources to teach software engineering best practices to scientists, and to explore and develop models for training within academic institutions

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Matthew Thompson

    To prototype online resources to teach software engineering best practices to scientists, and to explore and develop models for training within academic institutions

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $19,972
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To identify key data sources and plan two conferences on a future research agenda for student learning, persistence, and success, with a special focus on underrepresented minorities and women, in STEM postsecondary education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Michael Feuer

    To identify key data sources and plan two conferences on a future research agenda for student learning, persistence, and success, with a special focus on underrepresented minorities and women, in STEM postsecondary education

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