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: Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scientific Collaboration
    • Investigator Camille Gamboa

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

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  • grantee: Public Radio News Directors Inc. DBA Public Media Journalists Association
    amount: $179,381
    city: Sturgis, SD
    year: 2024

    To support science reporting and leadership training, networking opportunities, and 16-week subsidized internships for 10 journalism students from underrepresented communities

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Special Initiatives
    • Investigator Christine Diers

    To support science reporting and leadership training, networking opportunities, and 16-week subsidized internships for 10 journalism students from underrepresented communities

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  • grantee: Howard University
    amount: $249,274
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To strengthen graduate pathways to economics through the development of new coursework, networking, and mentorship opportunities for HBCU undergraduates

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator LaTanya Brown-Robertson

    To strengthen graduate pathways to economics through the development of new coursework, networking, and mentorship opportunities for HBCU undergraduates

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  • grantee: Nnamdi Azikiwe University
    amount: $99,350
    city: Awka, Nigeria
    year: 2024

    To measure the rates of biologically relevant chemical reactions involving the transfer of a phosphoryl group from a phosphate ester to a nucleophile, in order to evaluate the effect of desolvation on the reaction rates

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Ikenna Onyido

    To measure the rates of biologically relevant chemical reactions involving the transfer of a phosphoryl group from a phosphate ester to a nucleophile, in order to evaluate the effect of desolvation on the reaction rates

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  • grantee: Roxanne Khamsi
    amount: $50,200
    city: Montreal, Canada
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of Evolution Inside Us, to be published by Riverhead in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Roxanne Khamsi

    To support the research and writing of Evolution Inside Us, to be published by Riverhead in 2025

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  • grantee: Morgan State University
    amount: $75,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2024

    To develop a cross-institutional research and curricular partnership between Morgan State University and the University at Buffalo centered around equitable and inclusive AI

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kofi Nyarko

    To develop a cross-institutional research and curricular partnership between Morgan State University and the University at Buffalo centered around equitable and inclusive AI

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  • grantee: The Open Notebook, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Madison, WI
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of Foundations of Science Writing to be published by University of Chicago Press in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Siri Carpenter

    To support the research and writing of Foundations of Science Writing to be published by University of Chicago Press in 2026

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $249,708
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2024

    To measure the impact of AI innovation and diffusion on the productivity, output, and employment growth of firms

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Lee Branstetter

    To measure the impact of AI innovation and diffusion on the productivity, output, and employment growth of firms

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  • grantee: University of Toronto
    amount: $49,512
    city: Toronto, Canada
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground to be published by MIT Press in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Edward Jones-Imhotep

    To support the research and writing of The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground to be published by MIT Press in 2026

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  • grantee: St. Edward's University
    amount: $74,994
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2024

    To facilitate a partnership between St. Edward’s University and Texas State University that will identify and reduce barriers to STEM graduate education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Jonathan Hodge

    To facilitate a partnership between St. Edward’s University and Texas State University that will identify and reduce barriers to STEM graduate education

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